The Dissertations of Maximus Tyrius, المجلد 2C. Whittingham, 1804 |
طبعات أخرى - عرض جميع المقتطفات
عبارات ومصطلحات مألوفة
according accuse Achilles adapted æther Alcibiades all-various allotted ancient animals Anytus Apollo appears assert Athenians Bacchus beautiful become body Boeotia calamities called cause chariot choir concerning conjoin consider contrary corrupted dæmon dæmon of Socrates dæmoniacal delighted Demiurgus depravity desire Diomed discourse disease DISSERTATION divine nature divine power Dodona earth endure energy Epicurus essence evil fables fate festival fire flute fortune fountain gods harmony hear heaven Hence Hesiod Homer honour human Iliad imbecile immortal impart indigent intellect Jupiter labours light likewise manner Maximus Melesagoras Minerva mingled mortal multitude necessary obscure Odrysi Odyss oracle pain passive Pausanias Peloponnesus perfect Phædo Phædrus philosopher Plato pleasure Plotinus poets Polycrates possesses pray prayer Proclus race reason receive respect rivers sacred sacrifice ship Socrates soul speak statues Sthenelus subsist ther things tion translation Trophonius verse virtue whole worthy Xerxes και
مقاطع مشهورة
الصفحة 232 - ... the fountains of the river, which are very near to each other. Here he is obliged to drink of that which is called the water of Lethe, that he may become oblivious of all the former objects of his pursuit. Afterwards he must drink of another water, which is called the water of Mnemosyne, or memory, that he may remember the objects which will present themselves to his view on descending into the grove. Having therefore beheld the statue, which they say was made by Daedalus (and which the priests...
الصفحة 63 - midst surrounding frosts, and vapours chill, Presid'st on bleak Dodona's vocal hill: (Whose groves the Selli, race austere! surround, Their feet unwash'd, their slumbers on the ground; Who hear, from rustling oaks, thy dark decrees; And catch the fates, low-whispered in the breeze;) Hear, as of old! Thou gav'st, at Thetis' prayer, Glory to me, and to the Greeks despair.
الصفحة 45 - Pallas tells me, and forbids to fly. But if she dooms, and if no god withstand, That both shall fall by one victorious hand ; Then heed my words: my horses here detain, Fix'd to the chariot by the straiten'd rein; Swift to Eneas...
الصفحة 12 - The herald now arrives, and guides along The sacred master of celestial song : Dear to the Muse ! who gave his days to flow With mighty blessings, mix'd with mighty woe: With clouds of darkness quench'd his visual ray, But gave him skill to raise the lofty lay.
الصفحة 249 - ... for the young person is not able to judge what is allegory and what is not : but whatever opinions he receives at such an age are with difficulty washed away, and are generally immovable.
الصفحة 30 - OPEN ON ALL HANDS BEFORE THEM. HERE THEY ARE ENTERTAINED WITH HYMNS, AND DANCES, WITH THE SUBLIME DOCTRINES OF SACRED KNOWLEDGE, AND WITH REVEREND AND HOLY VISIONS. AND NOW BECOME PERFECT AND INITIATED, THEY ARE FREE, AND NO LONGER UNDER RESTRAINTS ; BUT CROWNED AND TRIUMPHANT, THEY WALK UP AND DOWN THE REGIONS OF THE BLESSED ; CONVERSE WITH PURE AND HOLY MEN; AND CELEBRATE THE SACRED MYSTERIES AT PLEASURE...
الصفحة 253 - that whatever is tragical, monstrous, and out of the common course of nature in poetical fictions, excites the hearers in all imaginable ways to the investigation of the truth, attracts us to recondite knowledge, and does not suffer us through apparent probability to rest satisfied with superficial conceptions, but compels us to penetrate into the interior parts of fables, to explore the obscure intention of their authors,"* etc.
الصفحة 61 - But when she places herself on the seat of the god, she becomes accommodated to his stable prophetic power ; and from both these preparatory operations, she becomes wholly possessed by the god. And then, indeed, he is present with and illuminates her in a separate manner, and is different from the fire, the spirit, the proper seat, and in short from all the apparent apparatus of the place, whether physical or sacred.
الصفحة 256 - ... the intervention of prayer. Lastly, the continual exercise of prayer nourishes the vigour of our intellect, and renders the receptacles of the soul far more capacious for the communications of the Gods. It likewise is the divine key, which opens to men the penetralia of the Gods ; accustoms us to the splendid rivers of supernal light ; in a short time perfects our inmost recesses, and disposes them for the ineffable embrace and contact of the Gods ; and does not desist till it raises us to the...
الصفحة 131 - As horses, therefore, for their safety are allotted the race, oxen labour, birds wings, lions strength, and other animals something else; in like manner a connate power which preserves the race is present with man. With respect to this power, it is necessary that it should be different from that of other animals; if, being man, he is to be saved, not by strength as lions, nor by the race as horse, and is not to carry burthens like an ass, nor to plough like an ox, nor to fly with birds, nor swim...