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" ... furnishes conclusive evidence that the poet who composed it might have been as distinguished for lyrical as he was for his dramatic excellence ; that, in a word, he might have been a Pindar, if he had not been an Aristophanes. While listening to the... "
Eclogæ Aristophanicæ, selections from The clouds (The birds) with notes by ... - Page 62
by Aristophanes - 1852
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Greece: Pictorial, Descriptive, and Historical

Christopher Wordsworth (bp. of Lincoln) - 1839 - 512 pages
...been an Aristophanes. While listening to the beautiful language and melodious harmony of this song, the audience might almost imagine itself to be placed...there see and describe. Together with the Chorus of Clouds, it might appear to look down upon the objects of which they speak as then visible to themselves...
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Greece: Pictorial, Descriptive, and Historical

Christopher Wordsworth - 1844 - 502 pages
...been an Aristophanes. While listening to the beautiful language and melodious harmony of this song, the audience might almost imagine itself to be placed...there see and describe. Together with the Chorus of Clouds, it might appear to look down upon the objects of which they speak as then visible to themselves—to...
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Greece: Pictorial, Descriptive, and Historical

Christopher Wordsworth - 1853 - 614 pages
...been an Aristophanes. While listening to the beautiful language and melodious harmony of this song, the audience might almost imagine itself to be placed in the same elevated position supposed to be occupied by those who united in giving it utterance ; and thence it might seem to contemplate...
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The clouds of Aristophanes

Aristophanes - 1858 - 264 pages
...an Aristophanes. ' " While listening to the beautiful language and melodious harmony of this song, the audience might almost imagine itself to be placed in the same elevated position as was oc12 cupied by those who united in giving it utterance ; and thence it might seem to contemplate all...
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Notes and extracts in illustration of A slight sketch of universal history

Richard Simpson (of Lower Clapton.) - 1875 - 768 pages
...been an Aristophanes. While listening to the beautiful language and melodious harmony of this song, the audience might almost imagine itself to be placed...position as was occupied by those who united in giving it attendance ; and thence it might seem to contemplate all the noble and fair spectacles which they there...
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