 | 1837 - عدد الصفحات: 590
...nor the dreams of Plato, were fitted to delight. Music and dancing- were indeed cultivated amongst them, and with success and skill ; but the music and...The poetical temperament seems to have been 'common amongst this singular people. But the dread of innovation, when carried to excess, has even worse effect... | |
 | 1837 - عدد الصفحات: 808
...Aristotle, nor the dreams of Plato, were fitted to delight. Music and dancing were indeed cultivated amongst them, and with success and skill ; but the music and...The poetical temperament seems to have been common amongst this singular people. But the dread of innovation, when carried to excess, has even worse effect... | |
 | Thomas Roderick Dew - 1853 - عدد الصفحات: 674
...fixed and stationary. Music and dancing were cultivated among the Spartans, but they were to be only of one kind — it was a crime to vary an air or invent a measure. One produced great philosophers and great orators ; the other hardy men and short sentences. The institutions... | |
 | Thomas Roderick Dew - 1853 - عدد الصفحات: 694
...fixed and stationary. Music and dancing were cultivated among the Spartans, but they were to be only of one kind — it was a crime to vary an air or invent a measure. One produced great philosophers and great orators ; the other hardy men and short sentences. The institutions... | |
 | Francis Jacox - 1871 - عدد الصفحات: 356
...not without skill and success, it was always music or dancing of one kind ; on Plutarch's showing, it was a crime to vary an air or invent a measure. Adam Smith is treating of the republics called upon by the patriotic prints to sneer at the frivolous... | |
 | Francis Jacox - 1872 - عدد الصفحات: 348
...not without skill and success, it was always music or dancing of one kind ; on Plutarch's showing, it was a crime to vary an air or invent a measure. Adam Smith is treating of the republics called upon by the patriotic prints to sneer at the frivolous... | |
 | Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1874 - عدد الصفحات: 570
...Aristotle, nor the dreams of Plato were fitted to delight. Music and dancing were indeed cultivated amongst them, and with success and skill ; but the music and...The poetical temperament seems to have been common amongst this singular people. But the dread of innovation, when carried to excess, has even worse effect... | |
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They had no respect for any other cultivation of the mind, than that which produced bold men, and short sentences. Them, nor the science of Aristotle, nor the dreams of Plato were fitted to delight. Music and dancing were indeed cultivated amongst them,... 