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" Thence what the lofty grave tragedians taught In chorus or iambic, teachers best Of moral prudence, with delight received In brief sententious precepts, while they treat Of fate, and chance, and change in human life ; High actions and high passions best... "
Blackwood's Magazine - Page 349
1831
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Paradise Regain'd: A Poem, in Four Books. To which is Added Samson ..., Volume 1

John Milton - 1753 - 356 pages
...262. I» 1 7o Blind Melcfigenes thence Homer call'd, Whoferpoem Phcebus challeng'd for his own. 260 Thence what the lofty grave tragedians taught In Chorus or Iambic, teachers befl Of moral prudence, with delight receiv'd In brief fententious precepts, while they treat 264 Of...
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Paradise Regain'd: A Poem, in Four Books. To which is Added Samson Agonistes ...

John Milton - 1759 - 414 pages
...higher fung, Blind Melefigenes thence Homer call'd, Whofc poem Phoebus challeng'd for his own. 260 Thence what the lofty grave tragedians taught In Chorus or Iambic, teachers beft Of moral prudence, with delight receiv'd In brief fententious precepts, while they treat Of Kile,...
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The Works of the English Poets: Milton

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 262 pages
...higher fung, Blind Melefigenes thence Homer call'd, Whofe poem Phoebus challeng'd for his own. a6o Thence what the lofty grave tragedians taught In Chorus or Iambic, teachers bed VOL. II. P Of Jnceflantly, and to his reading brings not A fpirit and judgment equal or fuperior,...
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Paradise Regain'd: A Poem, in Four Books. To which is Added Samson Agonistes ...

John Milton - English poetry - 1785 - 360 pages
...Engnjh Iliad. Blind Melefigenes thence Homer call'd, Whofe poem Phcebus challeng'd for his own. 260 Thence what the lofty grave tragedians taught In Chorus or Iambic, teachers beft Of moral prudence, with delight receiv'd In brief fententious precepts, while they treat 264 Of...
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A Series of Letters

William Tasker - Classical literature - 1798 - 264 pages
...little fingnlar, that anong the Latin d.ui;..;» he recommends the perufel of Lucretius. " Thence " Thence what the lofty graVe Tragedians taught " In chorus or Iambic, teachers belt " Of moral prudence, with delight receiv'd " In brief fententious precepts ; while they treat...
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An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope ...

Joseph Warton - 1806 - 422 pages
...acquainted and touched with the beauties of Homer, Hesiod, and Callimachus, without proceeding to enquire What the lofty grave tragedians taught, In chorus or iambic, teachers best Of moral prudence, with delight receiv'd In brief sententious precepts. f I own, I have some particular reasons...
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The poetical works of John Milton, with the life of the author ..., Volumes 3-4

John Milton - 1807 - 434 pages
...higher sung, Blind Melesigines thence Homer call'd, Whose poem Pheebus challeng'd for his own. 260 Thence what the lofty grave tragedians taught In Chorus or Iambic, teachers best Of moral prudence, with delight receiv'd In brief sententious precepts, while they treat Of Fate, and Chance,...
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An Essay on the Character and Influence of the Stage

John Styles - Theater - 1815 - 254 pages
...morality, and even piety, been so generally prevalent in any Theatrical compositions as in what — " Her lofty grave tragedians taught In chorus or Iambic, teachers best Of moral prudence." Yet in paying a just and warm tribute to the moral excellencies of these sublime Dramatists...
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Illustrations of the Literary History of the Eighteenth Century ..., Volume 1

John Nichols, John Bowyer Nichols - Authors, English - 1817 - 882 pages
...was intimately acquainted. He had indeed attentively examined, and no one knew better how to explain What the lofty grave Tragedians taught In chorus or iambic, teachers best Of moral prudence, with delight received In brief sententious precepts. MILTON'S P. Rt lib. IV. 1. 264. Nor...
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Biographia Literaria; Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary ..., Volume 1

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Aesthetics - 1817 - 312 pages
...That not only the maxims, but the grounds of a pure morality, the mere fragments of which " • . '. the lofty grave tragedians taught In chorus or iambic, teachers best Of moral prudence, with delight received In brief sententious precepts ;" PAHADISE REGAINED. dnd that the sublime...
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