 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1808 - 336 pages
...reflection may be more justly applied to the ancients, and it may with much greater truth be said ; ' The age will never again return, when a Pericles,...pleading of Demosthenes, or a tragedy of Sophocles.' I shall next examine the other part of Addison's assertion, that the moderns excel the ancients in... | |
 | Nathan Drake - English essays - 1811 - 432 pages
...Tacitus adorned this period, must incontestably be the effect of at least some degree of liberty j otherwise the unsparing lash of the satirist would...that Pericles, Phidias, and Sophocles, were hardly cotemporaries ; Pericles dying in the 87th Olympiad; but Demosthenes, who was. cotemporary with Apelles,... | |
 | Nathan Drake - English essays - 1811 - 424 pages
...would have been contented with a bare relation, and left the reader to make those observations,which, though he could not but have felt, he would have been...that Pericles, Phidias, and Sophocles, were hardly eotemporaries ; Pericles dying in Ihe 87th Olympiad; but Demosthenes, who was cotemporary with Apelles,... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - English literature - 1814 - 672 pages
...of Z.) concludes his ingenious parallel of the ancients and moderns by the following remark: " That age will never again return; when a Pericles, after...pleading of Demosthenes, or a tragedy of Sophocles." It will never return, because it never existed. Pericles (who died in the fourth year of the LXXXIXth... | |
 | Classical philology - 1815 - 404 pages
...given us for the age of Phalaris : and to reduce that controversy within narrower bounds. G. wit!) Plato in a portico built *by Phidias, and painted...pleading of Demosthenes or a tragedy of Sophocles." It will never return, because it never existed. Pericles (who died in the fourth year of the 8Qlh Olympiad,... | |
 | James Ferguson - English essays - 1819 - 332 pages
...reflection may be more justly applied to the ancients, and it may with much greater truth be said, ' The age will never again return, when a Pericles,...pleading of Demosthenes, or a tragedy of Sophocles.' I shall next examine the other part of Addison's assertion, that the modems excel the ancients in all... | |
 | British essayists - 1823 - 788 pages
...reflection may be more justly applied to the ancients, and it may with much greater truth be said ; ' The age will never again return, when a Pericles,...pleading of Demosthenes, or a tragedy of Sophocles.' I shall next examine the other part of Addison's assertion, that the moderns excel the ancients in... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - English essays - 1823 - 636 pages
...reflection may be more justly applied to the ancients, and it may with much greater truth be said, ' The age will never again return, when a Pericles,...pleading of Demosthenes, or a tragedy of Sophocles.' I shall next examine the other part of Addison's assertion, that the moderns excel the ancients in... | |
 | James Ferguson - English essays - 1823 - 322 pages
...excel the ancients in all the arts of Ridicule, and assign the reasons of this supposed excellence. Z. repair to hear a pleading of Demosthenes, or a tragedy of Sophocles." No. 128. SATURDAY, JAN. 26, 1754. Jlli: sinistrorsum, Me dextrorsum abil ; unus utrique Error, sed... | |
 | Charles Butler - Authors, English - 1824 - 368 pages
...concludes his ingenious parallel of the ancients and moderns with the following remark: - — ' That age will never again return, when a Pericles, after...pleading of Demosthenes, or a tragedy of Sophocles.' It will never return, because it never existed. Perities, who died in the fourth year of the eighty-ninth... | |
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That age will never again return, when a Pericles, after walking with Plato in a portico built by Phidias and painted by Apelles, might repair to hear a pleading of Demosthenes or a tragedy of Sophocles. 
