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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: 'put info disorder. These things, and others of the like nature, excited admiration in all that saw him. Such was his conduct, when a vile and abandoned fellow loaded him a whole day with reproaches and abuse: he bore it with patience and silence, and continued in public for the despatch of some urgent affairs. In the evening he walked softly home, this impudent wretch following, and insulting him all the way with the most scurrilous language: and, as it was dark, when he came to his own door, he ordered one of his servants to take a torch and light the man home. The poet Ion, however, says he was proud and supercilious in conversation, and that there was a great deal of vanity and contempt of others mixed with his dignity of manner: on the other hand, he highly extols the civility, complaisance, and politeness of Cimon. But to take no farther notice of Ion, who perhaps would not have any great excellence appear, without a mixture of something satirical, as it was in the ancient 'tragedy, ' Zeno desired those that called the gravity of Pericles pride and arrogance, to he proud the same way; telling them, the very acting of an excellent part might insensibly produce a love and real imitation of it. These were not the only advantages which Pericles gained by conversing with Anaxagoras. From him he i Tragedy at first was only a chorus in honor of Bacchus. Persons dressed like satyrs were the performers, and they often broke out into the most licentious raillery. Afterwards, 'when tragedy took a graver turn, something of the former drollery was still retained, as in that which we call tragi-co- mrcly. In time, serious characters and events became the subject of tragedy, without that mixture; but even then, nlter exhibiting three or four serious tragedies, the poets used to ...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217533126 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217533124 |
| Weight | 0.79 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.55 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 240 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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