Encyclopaedia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences,literature, History, Politics, and Biography, Brought Down to the Present Time; Including a Copious Collection of Original Articles in American Biography; on the Basis of the Seventh Edition of the German Conversations-lexicon, Volum 6Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth Carey, Lea & Blanchard, 1831 |
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Pàgina 11
... ment of the pleasures of life with pru- dence . Hitherto poetry had been the on- ly instructress of the Grecian world ; and it remained so still , when it took another direction . This happened in the third pe- riod , the age of lyric ...
... ment of the pleasures of life with pru- dence . Hitherto poetry had been the on- ly instructress of the Grecian world ; and it remained so still , when it took another direction . This happened in the third pe- riod , the age of lyric ...
Pàgina 12
... ment of music and the invention of vari- ous forms of lyric poetry , history presents us the names Archilochus of Paros , inventor of the iambus ; Tyrtæus of Miletus , au- thor of war songs ; Callimachus of Ephe- sus , inventor of the ...
... ment of music and the invention of vari- ous forms of lyric poetry , history presents us the names Archilochus of Paros , inventor of the iambus ; Tyrtæus of Miletus , au- thor of war songs ; Callimachus of Ephe- sus , inventor of the ...
Pàgina 14
... ment of the thirty tyrants , the freedom , which comedy had possessed , of holding The up living characters to ridicule , was re stricted , and the middle comedy was thus gradually formed , in which the chorus was abolished , and , with ...
... ment of the thirty tyrants , the freedom , which comedy had possessed , of holding The up living characters to ridicule , was re stricted , and the middle comedy was thus gradually formed , in which the chorus was abolished , and , with ...
Pàgina 21
... ment fixed its seat at Corinth , and , at a later period , again at Argos . The Porte was now obliged to divide its forces . One army was unsuccessfully employed in Ar- menia on the Euphrates , against the Per- sians ; another was ...
... ment fixed its seat at Corinth , and , at a later period , again at Argos . The Porte was now obliged to divide its forces . One army was unsuccessfully employed in Ar- menia on the Euphrates , against the Per- sians ; another was ...
Pàgina 23
... ment without resources , and without the means of exercising authority . Add to this , that the Greeks were continually quarrelling among themselves . The ed- itor was present at a fight between the capitano Niketas and some Moreots ...
... ment without resources , and without the means of exercising authority . Add to this , that the Greeks were continually quarrelling among themselves . The ed- itor was present at a fight between the capitano Niketas and some Moreots ...
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