| 单词 | Pindar |
| 例句 | There, Pindar says, Idas, made angry in some way about his oxen, stabbed and killed Castor. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Pindar is my authority for Aesculapius, whose life he tells in full. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z He tells the whole story of the Quest except the part about Jason and Pelias which I have taken from Pindar. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Aeschylus, the oldest of the three tragic poets, was a contemporary of Pindar’s. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Pindar'ic, after the style and manner of Pindar—a lyric poet of Greece. New Word-Analysis 1871-01-01T00:00:00Z Pindar is quite as important for mythology as Hesiod. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z The rest of the story is told first and best by Pindar in the first half of the fifth century. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Pindar, the greatest lyric poet of Greece, began to write toward the end of the sixth century. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Pindar calls the lyre theirs as well as Apollo’s, “the golden lyre to which the step, the dancer’s step, listens, owned alike by Apollo and the violet-wreathed Muses.” Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z No prose paraphrase can give any idea of Pindar, except, perhaps, something of his singular power for vivid and minutely detailed description. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z I have followed Apollodorus, but I have added the fragment from Simonides, and short quotations from other poets, notably Hesiod and Pindar. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Cleopatra read Homer’s epics, The Iliad and The Odyssey, poetry by Hesiod and Pindar; and plays by Euripides and Menander. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z In my account I have followed the stories given by the two tragic poets and by Theocritus, rather than Pindar, one of the most difficult of poets to translate or even to paraphrase. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Pindar in the early fifth century tells the current tale about the feast Tantalus made the gods and protests that it is not true. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z His adventure with the snakes when he was a baby is told by Pindar in the fifth century and by Theocritus in the third. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z The Theban poet Pindar and his rival Bacchylides , who both wrote victory odes in the fifth century BCE, were surely not the first to get sucked in. Culture flash: Olympic Games 2011-07-28T08:14:35Z Yet, despite its vile purpose, Olimpia's innovations make it one of the cornerstones of cinema, and - pace Pindar- probably the greatest work of art about the Olympics. Culture flash: Olympic Games 2011-07-28T08:14:35Z While Emporium, like many first collections of poetry, gathered a range of forms and subjects, Ian Pindar presents this keenly focused second volume just over a year later. Constellations by Ian Pindar - review 2012-06-08T21:55:04Z Pindar, for his part, keeps drifting off into reveries about the nature of time. ‘The Garden Party’ Is a Tale of Mismatched Families, a Wedding and Lots of Wine 2018-08-31T04:00:00Z Pindar is celebrating the lyre's ability to make the dancer's feet attend to the music it plays. Poster poems: Licence to steal 2013-02-08T11:22:08Z The premise of “Life After Life” comes from a quote by the Greek philosopher Pindar. ‘Life After Life’: One woman’s story, told and retold 2013-04-03T23:20:06Z Pindar's first collection of poetry, Emporium, will be published next year. Helen Dunmore wins National Poetry Competition 2010-03-30T18:35:00Z Duncan's poem quickly moves from Pindar to other artists and writers, and is, in part at least, a meditation on art and its role in our attention to the world, to history and to love. Poster poems: Licence to steal 2013-02-08T11:22:08Z Many classic works of art are, in effect, commercials, from Pindar’s epinician, or victory, odes to Bach’s church cantatas. Can a Musical Sponsored by a Toilet Manufacturer Be a Work of Art? 2018-11-27T05:00:00Z Over the past 18 months there have been a number of management reshuffles at the company, a restructure, and one of its shareholders called for the removal of its chairman, Paul Pindar. Purplebricks snapped up by rival Strike for £1 2023-05-17T04:00:00Z Last year one of its top 10 shareholders, Lecram Holdings, called for the removal of chairman Paul Pindar. Purplebricks: Struggling online estate agent puts itself up for sale 2023-02-17T05:00:00Z I remembered that Moynihan listed “Pindars Corners, N.Y.” as his hometown. Reporter's Notebook: Cokie Roberts' important lesson for this journalist 2019-09-18T04:00:00Z Non-executive chairman Paul Pindar apologised to shareholders for its recent "disappointing" performance. Purplebricks shares fall as founder leaves 2019-05-07T04:00:00Z The Greek poet Pindar said that “neither disease nor bitter old age is mixed in their sacred blood.” Opinion | Nietzsche Made Me Do It 2018-09-22T04:00:00Z This encompasses obvious stuff such as login names and passwords, as well as where someone logs in from; but it also relies on far more subtle indicators, says Joe Pindar, a security strategist at Gemalto, Phone in the right hand? You're a hacker! 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z “Neither disease nor bitter old age is mixed / in their sacred blood,” the poet Pindar wrote of the Hyperboreans in the fifth century B.C. Literature’s Arctic Obsession 2017-04-17T04:00:00Z Pindar Van Arman, 42, a board member for The Colonies condo complex of about 1,000 residents, said he is excited to live within walking distance of the McLean Metro station. Metro’s Silver Line jump-started the Tysons boom, but some say it’s too much too soon 2016-07-02T04:00:00Z The other was “The Victory Odes” of the ancient Greek poet Pindar, which Share called “the most famous poems of athleticism in Western culture.” Bryant the Bard Earns Mostly Positive Reviews 2015-12-02T05:00:00Z “Reduced crop pollination will reduce crop yield for some species, making food more expensive and some crops harder to grow successfully,” said University of Ottawa researcher Alana Pindar on a conference call for journalists. Bees Are Losing Their Habitat Because of Climate Change 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z Chief Executive Paul Pindar said in an interview with Reuters earlier this year. UK competition watchdog to examine government IT contracts 2013-07-03T10:29:19Z Its abstract numbers denote feats of human excellence of the kind once praised in Pindar's odes. Olympics: are the fastest and strongest reaching their mathematical limits? 2012-08-11T23:05:30Z As Pindar put it in another context, the rhapsode's magic words charm all men thereafter. Crossword roundup: Londoner limb picks 2012-07-30T10:16:00Z Pindar was an ancient Greek lyric poet famous for his victory odes. Mayor steals show at opera house Olympic ceremony 2012-07-23T23:32:11Z He said he wrote the ode in the style of classical poet Pindar, using what is called alcaic metre. Olympics poem recited by Boris 2012-07-22T23:34:48Z "Pindar was the greatest poet of his time, and sponsors paid a great deal of money for athletic victors to be honored with an Ode by him," D'Angour said in a statement. Bolt to star in update to ancient Greek Olympic ode 2012-07-22T13:30:43Z It should hardly be offensive to an ordinary man to be told, or at least to find it tacitly assumed, that he could not have invented fluxions, painted like Rembrandt, or sung like Pindar. The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, October 1879 2012-04-18T02:00:17.060Z Man is but the dream of a shadow, said Pindar, speaking for the race of genius, and Byron is conscious of the same insight into the illusive spectacle. Shelburne Essays, Third Series 2012-04-16T02:00:02.027Z The Argives are called “the people of Hera” by Pindar; the Heraeum, situated under a mountain significantly called Mt. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 3 "Helmont, Jean" to "Hernosand" 2012-04-14T02:00:23.707Z He was the god of the Nile, which is indirectly confirmed by Pindar; and by Ptolemy, who says that the Egyptians gave the name of Agathodæmon to the western, or Heracleotic branch. The Masculine Cross A History of Ancient and Modern Crosses and Their Connection with the Mysteries of Sex Worship; Also an Account of the Kindred Phases of Phallic Faiths and Practices 2012-04-11T02:00:31.327Z The ode is in the style of ancient Greek poet Pindar, whose poems celebrating the victorious Olympic competitors of the ancient world were highly prized. Bolt to star in update to ancient Greek Olympic ode 2012-07-22T13:30:43Z Thus, Aristophanes' comedies are turned against modern democracy, and Pindar, the Theban Eagle, has been unceremoniously classed with British Tories, by the London Quarterly. Pencillings by the Way Written During Some Years of Residence and Travel in Europe 2012-03-19T02:00:26.650Z They did not see that Pindar's odes might be very well arranged for their own purpose, and yet not bear translating into the methods of Mr. Locke. Life Without and Life Within or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and poems. 2012-03-05T03:00:13.070Z He has been called the “Cain” of Greece, because he was the first, as Pindar says, “to introduce to mortal men the murder of kin not unaccompanied by cunning.” Browning and His Century 2012-02-15T03:00:39.033Z He himself wrote incessantly in both those languages, and was styled the Modern Pindar. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 9 "Dagupan" to "David" 2012-02-11T03:03:39.807Z Four years ago, at the age of eighteen, Charmides had elected to enter the ranks of that band of rhapsodists known to us now only as the predecessors of fire-winged Pindar and his glorious brethren. Istar of Babylon A Phantasy 2012-01-31T03:00:15.543Z Nectar, nek′tar, n. the name given by Homer, Hesiod, Pindar, &c. to the beverage of the gods, giving life and beauty: a delicious beverage: the honey of the glands of plants.—adjs. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) 2012-01-30T03:00:13.887Z The stretching forth of the child's hands he found in Pindar and Cowley; his "smiling" in Cowley alone, for there is no trace of it in the original. Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 101, October 4, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. 2012-01-30T03:00:13.383Z Would not any college sophomore place them for us—Why, of course, Cowley wrote the Sonnets of Pindar, and Pope was a pseudonym. The Unpopular Review, Number 19 July-December 1918 2012-01-09T03:00:24.167Z He could not believe Paley’s theory that Pindar is earlier than Homer. Tennyson and His Friends 2011-12-28T03:00:32.373Z Even the Doric odes of Pindar, amid their milder beauties, rise often to the tragic grandeur of the succeeding poets, or to the comprehensive and epic fulness of the old M�onian bard. The Philosophy of History, Vol. 1 of 2 2011-12-24T03:07:59.623Z I call on Pluto, gloomy god, to Pindar winged I pray, That thou with the Three Oranges may'st fall in love to-day. The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi; Volume the First 2011-12-12T03:00:27.507Z The culmination of the lyric poetry is marked by two great names, Simonides and Pindar. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 5 "Greek Law" to "Ground-Squirrel" 2011-12-05T03:00:51.527Z The local dialect of Boeotia was not easily intelligible in other districts, and a writer like Pindar, whose patrons were mostly not Boeotians, had perforce to write in a dialect that they could understand. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 4 "Grasshopper" to "Greek Language" 2011-11-28T03:00:19.517Z Hartley Coleridge, he said, spoke of Pindar as the “Newmarket Poet.” Tennyson and His Friends 2011-12-28T03:00:32.373Z Theophrastus is, we believe, the first to describe the touchstone, although it was generally known to the Greeks, as is evidenced by the metaphors of many of the poets,—Pindar, Theognis, Euripides, etc. De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 2011-11-16T03:00:21.977Z All of us have been thirsty thousands of times, and felt with Pindar, that water was the best of things. Life of Oliver Wendell Holmes 2011-11-01T02:00:25.563Z Many of his subjects Simonides and Pindar. were taken from the events of the Persian wars: his epitaphs on those who fell at Thermopylae and Salamis were celebrated. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 5 "Greek Law" to "Ground-Squirrel" 2011-12-05T03:00:51.527Z The godly kings of thy people were poets and musicians when Pindar's and Homer's ancestors were still Peloponnesian fauns with horns in their hair. Saul of Tarsus A Tale of the Early Christians 2011-10-28T02:00:22.437Z Then he asked me if I was fond of Pindar. Tennyson and His Friends 2011-12-28T03:00:32.373Z To Pindar, however, he was indebted for his introduction to public notice. Curiosities of Great Britain: England and Wales Delineated Vol.1-11 Historical, Entertaining & Commercial; Alphabetically Arranged. 11 Volume set. 2011-09-26T02:00:29.140Z And bold Electric Pindar, quick as fear, With race-dust on his cheeks, and clear Slant startled eyes that seem to hear The chariot rounding the last goal, To hurtle past it in his soul. The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Vol. I 2011-09-20T02:00:18.217Z Pindar was the boldest, the most fervid and the most sublime. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 5 "Greek Law" to "Ground-Squirrel" 2011-12-05T03:00:51.527Z "When a thought of Plato becomes a thought to me—when a truth that fired the soul of Pindar fires mine, time is no more." Rough-Hewn 2011-09-20T02:00:15.147Z From the days of Tyrtaeus and Pindar, to Byron, Shelley, and Swinburne, one or other of these themes has been the seed of song. Tennyson and His Friends 2011-12-28T03:00:32.373Z Poets like Pindar, Simonides and Euripides sung his praises, and sculptors like Pheidias and Praxiteles were engaged by the state to carve his statue. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 4 "G" to "Gaskell, Elizabeth" 2011-08-24T02:00:20.690Z What are our works of art by the side of those of Athens; our thinkers by the side of those of Alexandria or India; our poets by the side of a Valmiki, Kalidasa, Homer, Pindar? The Moral and Intellectual Diversity of Races With Particular Reference to Their Respective Influence in the Civil and Political History of Mankind 2011-08-19T02:00:11.867Z Translator of Pindar and author of the able treatise Observations on the Resurrection. A Brief Handbook of English Authors 2011-08-15T02:00:26.603Z And dancing was considered so creditable an employment, and one requiring so much talent, that Pindar calls Apollo a dancer:— Prince of dancers, prince of grace, Hail, Phœbus of the silver quiver. The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us 2011-08-02T02:00:21.843Z Coming in from July heats, we taste the sweetness of Pindar's line, "Water with purest lustre flows," of whose zest the idler knows nothing, and which the sensualist soils and spoils. Tablets 2011-07-25T02:00:17.487Z Immediately over the throne, Pindar, singing to his lyre, before the judges of the Olympic games. Visits and Sketches at Home and Abroad with Tales and Miscellanies Now First Collected Vol. II (of 3) 2011-07-24T02:00:08.803Z The passage excellently illustrates the error of taking poetic details in authors as late as Pindar for survivals of the absolute original form of an elemental myth. Myth, Ritual And Religion, Vol. 2 (of 2) 2011-07-22T02:00:19.110Z The story is referred to in Pindar’s “Fourth Pythian Ode,” where he speaks of “Jove’s golden eagles.” The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning 2011-07-16T02:00:19.397Z The declarations of Pindar and other old poets were express, that Herakles had founded them, that Pelops and other mythical heroes had won victories at them—and victories of various kinds, including chariot races. Problems in Greek history 2011-06-09T02:00:18.427Z It was Ronsard's personal ambition to be the French Virgil, as in lyric poetry he had been proclaimed the French Pindar. A History of Literary Criticism in the Renaissance With special reference to the influence of Italy in the formation and development of modern classicism 2011-05-30T02:00:13.147Z B�ranger was not the hymner of heroes and kings, a maker of odes; he was not Pindar. French Classics 2011-05-22T02:00:12.620Z Pindar does not tell how the crow or the raven flew to Apollo with the news, and how the god cursed the crow, which had previously been white, that it should for ever be black. Myth, Ritual And Religion, Vol. 2 (of 2) 2011-07-22T02:00:19.110Z Think what the strain must have been when Pindar wrote, and Homer, earlier still--I mean in the 'Iliad'--and so with one after another, down to our own day. Flower, Fruit, and Thorn Pieces; or, the Wedded Life, Death, and Marriage of Firmian Stanislaus Siebenkaes, Parish Advocate in the Burgh of Kuhschnappel. 2011-05-20T02:00:42.297Z Pindar mentions it, and Aristophanes calls it the Persian bird, thus indicating it to have been introduced to Greece through Persia, and it is figured on Babylonian cylinders between the 6th and 7th centuries B.C. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 6 "Foraminifera" to "Fox, Edward" 2011-04-22T02:00:08.637Z Frenchmen, it seemed, had nothing to do but follow these exalted precepts and to produce the most wonderful poetry which the world had seen since the days of Pindar and Sappho. Aspects and Impressions 2011-04-12T02:00:22.073Z Some writers, particularly Pindar, have attributed this Greek poem to Homer; and there was long an idle story current, that he had given it as a portion to his daughter Arsephone. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I 2011-04-03T02:00:22.843Z In the third Pythian ode Pindar sings how Apollo was the lover of Coronis; how she was faithless to him with a stranger. Myth, Ritual And Religion, Vol. 2 (of 2) 2011-07-22T02:00:19.110Z Pindar— Man, the frail being of a day, Uncertain shadow of a dream, Illumined by the heavenly beam, Flutters his airy life away. Cannibals all! or, Slaves without masters 2011-03-06T03:00:21.020Z Such stories could be turned into high religious mysteries, as by Aeschylus in his Suppliant Women; into tender and reverent legends, as by Pindar in one or two odes. Euripedes and His Age 2011-03-05T03:00:26.617Z We may observe the case of Cowley, who, I think, had certainly read Malherbe and was influenced by him, in spite of the diametrical views they nourished with regard to the merit of Pindar. Aspects and Impressions 2011-04-12T02:00:22.073Z A commentary on Pindar has been lost, with the exception of the preface, which contains an essay on lyric poetry, a life of Pindar, and an account of the Olympic games. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 8 "Ethiopia" to "Evangelical Association" 2011-03-05T03:00:24.537Z It is instructive to observe, as the Scholiast on Pindar quotes Artemon, that Pindar omits the incident of the crow as foolish and unworthy. Myth, Ritual And Religion, Vol. 2 (of 2) 2011-07-22T02:00:19.110Z Battle after battle was fought and won; cities were destroyed; in Thebes, just one house was left standing, which belonged to a poet named Pindar. Stories of Great Men 2011-02-21T03:00:07.643Z See Nature Pindar,48, 121, 140 Plato,15, 29, 32, 50, 140 Plays. Euripedes and His Age 2011-03-05T03:00:26.617Z Sappho, Anacreon, Stesichorus and Pindar are all regarded as masters of the species, but the finest example preserved in Greek literature is the 18th Idyll of Theocritus, which celebrates the marriage of Menelaus and Helen. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" 2011-02-19T03:00:59.807Z The poems of Pindar, we are told, soon ceased to be popular, and his visions are but a streak of light amid general gloom. Rambles and Studies in Greece 2011-02-18T03:00:16.480Z Demosthenes was like Plato, a passionate thinker; Pindar, Æschylus and Sophocles were reasoning poets. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z Saith Heraclitus, "Much learning does not teach to have mind"; saith Pindar, "His art is true who by nature hath knowledge," and he scorns the crows that have but learned. The Color Line A Brief in Behalf of the Unborn 2011-01-30T03:00:15.907Z The story had been treated before Euripides by many poets, including Homer, Stesichorus, Pindar, Aeschylus and possibly—though the dates are not certain—Sophocles. Euripedes and His Age 2011-03-05T03:00:26.617Z Pindar, speaking of the Eleusinian Mysteries, says: "Blessed is he who, on seeing those common concerns under the earth, knows both the end of life and the given end of Jupiter." The Eleusinian Mysteries and Rites 2011-01-28T03:00:23.447Z Can we then wonder at the enthusiastic language of the Homeric Hymn,81 of Pindar,82 of Sophocles,83 of Aristophanes,84 of Plato,85 of Isocrates,86 of Chrysippus87? Rambles and Studies in Greece 2011-02-18T03:00:16.480Z Pindar, the greatest lyricist of the Greeks, wrote about athletic contests; athletes were his heroes. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z Does not Sappho hold the lyre at the same time as Alcæus and Pindar? Woman in Science With an Introductory Chapter on Woman's Long Struggle for Things of the Mind 2011-01-12T03:00:29.853Z He would perhaps be ready, with great hesitation, to tolerate certain timid attempts to expurgate the story, like Pindar's, for instance, which results, according to our judgment, in making it rather worse. Euripedes and His Age 2011-03-05T03:00:26.617Z In praise of cold water the Theban bard spoke, He of Teos sang sweetly of wine; Miss Flounce is a Pindar in cashmere and cloak, Miss Fleece an Anacreon divine. Fanny With Other Poems 2011-01-01T03:00:27.707Z The commemoration of gymnastic victories by these statues seems to have completely supplanted the older fashion of triumphal odes, which in Pindar’s day were so prized, and so dearly bought from lyric poets. Rambles and Studies in Greece 2011-02-18T03:00:16.480Z Pindar insists it will largely fall to the larger, experienced outsourcing groups to deliver the scale and pace of savings the government has outlined. Capita boss highlights problems with government spending cuts plan 2010-11-22T18:25:00Z "There is buoyant demand for outsourcing across both the private and public sectors, with the most active markets in our strong bid pipeline remaining local government and life and pensions," said chief executive Paul Pindar. FTSE hit two-month high on stress test optimism 2010-07-22T16:28:00Z According to Pindar, she imitated on the flute the dismal wail of the two surviving Gorgons after the death of Medusa. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 7 "Arundel, Thomas" to "Athens" It will be found in the Odes of Pindar, the tragedies of Euripides and �schylus, and in the writings of Terence. Proverb Lore Many sayings, wise or otherwise, on many subjects, gleaned from many sources It is almost certain, according to an old scholion on Pindar, that the temples of heroes like Theseus faced west, while those only of the Olympian gods faced the rising sun. Rambles and Studies in Greece 2011-02-18T03:00:16.480Z Arion and Pindar were also stated to be the children of the Muses, to whom the Romans built a temple and consecrated a fountain. Heathen Mythology But Virgil seeks to establish a closer connexion between the past and the present, than that established by Pindar. The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil “The day of eternity” was not irradiated with the golden splendour of Pindar’s Happy Isles; it was grey and sad and calm. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius Hesiod, Homer, Pindar, �sop, Solon, Aristotle, Ph�drus, and many other ancient writers introduced them. Proverb Lore Many sayings, wise or otherwise, on many subjects, gleaned from many sources It is, indeed, true that we find in Pindar thoughts and aspirations of a very different kind. Rambles and Studies in Greece 2011-02-18T03:00:16.480Z Pindar, in the fourth Pythian ode. gives the oldest detailed account of it. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 5 "Arculf" to "Armour, Philip" A third supposition is that of the Scholiast to Pindar, Pyth. The History and Antiquities of the Doric Race, Vol. 2 of 2 It was popularised by Pindar, “the Homer of the Pythagorean school.” Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius The bacchanalian enthusiasm of Pindar flowed in torrents less rapid and less eloquent, and inspired less delight, than Townshend's imagery, which conveyed meaning in every sentence. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, No. 362, December 1845 Pindar sings as if, to the aristocrats of Ægina, or the tyrants of Sicily, no higher earthly prizes were attainable. Rambles and Studies in Greece 2011-02-18T03:00:16.480Z He edited Hesiod, Pindar, Aeschylus, Sophocles and other authors; but his chief fame rests on his critical and exegetical edition of Homer, practically the foundation of our present recension. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 5 "Arculf" to "Armour, Philip" He then laughed and said, "Then we will follow Pindar's advice and drink water, because we have no wine." The Autobiography of Thomas Platter, a schoolmaster of the sixteenth century. We are no longer watching, with Pindar or Virgil, the spirits basking in Elysian meads and fanned by ocean breezes. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius Thus Pindar declares that of all the gods “he is the most friendly to men.” The History and Antiquities of the Doric Race, Vol. 1 of 2 It is still the most complete edition of Pindar that we have. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 1 "Bisharin" to "Bohea" No poet ever excelled him in conciseness, and in the rare talent of finishing his pictures by a few bold touches; the merit of Pindar in his better hours. View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages, Vol. 3 Once as we were eating our supper, and drinking water to it, he said, "Platere! how does Pindar begin?" The Autobiography of Thomas Platter, a schoolmaster of the sixteenth century. It had driven Xenophanes into open revolt, it had exercised the mind of the reverent Pindar and the sceptical Euripides. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius Pindar beautifully says of this god that he “invented the citharis and bestows the muse on whom he wills, in order to introduce peaceful law into the heart.” The History and Antiquities of the Doric Race, Vol. 1 of 2 Sweeter were they than ought he had ever read in Pindar's page, and more sublime than even Homer's hymns. Valeria The Martyr of the Catacombs But we cannot know how Pindar spoke any more than we can know the song the Sirens sang; the most learned scholar cannot, alas! summon from the past the articulation of Plato. Mentone, Cairo, and Corfu And often, by the joy without And in us, overcome, We, through our musing, shall let float Such poems,—sitting dumb,— As Pindar might have writ if he Had tended sheep in Arcady; XXVII. The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning Volume II Pindar, on the other hand, in the splendid Fourth Pythian Ode, already knows Colchis as the scene of the loves and flight of Jason and Medea. Custom and Myth New Edition This hero is in general the mythical progenitor and hero of the Doric nation; hence Pindar called the customs and laws of that people “the ordinances of Ægimius.” The History and Antiquities of the Doric Race, Vol. 1 of 2 With such monstrosities in metre, he had the courage to proclaim himself a modern Pindar. The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi Volume the Second "Divinities of Pindar," he shouted, "listen to that!" A Transient Guest and Other Episodes "Divinities of Pindar," he kept exclaiming—a phrase that he had caught somewhere—"divinities of Pindar, she is mine." The Truth About Tristrem Varick A Novel ‘Long were it for me to go by the beaten track,’ says Pindar, ‘and I know a certain short path.’ Custom and Myth New Edition Apollo, says Pindar, was born with time;1300—alluding to the many obstacles and delays experienced at his birth. The History and Antiquities of the Doric Race, Vol. 1 of 2 A genius so elevated and unconfixed as Mr Cowley's was but necessary to make Pindar speak English, and that was to be performed by no other way than imitation. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 354, April 1845 For Tacitus gave facilities for journalese, Juvenal for obscenity, and Pindar for colossal bathos. Years of Plenty “His songs,” he says, “in general may be compared to those of Pindar; they have frequently the same flight of imagination.” The Revival of Irish Literature Addresses by Sir Charles Gavan Duffy, K.C.M.G, Dr. George Sigerson, and Dr. Douglas Hyde Like Pindar, we may abridge the tale of Jason. Custom and Myth New Edition The correct account is without doubt that given by Pindar,1190 who calls Aristæus, conjointly with Zeus and Apollo, a protector of flocks, and guardian of huntsmen. The History and Antiquities of the Doric Race, Vol. 1 of 2 Dryden's defence of the manner in which Pindar has been made to speak English by Cowley, cannot be sustained. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 354, April 1845 He went through some Tacitus and Juvenal and Pindar at a great pace amid considerable amusement. Years of Plenty Pindar, in whose hands the ode took such magnificent completeness, is said to have been trained in the elements of dithyrambic poetry by a certain Lasus of Hermione. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 5 "Dinard" to "Dodsworth" Of all works, not creative, the one of most aspiring ambition, even more than that of Pindar or Æschylus. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 353, March 1845 As to the ceremonies with which she was honoured, we only know from Pindar that at Rhodes they offered fireless sacrifices to her, and that the ancient sculpture of Rhodes was connected with her worship. The History and Antiquities of the Doric Race, Vol. 1 of 2 His "Pindarque Odes, written in imitation of the style and manner of the Odes of Pindar," are unique. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 354, April 1845 Henceforward Finney taught in peace and even made Cartwright begin to display a keen interest in Pindar. Years of Plenty Were it so, the Dorians and Athenians, including Sophocles, Pindar, �schines, Epaminondas, all the Spartan kings and generals, the Theban legion, Pheidias, Plato, would have been one nation of rickety, phthisical, dropsical paralytics. A Problem in Modern Ethics being an inquiry into the phenomenon of sexual inversion, addressed especially to Medical Psychologists and Jurists I don't mind telling you, my dear, that my heart sank, for I had a good lot of Pindar to do, and there is no sense in shirking one's lessons. Hildegarde's Harvest How general the respect for Sparta was at that time in Greece, is shown by several passages in Pindar, which are not otherwise intelligible, e.g. The History and Antiquities of the Doric Race, Vol. 1 of 2 There can be no doubt that he could construe Pindar—none that he could have understood him—had he tried to do so. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 354, April 1845 In between was the unexampled reign of beauty during which, after Æschylus and Pindar, came the splendors of Sophocles, the magnificence of Euripides, Socratic wisdom, and the rich, rare laugh of Aristophanes. Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern He ignores the biographies of the Spartan kings, the institutions of Crete, the Theban Sacred Band, the dialogues of Plato, the anecdotes related about Pheidias, Sophocles, Pindar, Demosthenes, Alcibiades, and so forth. A Problem in Modern Ethics being an inquiry into the phenomenon of sexual inversion, addressed especially to Medical Psychologists and Jurists Having commenced to read the Greek writers at home, he conceived a great admiration for Pindar, and strove successfully to imitate him. The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, Volume IV (of 8) During his exile he met with the works of Pindar, and determined to reproduce their lofty lyric passion in English. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 6 "Coucy-le-Château" to "Crocodile" Cowley's conceits are cruel in Pindar's case—yet, in spite of them, there is a strange sublimity in the strain—at the end moral grandeur. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 354, April 1845 "The man purified by initiation," says Pindar, "has understood before his death the beginning and end of life, and after death dwells with the gods." Greek Women Unless one has good nerves, it is advisable not to look at the window, which was given by the students of the Theological College under Canon Pindar, its first Principal. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Wells A Description of Its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See Having mentioned Mr. Cowley, it may very well be expected that something should be said of him, at a time when the imitation of Pindar is the theme of our discourse. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History Dr. Sprat entitled his poem on him an "Ode to the English Ovid, Anacreon, Pindar, and Virgil." The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1 New Edition But Pindar is all Greek—Greek to the backbone. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 354, April 1845 The names of the next two of the Terrestrial Nine are closely associated with that of Pindar of Thebes,--Myrtis and Corinna, the one the instructor, the other the rival, of the great composer. Greek Women She is chiefly known as the instructress and rival of Pindar, over whom she gained the victory in five poetical contests. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 4 "Coquelin" to "Costume" We shall see that Pindar, �schylus and Sophocles, the poets of an age when paiderastia was prevalent, spoke unreservedly upon the subject. A Problem in Greek Ethics Being an inquiry into the phenomenon of sexual inversion "The manner and character of the writings" of Homer, Virgil, Pindar, Horace, Aristotle, and Cicero could hardly have been described in a vaguer and more common-place way. The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1 New Edition To hear Pindar in English, you must open your wings, and away to the field of Elis, or the Isthmian strand. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 354, April 1845 She later entered the lists in a poetic contest with Pindar, and for this she was censured by Corinna. Greek Women Of his works in classical literature, the best known are an edition of the Euxenippus of Hypereides, and monographs on Pindar and Sappho. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 7 "Columbus" to "Condottiere" In Pindar, passing from Ibycus and Anacreon, we ascend at once into a purer and more healthful atmosphere, fraught, indeed, with passion and pregnant with storm, but no longer simply sensual. A Problem in Greek Ethics Being an inquiry into the phenomenon of sexual inversion The six persons Pope thought proper to select as worthy to be placed on the highest seats of honour are Homer, Virgil, Pindar, Horace, Aristotle, Tully. The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1 New Edition But the difficulty of translating Pindar is quite distinct from his obscurity. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 354, April 1845 The younger woman, who defeated Pindar five times in poetic contests, gave her rival some good advice, by which he profited in his later productions. Greek Women Out of the past the dim leaves spoke to me The thoughts of Pindar with a voice so sweet Hybl�an bees seemed swarming my retreat Around the reedy well of Poesy. Idyllic Monologues Old and New World Verses The greatest poet of the lyric age, the lyrist par excellence Pindar, adds much to our conception of Greek love at this period. A Problem in Greek Ethics Being an inquiry into the phenomenon of sexual inversion Sophocles and Euripides deserved certainly an honourable niche in the Temple of Fame, as much as Pindar and Horace. The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1 New Edition Such is Mr Cowley's practice in turning two odes of Pindar, and one of Horace, into English. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 354, April 1845 When, following her counsel, Pindar brought to her a poem abounding in mythological allusions, Corinna smiled, and remarked to him that in future he should "sow by the handful, not with the whole sack." Greek Women The first author who mentions the Pillars of Hercules is Pindar, and he places them there. Bible Myths and their Parallels in other Religions Being a Comparison of the Old and New Testament Myths and Miracles with those of the Heathen Nations of Antiquity Considering also their Origin and Meaning Read by the side of the poetry of the Psalms, the lyrics of Pindar seem almost provincial. The Christian View of the Old Testament The name of Colchis first appears in Aeschylus and Pindar. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 6 "Cockaigne" to "Columbus, Christopher" "If a man should undertake to translate Pindar word for word, it would be thought that one madman had translated another." Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 354, April 1845 It is mentioned by Thucydides, and it must be the eruption to which Pindar and Æschylus allude. Etna A History of the Mountain and of its Eruptions There we can repose under the dark umbrage of orange and myrtle groves, drink deep of the beauties of Pindar, and bind our temples with wreaths of laurel. Tales from Blackwood, Volume 1 Paulding wrote his share of Salmagundi on the upper floor of the Greenwich Street house, while the lower floor was the mill of Pindar Cockloft, conducted by William Irving. Literary New York Its Landmarks and Associations Pindar, the famous lyric poet, a native and resident of Thebes, had then been dead more than a century. Minor Poems by Milton Compare Cowley with him—book in hand—and ever and anon you behold Pindar. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 354, April 1845 Neither, although very fond of the Greek and Roman classics generally, did he seem to enjoy any of the Greek poets except Homer and Pindar and, to some extent, Aristophanes. Studies in Contemporary Biography He also edited Hesiod and Pindar, Euripides and Aristophanes, besides composing brief introductions to the several plays, parts of which are still extant. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 4 "Cincinnatus" to "Cleruchy" "Beyond Gades," i. e., scarcely outside of the Pillars of Hercules, the extreme limit of the ancient world, "no man," said Pindar, "however daring, could pass; only a god might voyage those waters!" The Story of Extinct Civilizations of the West But Pindar’s house still stood, and was left standing by the conqueror, who destroyed all other buildings of the city. Minor Poems by Milton I once read to a company of sensible and well-educated women the introductory period of Cowley’s preface to his Pindaric Odes, written in imitation of the style and manner of the odes of Pindar. English Critical Essays Nineteenth Century The harp of Homer, the trump of Pindar and of Alcæus are still. Hazlitt on English Literature An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature One of the very few authentic Greek odes extant is a Pythian ode by Pindar, in which the phorminx of Apollo is mentioned; the solo is followed by a chorus of citharoedi. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 4 "Cincinnatus" to "Cleruchy" Spenser has been compared to Pindar, and contrasted with Cervantes. Spenser The only other great Bœotian was the poet Pindar, who was living at this time. Aunt Charlotte's Stories of Greek History Mr. L. O. Pindar states that nests found in Kentucky are compactly built, but not very thickly lined. Birds, Illustrated by Color Photography, Vol. 2, No. 5 November 1897 Pindar was rich in anecdote and grotesque humour, and profound in technical knowledge both of music, poetry, and painting, but he was gross and overbearing. Hazlitt on English Literature An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature The descendants and family connections of Pindar, the celebrated poet, who has been already mentioned as having been born in Thebes, were all pardoned also, whichever side they may have taken in the contest. Alexander the Great Makers of History Every minor poet, no matter however feeble his poetical wings might be, endeavoured to fly with Pindar. The Age of Pope (1700-1744) Pindar's name he adds in the list of the classics, and after Bacon's name he writes "chiefly the New Atlantis." How to Form a Library, 2nd ed Wakefield remarks that this use of a plural verb after the first of a series of subjects is in Pindar's manner. Select Poems of Thomas Gray Le Brun, not the picture-dealing husband, but the poetical fellow who modestly nicknamed himself the Pindar of his age, plucked at the lyre with both hands in her honour. Vigée Le Brun Among these was Pindar, a very celebrated poet who had flourished one or two centuries before the time of Alexander. Alexander the Great Makers of History All this seemed to pass before our very eyes in the Veda, and then to be reflected in Homer and Pindar. My Autobiography A Fragment By a change of style which emerges in, say, Pindar and Aeschylus when compared with what we know of Corinna or Thespis. Five Stages of Greek Religion Gray says, "This is a weak imitation of some beautiful lines in the same ode;" that is, in "the first Pythian of Pindar," referred to in the note on 13. Select Poems of Thomas Gray Indeed, it is a hundred years since Fisher Ames, ridiculing the theory that climate acts directly upon literary products, said wittily of Greece: "The figs are as fine as ever, but where are the Pindars?" The American Mind The E. T. Earl Lectures In that case go yourself to the Ambrosian library; or, in criticising what I may send, you may be as unfortunate as the great scholar who unconsciously questioned the Greek of Pindar. Blackwoods Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 366, April, 1846 Under Poetry are grouped Apollo and the Muses, and the figures of Homer, Dante and Virgil, of Petrarcha, Anacreon and Sappho, of Pindar and of Horace are recognized. Italy, the Magic Land Even in Homer we find it expurgated; in Pindar, Aeschylus, and Xenophanes it is expurgated, denied and allegorized. Five Stages of Greek Religion Muses: "That Hyperion far beyond his bed Doth see our lions ramp, our roses spread;" by West, Pindar's Ol. viii. Select Poems of Thomas Gray The Lecturer also reads selections from Homer, the Greek drama, Pindar, etc. College Teaching Studies in Methods of Teaching in the College In his youth he had some reputation as a lyric poet; so that he is sometimes classed with Pindar, Simonides, and Bacchylides. The Academic Questions, Treatise De Finibus, and Tusculan Disputations, of M.T. Cicero, With a Sketch of the Greek Philosophers Mentioned by Cicero The prospect of Elysium is beautiful and inviting, as described by Homer, Hesiod and Pindar. The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, Volume I, No. 11, November, 1880 To them to have been translators of Homer, or of Pindar and Stesichorus, and to have put into Latin language ideas which were noble, was a work as worthy of praise as that of inventing. The Life of Cicero Volume II. The subject and simile, as usual with Pindar, are united. Select Poems of Thomas Gray Who has not heard of Homer, Herodotus, Pindar, Demosthenes, Aristotle, Plato and many others. The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, Volume I, No. 10. October, 1880 It appears from several passages in Pindar, and especially from one in Sophocles, which I shall cite very soon, that they ran twelve times round the Stadium. The Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes and Persians, Macedonians and Grecians (Vol. 1 of 6) In later times we find that Pindar extends his rewards to good men in general; but Euripides is sometimes skeptical, and Iphigenia without hesitation expresses her disbelief of the popular mythology. The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, Volume I, No. 11, November, 1880 Make Britons Greeks again.—Then strike the lyre, And Pindar shall not sing in vain. ——ii. Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance His lower lip with restless tooth— As Pindar's rushing words forsooth Were pent behind it. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 349, November, 1844 Above all, the honour shown by the Oracle to Pindar, one of the chief representatives of the earlier thought, testifies to this. Atheism in Pagan Antiquity It does not appear that any regard was had to this remonstrance; for we find, by one of Pindar's odes, composed in honour of Hiero, that he won the prize in the equestrian races. The Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes and Persians, Macedonians and Grecians (Vol. 1 of 6) How gladly would learned men have laid aside for a few hours Pindar's Odes and Aristotle's Ethics, to escort the author of Cecilia from college to college! Critical and Historical Essays, Volume III (of 3) No longer now from learning's sacred store, Our minds their health and vigour draw; Homer and Pindar are revered no more, No more the Stagyrite is law. Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance In the mouth of Pindar, life might be called a dream, and it would but pass for the effusion of poetic melancholy. The American Quarterly Review, No. 17, March 1831 For Pindar Zeus is lord of all things and is far removed from the moral impurities of the popular conception. Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV We find, that all the odes of the four books of Pindar turn upon it, each of which takes its title from the games in which the combatants signalized themselves, whose victories those poems celebrate. The Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes and Persians, Macedonians and Grecians (Vol. 1 of 6) A local poet—not Simonides, not Pindar, but some humbler bard—had invoked his muse for the grand occasion. A Victor of Salamis There is thus no intrinsic improbability in the hypothesis that Pindar's haughty spirit had suffered, or imagined, some mortification. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" Do our readers remember Horace’s description of Pindar? Spare Hours The poetry is not of that tumid nature which Pindar uses, but of the graceful simplicity of Homer's verse. The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 6, June 1810 They make Æschylus, Euripides, Pindar, Homer, and Hesiod great monumental pillars of the progress of the human race. Ancient States and Empires Even in the extremely diluted form of the Eleusinian Mysteries, their value is most highly praised by the most eminent men of Greece, as Pindar, Sophocles, Isocrates, Plutarch, and Plato. Esoteric Christianity, or The Lesser Mysteries Two of these fragments, belonging to the description of a chariot-race, warrant the belief that Simonides, in his epinikia, differed from Pindar in dwelling more on the incidents of the particular victory. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" You think Pindar wrote that carelessly? or that, if he had only known a little modern anatomy, instead of "reptile" things, he would have said "monochondylous" things? The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing When I say “we cannot pray with the Vedas and Homer and their heroes, not even with Pindar,” I mean, we as worshippers, as a community; and that you will surely allow. Chips From A German Workshop. Vol. III. Essays on Literature, Biography, and Antiquities Its inhabitants were famed for their stolidity, and yet it furnished Hesiod, Pindar, Corinna, and Plutarch to the immortal catalogue of names. Ancient States and Empires Six thousand of the inhabitants were slain, and 30,000 sold into slavery; the house and descendants of the poet Pindar alone being spared. Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 1 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History Pindar packs his γνῶμαι, his maxims or moral sentiments, into terse and sometimes obscure epigrams; he utters them in a didactic tone, as of one who can speak with the commanding voice of Delphic wisdom. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" Byron's mistake about Hallam in the Pindar story may be worth placing among absurdities. A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II What a curious similarity to the Edda, Homer, and Pindar, Hesiod, and the Hellenic primitive times! Chips From A German Workshop. Vol. III. Essays on Literature, Biography, and Antiquities The third eruption, which was in 477 B.C., is mentioned by Thucydides, and it must have been the same eruption to which Pindar and Æschylus allude. Complete Story of the San Francisco Horror Pindar describes this method of cultivation when he says:— “Fruitful fields in turn now yield to man his yearly bread upon the plains, and now again they pause and gather back their strength.” On The Structure of Greek Tribal Society: An Essay He would thus have been some forty-nine years younger than his uncle Simonides, and some fifteen years younger than Pindar. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" Pindar, however, alludes to the Cyclops diluting their beverage with ten waters. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. But has not Shakspeare a little disregarded the eternal laws of the beautiful observed by Homer, Pindar, and a host of other poets, ancient and modern? My Recollections of Lord Byron You think Pindar wrote that carelessly? or that, if he had only known a little modern anatomy, instead of 'reptile' things, he would have said 'monochondylous' things? Aratra Pentelici, Seven Lectures on the Elements of Sculpture Given before the University of Oxford in Michaelmas Term, 1870 Here the choicest lyric poets of Greece awoke admiration with their unequalled songs, at their head the noble Pindar, the laureate of the Olympic and Pythian games. Historic Tales, vol 10 (of 15) The Romance of Reality In tragedy, he asks, who would be Ion of Chios rather than Sophocles; or in lyric poetry, Bacchylides rather than Pindar? Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" The rambling meditations of Balsamo were soon concentrated upon a loftier theme, by the voice of Milton singing in a subdued tone the antistrophe of a favourite ode of Pindar. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 62, No. 384, October 1847 It needs a Pindar worthily to extol a Caesar: he is no Pindar; and so we have an ode in honour of the Theban bard. Horace Pindar, Sir, has expressed a great truth; but I think that Pierpont has expressed it better. The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, June 1844 Volume 23, Number 6 We see this even in Pindar, who speaks of his heroes as casting anchor on the summit of happiness. The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851 Greater poets can make an image flash upon the mind, as Pindar sometimes does, by a magic phrase, or by throwing one or two salient points into strong relief. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" And the visage of the old bard responded to the strain of Pindar; it was illumined with a certain majesty of expression that imparted additional dignity to a countenance at all times beaming with wisdom. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 62, No. 384, October 1847 I take Dugdale to mean that under the Charles commission £101,000 was raised, and £35,000 spent; but it seems uncertain whether we are to include Sir Paul Pindar's liberality in this sum. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Saint Paul An Account of the Old and New Buildings with a Short Historical Sketch Oho! cries the Pindar of the reign of Louis the Fifteenth, you are a pretty woman to talk of misery and ill-treatment for fourteen years! Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 357, June, 1845 Pindar introduceth this King of the feathered race in a much nobler and more animated manner. An Essay on the Lyric Poetry of the Ancients Pindar's habit is to select certain moments or scenes of a legend, which he depicts with great force and vividness. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" He also wrote comedies in imitation of Menander, and imitated the tragedies of Euripides and the odes of Pindar.… A Source Book for Ancient Church History All he wanted to equal Pindar was some forgetfulness of self, some warmth, some genuine enthusiasm, some harmony, a touch of genius; a certain dignity of imagination he exhibits in his best moments. A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II. Is that a man to awake jealousy in the soul of Pindar, or get up private theatricals, or even take a prominent part in an acted charade? Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 357, June, 1845 Pindar is in many instances equally happy in the choice of his images, which are frequently introduced with address, and produce a very striking effect69. An Essay on the Lyric Poetry of the Ancients Men of ambition, again, look upon the world as a theatre for fame and glory, and make it that magnificent scene of high enterprise and august recompence which Pindar or Cicero has delineated. The Idea of a University Defined and Illustrated: In Nine Discourses Delivered to the Catholics of Dublin "A sweet thing," says Pindar, "is war to those that have not tried it." The Creed of the Old South 1865-1915 In his imitations of Pindar a narrative element checks the flight of song, and there is a certain unreality in the premeditated attempt to reproduce the passionate fluctuations and supposed disorder of his model. A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II. Yes, the French Pindar is appointed poet-laureate to the guillotine, and has apartments assigned him at the national cost in the Louvre. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 357, June, 1845 The learned and ingenious Translator of Pindar has suggested several striking pleas in his favour, both with respect to the connection of his thoughts and the regularity of his measure85. An Essay on the Lyric Poetry of the Ancients Pindar is all through his odes a speaker. The Idea of a University Defined and Illustrated: In Nine Discourses Delivered to the Catholics of Dublin In the style of fiction it might have been said of him as of Pindar, that when he lay in his cradle, “the bees swarmed about his mouth.” The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes Volume the Eighth: The Lives of the Poets, Volume II The study of Pindar, however, trained Ronsard in the handling of sustained periods of verse, and interested him in complex lyrical combinations. A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II. Pindar, in his red cap, with his many-stringed harp in his hand, was there; and all Helicon glowed like molten lead in his vindictive heart when he looked at the miserable pair. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 357, June, 1845 I shall only observe further with regard to Pindar, that his character is eminently distinguished by that noble superiority to vulgar opinions, which is the inseparable concomitant of true genius. An Essay on the Lyric Poetry of the Ancients A lightning sent from Sinai and a gleam From great Olympus, like the mingling sounds Of David's harp and Pindar's lyre, conversing In the star-spangled darkness of the night. Life Immovable First Part He now appears to have given up all hopes of overtaking Pindar, and, perhaps, at last resolved to turn his ambition to some original species of poetry. The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes Volume the Eighth: The Lives of the Poets, Volume II That he could succeed tolerably in the mock-heroic vein, may be seen in his parody on Pindar's ariston men hydor, entitled Gooseberry Pie, and in some of the occasional pieces called Nondescripts. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 459 Volume 18, New Series, October 16, 1852 The Kuphini river joins the Pindar 8 miles from its source. Birds of the Indian Hills On the contrary, Pindar never curbs the lxxvii exuberance of his Genius. An Essay on the Lyric Poetry of the Ancients At Thebes, Alexander paid a compliment to letters, by destroying every building in the city except the house of the poet, Pindar. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Philosophers, Volume 8 Of his learning, the late collection exhibits evidence, which would have been yet fuller, if the dissertations which accompany his version of Pindar had not been improperly omitted. The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes Volume the Eighth: The Lives of the Poets, Volume II For as Pindar says, "The horse to the chariot, and the ox to the plough, while he that meditates destruction for the boar must find a staunch hound." Plutarch's Morals Beyond the junction the path to the glacier crosses to the left bank of the Pindar, and then the ascent becomes steep. Birds of the Indian Hills Perhaps however, your Lordship, like the French Critic, is at a loss to find in all this, the energy, the vehemence, the exuberance of Pindar. An Essay on the Lyric Poetry of the Ancients Walpole scattered his purchase-money everywhere; he sowed with the sack and not with the hand, to adopt the famous saying applied by a Greek poetess to Pindar. A History of the Four Georges, Volume II The Pindar I had read once over with a crib; the morality I had not looked at; the mathematics I did not touch.” Julian Home The passage about the Lydian chariot is said to be by Pindar in our author, "Nicias," p. Plutarch's Morals But if he could not be a poet himself, at least he knew Pindar and Homer by heart, and at the Hague he never stirred out without a Horace in his pocket. Diderot and the Encyclopædists Volume II. I have said, my Lord, that his subjects are more diversified, because in the character of a Lyric Poet we must consider him as a professed imitator both of Anacreon and of Pindar. An Essay on the Lyric Poetry of the Ancients As one might say, the pin has had no Pindar. Pipefuls Of Elizabeth Pindar as a book-collector, or, indeed, as anything else, we are without any record. The Book-Hunter in London Historical and Other Studies of Collectors and Collecting "Warm water will not so much make the limbs soft by soaking," to quote Pindar,728 as glory and honour and power make "labour sweet, and toil to be no toil." Plutarch's Morals Perhaps nothing in a modern language comes nearer to giving the peculiar effect which is the glory of Pindar. Milton The learned Abbe Fraquier in a short dissertation on the character of Pindar affirms, that one will discover too obvious an imitation of this Poet in those pieces of Horace which are sublime and diversified88. An Essay on the Lyric Poetry of the Ancients As Pindar puts it, ‘It sleeps when the limbs are active.’ The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield Plotinus, says Emerson, 'believes only in philosophers; Fénélon, in saints; Pindar and Byron, in poets. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 451 Volume 18, New Series, August 21, 1852 Not so in poetry: if it were, much of Pindar and Aeschylus, and no little of Dante, would be censurable. Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection But the elaborate and intricate perfection of its art and language, the way in which the intellect in it serves the imagination, is exactly Pindar. Milton Upon comparing these with the Odes of Pindar, he says that we shall find more strength, more energy, and more sublimity in the works of the Greek, than in those of the Roman Poet92. An Essay on the Lyric Poetry of the Ancients Pindar, with poetic licence, speaks of Æsculapius healing acute disorders with soothing songs; but Æsculapius, whether man or deity, or between both, is a physician of the days of barbarism and fable. Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 Have you any special favourite among the Odes of Pindar?' Gryll Grange When the Thebans in their jealousy condemned Pindar to the payment of a fine for having praised the Athenians too highly, our citizens erected a statue of bronze to him. Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection Of course there is in it more of the fanciful, and more of the romantic, than there was in Pindar; and its style is tenderer, prettier and perhaps altogether smaller than his. Milton Whatever may be in this, it is certain that the Odes of Horace, in which he has professedly imitated Pindar, are much more correct and faultless than these of his Master. An Essay on the Lyric Poetry of the Ancients Many of these complex stanzaic forms, moreover, belong in the tradition of the so-called Pindaric ode, imitated freely from the Greek choric odes of Pindar. The Principles of English Versification Miss Fuller called his poetry thin and the poet himself a "dandy Pindar." Brief History of English and American Literature Let, then, his image stand; but stand apart from Pindar’s. Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection It was not a hero of Plutarch's, but Pindar the poet, who was warned by Persephone that he had neglected to honour her by an ode. St. Ronan's Well This is one of the most artful and best conducted of Pindar’s Odes. An Essay on the Lyric Poetry of the Ancients Of the modern Music Hall I'm chosen Laureate, My cackle and my patter fill the Town; I'm more popular than Burns, a thing to glory at; My name is Pindar Boanerges Brown. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 104, January 21, 1893 Myrtis, a native of Anthedon, is reported to have been the instructress of Pindar, and is said to have contended with him for the palm of superiority. Woman's Work in Music Pindar, too, makes even the cadences of his dithyrambics keep time to the flute of Reason. Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection Pindar calls the beginnings of quarrel, "petals of quarrel." Proserpina, Volume 1 Studies Of Wayside Flowers Cicero in his most serious pieces studies the diction, and copies the manner of the Greek Philosopher; and it evidently appears, that Thucydides has taken many a glowing Metaphor from the Odes of Pindar. An Essay on the Lyric Poetry of the Ancients Athanasius Kircher, a Jesuit of a monastery in Sicily, published in the last century the text of what purported to be a fragment of the first Pythic Ode of Pindar. A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present She flourished about 490 B.C., and was a contemporary of Pindar. Woman's Work in Music And jealousy of Pindar, I suspect, made some poet persuade the archons to render the distinction a vile and worthless one, by placing his effigy near a king’s—one Evagoras of Cyprus. Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection I have composed the following ode upon it, which exceeds Pindar as much as the Jew's harp does the organ. Boswell's Correspondence with the Honourable Andrew Erskine, and His Journal of a Tour to Corsica This appears on many occasions to have been the case of Pindar. An Essay on the Lyric Poetry of the Ancients Pindar says:— 'Thank God! that monarchs cannot taste control, And make each subject's poor submissive soul Admire the works that judgment oft cries fie on! Art in England Notes and Studies But Pausanias, who states that she defeated Pindar no less than five times, thinks that her personal charms may have had something to do with the matter. Woman's Work in Music It is a gala day—the expected visit of Pindar. The Flutter of the Goldleaf; and Other Plays I thought I heard the harp of Pindar, and the impassioned song of the dark-eyed Sappho. Gov. Bob. Taylor's Tales The Reader will observe, that nothing has been said in this Essay on the regularity of the measure of Pindar’s Odes. An Essay on the Lyric Poetry of the Ancients This is quite in accord with the famous passage in Pindar, 54 attributing to the Corinthians the invention of pedimental composition. The American Journal of Archaeology, 1893-1 While teaching Pindar, Corinna once offered to beautify his earlier efforts with mythological allusions. Woman's Work in Music And again, a stern and more or less hopeless melancholy necessarily is under-current in the minds of the greatest men of all ages,—of Homer, Aeschylus, Pindar, or Shakespeare. Lectures on Landscape Delivered at Oxford in Lent Term, 1871 He could quote Homer and Pindar, and he had read Aristotle. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" They are spoken of by Pindar as the sons of Iphimedeia; and are supposed to have been slain by Apollo in the island Naxos. A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume II. (of VI.) The Grecian poet Pindar is the first who mentions its eruptions. The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, February 1844 Volume 23, Number 2 Pindar and others declare sufferings proceed from a beneficent object, 691-u. Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry An old play says that the shadows of things are better than the things themselves; and Pindar places man at two removes from them. Confessions of Boyhood Pindar'ic, after the style and manner of Pindar—a lyric poet of Greece. platon'ic, relating to the opinions or the school of Plato,—a philosopher of Greece, in the 4th century B.C. New Word-Analysis Or, School Etymology of English Derivative Words Pindar Please click on the image for a larger image. Raphael A Collection Of Fifteen Pictures And A Portrait Of The Painter With Introduction And Interpretation We find him in one letter mentioning the writing of an article on Pindar in the Quarterly Review, planning for a village-school on the Lancastrian principle, and endeavouring to improve the psalmody. Pioneers and Founders or, Recent Workers in the Mission field The Manicheans allowed five: Pindar, the same number as Plato; as did the Jews. Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry Feather'd king the Eagle of Jupiter, admirably described by Pindar in a passage here imitated by Gray. The Golden Treasury Of the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language There is a remarkable passage in the Scholia upon Pindar concerning Ham, under the name of Iamus, and also concerning his temple, which is represented as oracular. A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume I. Another group shows Pindar, a very aged figure, reciting his impassioned odes to Horace and another poet, who listen with admiration. Raphael A Collection Of Fifteen Pictures And A Portrait Of The Painter With Introduction And Interpretation The ethical perception, profound feeling, and searching mind of Pindar could not allow him to remain satisfied with the undiscriminating views of the future state prevalent in his time. The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life Remove the one name of Homer, and you bring the crowning glory of Grecian poetry at least three or four centuries later, to the era of Pindar, Æschylus, and Sophocles. Platform Monologues In this sense Pindar called Dionysus the πάρεδρος of Demeter, because the younger god had been admitted to her worship on equal terms at Eleusis. Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Third series Iamus, supposed by Pindar to have been the son of Apollo; but he was the same as Apollo and Osiris. A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume I. From Homer, the route stretches thus:—The Grecian drama lies about six hundred years nearer to the Christian era, and Pindar lies in the interval. The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey—Vol. 1 With a Preface and Annotations by James Hogg Among the preserved fragments of Pindar the one numbered two hundred and twenty three reads thus: "The bottom of Tartarus shall press thee down with solid necessities." The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life Pindar, Anacreon, Sappho, and Horace, are the great masters of lyric poetry among Heathen writers. The Poetical Works of Edward Young, Volume 2 A Greek poet could not have conceived them: unless we imagine to ourselves what Æschylus or Pindar, oppressed by long illness, and forgetful of the gods, might possibly have felt. Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Third series This we may learn from the Scholiast upon Pindar. A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume I. Add a little more than a century, and that will be the era of Pindar. The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey—Vol. 1 With a Preface and Annotations by James Hogg The one hundred and second fragment is supposed to be a part of the dirge composed by Pindar on the death of the grandfather of Pericles. The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life The conceit courses through the classical poetry of Greece from the time of Pindar, and through that of Italy from the time of Ennius. Shakespeare and the Modern Stage with Other Essays Pindar himself, of whom our modern Lyrist is an imitator, appears entirely guided by it. Early Reviews of English Poets Pindar, I believe, acclaimed it in one of his Epinikean odes; but I have not been able to verify the reference. Lore of Proserpine There was in the seventeenth century a notion prevalent about Pindar, the very contradiction to the truth. The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey—Vol. 1 With a Preface and Annotations by James Hogg Pindar affirms one origin for gods and men. The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life In the odes of Pindar, in the sixth century before Christ, we find records of eruptions. Outlines of the Earth's History A Popular Study in Physiography Many thanks, my dear Sir, for your handsome, elegant present to Mrs. Burns, and for my remaining volume of P. Pindar. The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham "In t'other world expect dry blows; No tears can wash thy stains out, Horace will pluck thee by the nose And Pindar beat thy brains out." History of English Humour, Vol. 1 With an Introduction upon Ancient Humour Not having read Pindar, no wonder that Pope should ascribe to Pindar qualities which are not only imaginary, but in absolute contradiction to his true ones. The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey—Vol. 1 With a Preface and Annotations by James Hogg One other fragment, the ninety sixth, added to the foregoing, will make up all the important genuine passages in Pindar relating to the future life. The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life Think of Pindar, &c.—"Σωφροσὑιη," according to Schopenhauer, has its roots in the clearness with which the Greeks saw into themselves and into the world at large, and thence became conscious of themselves. We Philologists Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche, Volume 8 Pindar at least repudiated the relics of the poorer cult, and cried concerning such stories as were current then, "Oh, my tongue, fling this tale from thee; it is a hateful cleverness that slanders gods." Among Famous Books Later the stars had come out in great clusters, and Messala, who now and then betrayed a knowledge of poetry and a gravity of thought that surprised his friends, had recited Pindar's lines:— ... Roads from Rome Now, the chief thing to say as to Pindar is—to show cause, good and reasonable, why no man of sense should trouble his head about him. The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey—Vol. 1 With a Preface and Annotations by James Hogg "Her similes," says he, "were drawn from the Bible and Pindar,—it was the eloquence of a Judith." History of the Girondists, Volume I Personal Memoirs of the Patriots of the French Revolution The raising of the present into the colossal and eternal, e.g., by Pindar. We Philologists Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche, Volume 8 From the days of Pindar there has been a brilliant succession of singers and worshippers of the sun, culminating in the matchless song of Shelley. Among Famous Books Then he had remembered what a revelation Pindar's lyric art had been to him amid the severe and lofty beauty of Greek scenery. Roads from Rome And the first bas-relief on Pindar's column is so pretty, that we shall quote it; especially as it suggested Gray's car for Dryden's 'less presumptuous flight!' The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey—Vol. 1 With a Preface and Annotations by James Hogg The man was, like Touchstone's Audrey, not poetical and yet a great poet has been pleased to address him, very much as Pindar might have addressed the Ancestral Hero of some mighty tyrant. The Wits and Beaux of Society Volume 1 In the preface, Drayton professes to be following Pindar, Anacreon, and Horace, though, as he modestly implies, at a great distance. Minor Poems of Michael Drayton This impulse of the imaginative faculty combined with the process of reason is most plainly seen in the conceptions of the three great poets of the fifth century, Pindar, Æschylus, and Sophocles. Myth and Science An Essay That night-ride had come back to Horace several years ago when he was writing his ode on Pindar, but to-day's memory seemed strangely different. Roads from Rome Poets of greatest renown celebrated them; Pindar, the most illustrious lyric poet of antiquity, has hardly done more than sing of chariot races. History Of Ancient Civilization Mr. Klein then placed a clean, but cropt, copy of the first Aldine Pindar before me; adding, that he understood it to be rare. A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume Three Pindar and Virgil were court favorites, repaying their patrons in golden song. Adventures in Criticism To her Pindar appeared in a dream and sang the hymn to Proserpine, which she wrote down from memory when she awoke. Greek and Roman Ghost Stories When I say this, I am not unmindful of the Royal copies here, and more particularly of the Pindar and Ovid in St. James's Place. A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume Two If it is, it is not particularly poetical. 85But Pindar is not, we now know, merely being “poetical,” which amounts, according to some scholars, to meaning anything or nothing. Ancient Art and Ritual His copies of Euripides, Pindar, Aratus, and Lycophron, are, or have been recently, extant, with marginal notes, proving that he weighed what he read. Life of John Milton The Greeks also boasted of their Pindar and Anacreon in lyric poetry; and of Aristophanes, Euripides, Sophocles, and Eschylus, in dramatic poetry. A Catechism of Familiar Things; Their History, and the Events Which Led to Their Discovery. With a Short Explanation of Some of the Principal Natural Phenomena. For the Use of Schools and Families. Enlarged and Revised Edition. Odes, written in imitation of the stile and manner of Pindar.Davedeis, a sacred poem of the troubles of David in four books. The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) Volume II Birth of Pindar, the chief lyric poet of Greece. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 01 Pindar wrote a Dithyramb for the Dionysiac festival at Athens, and his song is full of springtime and flowers. Ancient Art and Ritual The choric dances of Stesichorus and Pindar came strangely near our modern forms, but it was because the form fitted the poem. Critical and Historical Essays Lectures delivered at Columbia University The sea is the sea of Homer and Pindar. Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood Two of our greatest poets, after allowing Mr. Cowley to have been a successful imitator of Pindar, yet find fault with his numbers. The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) Volume II Antenor, who shares with Æneas the favorable sympathy of the Greeks, is said by Pindar to have gone from Troy along with Menelaus and Helen into the region of Cyrene in Libya. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 01 Pindar, in one of his Odes, asks a strange question: “Whence did appear the Graces of Dionysos, With the Bull-driving Dithyramb?” Ancient Art and Ritual It was such luxury as this that Pindar found at the court of Hiero, at Syracuse, whither Æschylus had retired after his defeat by Sophocles at the Dionysian Festival at Athens. Critical and Historical Essays Lectures delivered at Columbia University It has at least been the practice of men of genius, for in this very essay we find Timotheus, Euripides, and Pindar censured, though they deserved all the praise they gave themselves. Literary Character of Men of Genius Drawn from Their Own Feelings and Confessions They expressed much appreciation of the Romantic school, but their hearts were with Aeschylus and Pindar. A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century Indeed, Cowley had declared that in their freedom of structure and abruptness of transition the odes of Pindar were like nothing so much as the poetry of Israel. 'Of Genius', in The Occasional Paper, and Preface to The Creation Miss Fuller called his poetry thin, and the poet himself—or, rather, a portrait of the poet which frontispieced an illustrated edition of his works—a "dandy Pindar." Initial Studies in American Letters One of the earlier Spenserians was Gilbert West, the translator of Pindar, who published, in 1739, "On the Abuse of Travelling: A Canto in Imitation of Spenser." A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century With Pindar's music in me, I was ready for the two-mile. Tramping on Life An Autobiographical Narrative It is grown in Jamaica, and there called Pindar nut. The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c. Pindar's fine remark respecting the different effects of music on different characters, holds equally true of genius: so many as are not delighted by it are disturbed, perplexed, irritated. Autobiography, Letters and Literary Remains of Mrs. Piozzi (Thrale) (2nd ed.) (2 vols.) Edited with notes and Introductory Account of her life and writings Alexander rased it to the ground; but spared the house and family of Pindar. A Dialogue Concerning Oratory, Or The Causes Of Corrupt Eloquence The Works Of Cornelius Tacitus, Volume 8 (of 8); With An Essay On His Life And Genius, Notes, Supplements The seventeenth century comprehended Homer no better than Pindar. A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century I could not sleep so I read a poor translation of the odes of Pindar. Tramping on Life An Autobiographical Narrative But the author who most completely mastered him, and whom he most completely mastered, was Pindar. The Life of Froude The parables of the Prodigal Son and the Good Samaritan were stronger than Homer's divine song and Pindar's lofty hymns. Ten Great Religions An Essay in Comparative Theology The rhetoricians, he says, came originally from Asia; they were, however, neither known to Pindar, and the nine lyric poets, nor to Plato, or Demosthenes. A Dialogue Concerning Oratory, Or The Causes Of Corrupt Eloquence The Works Of Cornelius Tacitus, Volume 8 (of 8); With An Essay On His Life And Genius, Notes, Supplements In her isolation she had doubtless carried something of that old life down; and then, too, she had Pindar. The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 In Homer we often read a hundred verses without a single beauty, and just so in Dante; while Pindar, whom all admire so much, drives me to distraction with his ecstacies. Memories A Story of German Love It has been suggested that in the paradise of Yama over the mountains there is a companion-piece to the hyperboreans, whose felicity is described by Pindar. The Religions of India Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume 1, Edited by Morris Jastrow In the Belvedere Apollo we see expressed at once the genius of Homer, Aristotle, Herodotus, Aeschylus, Pindar, Thales, and Plato. Ten Great Religions An Essay in Comparative Theology It was founded somewhere in the seventh century B.C. and Pindar, in an ode written about 466 B.C., mentions a great processional highway there. Ancient Town-Planning But in sooth he was not merely for an age, but for all time; and his message, unlike Pindar's whom all Greece worshiped, and far more than Homer's or that of Sophocles—is vital today. The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 But "Not fire, not walls of iron can hinder fate," as Pindar says. Plutarch's Lives, Volume II Like Pindar, we may abridge the tale of Jason. Custom and Myth Pindar seems to have understood this when he says, about the battle at Artemisium, that there "The sons of Athena laid Their freedom's grand foundation." for indeed confidence leads to victory. Plutarch's Lives, Volume I Whoever endeavors, O Iulus, to rival Pindar, makes an effort on wings fastened with wax by art Daedalean, about to communicate his name to the glassy sea. The Works of Horace This was what Pindar taught—all-worshiped prosperous Pindar, Aeschylus' contemporary, the darling poet of the Greeks. The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 Then I recognized the Fortunate Islands spoken of by Pindar, and the paradise of the Greeks. In the Wrong Paradise Already in Pindar we find him singled out for disapproval. Stories from the Odyssey And Pindar says of them— "Where the old are wise in council, And the young are brave in fight; Where song and dance are honoured On many a festal night." Plutarch's Lives, Volume I You have undone Horace,—what should hinder Thy Muse from falling upon Pindar? The Poems of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Volume 2 The priestesses of Cyprus burnt incense on her altars and invoked her sacred aid, but at the same time Pindar addresses them as "young girls who welcome all strangers and give them hospitality." Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 Sex in Relation to Society The respect paid to the memory of Pindar, by the Spartans, and by Alexander the Great, when they conquered Thebes, is a striking instance of the truth of this observation. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels - Volume 18 Historical Sketch of the Progress of Discovery, Navigation, and Commerce, from the Earliest Records to the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century, By William Stevenson And the tones of literature range from Isaiah to Wycherley, from Thucydides to Tolstoy; its forms from Pindar to a folk song, from Racine to Rudyard Kipling, from Gibbon to Herodotus or Froissart. Cambridge Essays on Education Pindar, the most passionate of poets, drove and pressed his feelings through the convolutions of the ode. Since Cézanne Again, considerable portions of his lyric verse consist merely of prose, cut into lines of different length, in imitation of the unrhymed measures of the Greek poet, Pindar. Matthew Arnold's Sohrab and Rustum and Other Poems "Wise master mariners," wrote the Greek poet, Pindar, long before, "know the wind that shall blow on the third day, and are not wrecked for headlong greed of gain." The Jesus of History Pindar is more priestlike than patriarchal, more epic than lyrical. Prefaces and Prologues to Famous Books with Introductions, Notes and Illustrations A Deborah must always be a spiritual mother in Israel; a Corinna may be excluded from the Olympic games, yet all men will hear her song, and a Pindar sit at her feet. Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Volume II And is not the "prent book" a good beacon-light to tell where we wait the bark?—a reputation, the means of entering the Olympic game, where Pindar may perchance be encountered? Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Volume I In picturesqueness Dante is beyond all other poets, ancient or modern, and more in the stern style of Pindar than of any other. Essays Æsthetical In form and spirit they resemble both the poems of the Hebrew psalter and the lyrics of Pindar. Sacred Books of the East Thus Pindar says of himself: "There is many an arrow in my quiver, full of speech to the wise, but, for the many, they need interpreters." The Queen of the Air Being a Study of the Greek Myths of Cloud and Storm Take the eminent masters of style, the poets who best give the idea of what the peculiar power which lies in style is—Pindar, Virgil, Dante, Milton. Selections from the Prose Works of Matthew Arnold He prefers Virgil to Homer, and Horace to Pindar, and can, upon occasion, enter into a dissertation on the precise meaning of a "Simplex munditiis." The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 541, April 7, 1832 His business is with the succeeding ages of men, not with all time; but Hyperion might have been written on the morrow of Salamis, and the Odes of Pindar dedicated to George the Fourth. Books and Characters French and English His proverbial wisdom, and the forms of verse which he often chose, are reputed to have been like Pindar's. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 1 But, while Greece retained these relics of savagery, there was something taught at Eleusis which filled minds like Plato's and Pindar's with a happy religious awe. The Making of Religion Corin`na, a poetess of ancient Greece, born in Boeotia; friend and rival of Pindar; only a few fragments of her poetry remain. The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge This was the residence of Sir Paul Pindar, diplomatist, during the time of Charles I., and it contained a carved oak chimney-piece, with some other good ornamental woodwork of this period. Illustrated History of Furniture From the Earliest to the Present Time Mr. Oldisworth observes, that he had seen about ten sheets of Pindar translated into English, which, he says, exceeded any thing of that kind, he could ever hope for in our language. The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) Volume IV A reviewer on the staff of a famous journal once received for his week's task, General Hamley on the Art of War, a three-volume novel, a work on dainty dishes, and a translation of Pindar. Studies in Literature We have no one to place by Pindar, or the exquisite Theocritus. Venetia In another minute he was forth into the storm, pursuing what remained of his long march to Pindar's Bield. J. S. Le Fanu's Ghostly Tales, Volume 3 Pindar, Johnson asks Boswell to get him a copy, ii. Life of Johnson, Volume 6 Addenda, index, dicta philosophi, etc. A wanton Sappho, or Anacreon, among the ancients, never had the same applause, as a Pindar, or Alexis; nor in the judgment of Horace did they deserve it. The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) Volume IV Pindar has embalmed the names of many victors in his Olympic, Pythian, and other odes. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 19, May, 1859 The modern world is badly in need of a Pindar. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, June 25, 1919 Nevertheless, the fashion spread, and "he who could do nothing else," said Dr. Johnson, "could write like Pindar." From Chaucer to Tennyson Then came the Service Hall, containing frescoes illustrating Homer, by Schnorr, and the Throne Hall, with Schwanthaler's bas-reliefs of the songs of Pindar, on a ground of gold. Views a-foot And I think the same situation would be involved if the critic were concerned to point out that Pindar was scandalously immoral, pestilently cynical, or low and beastly in his views of life. All Things Considered Pliny tells us that Alexander, when he besieged Thebes, spared the house in which Pindar the poet was born, out of reverence to his great abilities. Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook The wealthy merchant, Sir Paul Pindar, had a diamond valued at thirty thousand pounds, which he lent to the king on great occasions, but refused to sell. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 390, September 19, 1829 My warmest thanks are due you for sending me the Odes of Pindar in translation; they have given a very pleasant hour of recreation to Riemer and myself. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 02 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes The harp of Homer, the trump of Pindar and of Alcaeus are still. The Spirit of the Age Contemporary Portraits The man who would not praise Pindar unless he had read him would be a low, distrustful fellow, the worst kind of sceptic, who doubts not only God, but man. All Things Considered Prophecy and taste were combined in Homer,—Isaiah and the king's jester in Pindar. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 34, August, 1860 Great scholars and thinkers of old, such as Horace, Homer, Pindar, Tasso, and all the glorious line, dreamt of flight, but it has been left for the present century to see those dreams fulfilled. The Mastery of the Air They liked to hear a man recite the stately poetry of Homer and Pindar. The Story of Mankind The library of Bufo is by Pope described, where busts of poets dead, And a true Pindar stood without a head. Thoughts on Man, His Nature, Productions and Discoveries Interspersed with Some Particulars Respecting the Author I think a man may praise Pindar without knowing the top of a Greek letter from the bottom. All Things Considered Let us believe with Pindar, that All human bodies yield to Death's decree, The soul survives to all eternity. Plutarch: Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans What, unless again and again he had read somewhat of Parthenius and Pindar, whose eloquence he could by no means imitate? The Love of Books The Philobiblon of Richard de Bury When the two cavaliers had approached within the length of three javelins, first Cowley threw a lance, which missed Pindar, and, passing into the enemy’s ranks, fell ineffectual to the ground. The Battle of the Books and other Short Pieces Sir Julian Pindar, the old British Minister, stopped him, and she watched them as they laughed together over the English war medals on the American's breast, which Sir Julian touched with his finger. Soldiers of Fortune Like Cephalus, he is limited in his point of view, and represents the proverbial stage of morality which has rules of life rather than principles; and he quotes Simonides as his father had quoted Pindar. The Republic "Mars," as says Timotheus, "is the tyrant;" but Law, in Pindar's words, the king of all. Plutarch: Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans Ridley was bringing out the third volume of Pindar when Willoughby was launching his first ship. The Voyage Out “Dog!” said Pindar, “let your ransom stay with your friends; but your carcase shall be left for the fowls of the air and the beasts of the field.” The Battle of the Books and other Short Pieces It is like what Pindar says of music; if it does not give delight, it is sure to agitate and oppress the heart. Philothea A Grecian Romance Lumbering develops such men as Pindar saw when he pictured Jason, his forest hero. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 58, August, 1862 I have seen about ten sheets of his English Pindar, which exceeded any thing of that kind I could ever hope for in our own language. Lives of the Poets, Volume 1 "One evening," says F. T. Palgrave of the poet, "he read out, offhand, Pindar's great picture of the life of Heaven, in the Second Olympian, into pure modern prose splendidly lucid and musical." A Writer's Recollections — Volume 2 When Xerxes invaded Greece, Pindar was true to the common interest of his country; though his fellow-citizens, the Thebans, had sold themselves to the Persian king. Poetical Works of Akenside Old Pindar never saw our little pet, this darling of the New World; yet he says,— "Were it the will of Heaven, an osier-bough Were vessel safe enough the seas to plough." The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 32, June, 1860 Four swans sustain a car of silver bright, 210 With heads advanced, and pinions stretch'd for flight: Here, like some furious prophet, Pindar rode, And seem'd to labour with the inspiring god. The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1 The reader of this will be inclined to cry out, with Prior, Ye criticks, say, How poor to this was Pindar's style! Lives of the Poets, Volume 1 Sophocles, Euripides, Pindar, the great lyricists, Plato, Demosthenes, Thucydides, Hyperides, all the great classics, these are the true models for the young orator. Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal That Pindar should have equally distinguished himself from the rest of his fellow-citizens in both these respects seems somewhat extraordinary, and is scarce to be accounted for but by the preceding observation. Poetical Works of Akenside Instances of the ode are the lyrics of Pindar and David. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 22, August, 1859 A mystic Platonism, which taught that Pindar's story of the Argo was only a recipe for the philosopher's stone, fascinated him at fourteen. Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene Of his Pindar, mentioned by Oldisworth, I have never otherwise heard. Lives of the Poets, Volume 1 After his death the power passed to his brother Hiero, whose victories in the Olympian and Pythian Games are commemorated in the Odes of Pindar. Stories from Thucydides This whole passage, concerning the effects of sacred music among the gods, is taken from Pindar's first Pythian ode. Poetical Works of Akenside Nothing can be preserved which is not good; and I know beforehand that Pindar, Martial, Terence, Galen, Kepler, Galileo, Bacon, Erasmus, More, will be superior to the average intellect. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 03, January, 1858 Quickly returning, he took vengeance on the Thebans by razing their city to the ground, sparing only the temples and Pindar's house, and by selling its thirty thousand inhabitants into slavery. Outline of Universal History His endeavour was, not to show "precisely what Pindar spoke, but his manner of speaking." Lives of the Poets, Volume 1 While Horace's thefts from Alcaeus or Pindar are palpable, even from the care which he takes to Latinise them, Milton cannot help transfusing his own nature into the words he adopts. Milton In the time of Aeschylus, Thebes was, of course, a notable city, his great contemporary Pindar was a citizen of it. Suppliant Maidens and Other Plays My Muse will gladly accept this gift; but engrave these verses of Pindar's on your mind. The Eleven Comedies, Volume 2 Simonides was tender and polished; Pindar, fervid and sublime The extant works of Pindar are the Epinicia, or odes of victory. Outline of Universal History The spirit of Pindar is, indeed, not every where equally preserved. Lives of the Poets, Volume 1 A Corinna may be excluded from the Olympic games, yet all men will hear her song, and a Pindar sit at her feet. Woman in the Ninteenth Century and Kindred Papers Relating to the Sphere, Condition and Duties, of Woman. PINDAR.—Pindar, the Theban, broadened and extended the lyrical type. Initiation into Literature You cannot interpret classic marbles without knowing and loving your Pindar and Æschylus, neither can you interpret Christian pictures without knowing and loving your Isaiah and Matthew. Val d'Arno He thinks it comparatively modern, but I suspect it is as old as the first child that ever bestrode his father's staff, and fancied it into a courser shod with wind, like those of Pindar. Among My Books First Series He has given not the same numbers, but the same diction, to the gentle Anacreon and the tempestuous Pindar. Lives of the Poets, Volume 1 In fact, there are the popular, the sacerdotal, and the mysterious religions of Greece, represented roughly by Homer, Pindar, and Æschylus. Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge In picturesqueness, Dante is beyond all other poets, modern or ancient, and more in the stern style of Pindar, than of any other. Literary Remains, Volume 1 The other species of ode, the "Dorian," is more complex, and is associated with the triumphal odes of Pindar. A Study of Poetry The poems of Monti have much of the fire and elevation of Pindar. Handbook of Universal Literature From the Best and Latest Authorities He was, therefore, not at all restrained to his expressions, nor much to his sentiments; nothing was required of him, but not to write as Pindar would not have written. Lives of the Poets, Volume 1 |
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