Classic And Historic Portraits
Classic And Historic Portraits
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It abounds in eloquent passages, and warlike as it is, it is yet pervaded by a womanly spirit. Dion makes her draw a con- trast between the simple lives of her countt-ymen and the vices of Eome, and it is drawn with much beauty. The sighijig * Dion, "Hist." lib. Lxn, p. 701.
t Tacitus, «« Annales," lib. xiv, c. 81. • Digitized by VjOOQIC 120 CLASSIC AND HISTOBIO POBTBAITS.
after a simple and savage life is characteristic of ages of over- refinement and vicious cultivation.
In early and rude age...s when poets, writing in refined times, would have us to believe that men employed themselves in lying on the banks of rivers and under the shades of trees, playing on pipes, and sighing out their souls ii^ love, — ^while the women, on their part, were similarly disengaged and simi- larly subjected to all the softer and sweeter influences, — ^the real occupation of the men, in which they were often heartily joined by the women, if any reliance is to be placed in the songs of contemporary bards, was fighting battles, cutting throats, giving and taking of hard blows and knocks, and kicks and cufifs, besides abusing each other vehemently with their tongues, and telling and swearing to all manner of horri- ble lies, and taking every possible advantage of each other.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
It abounds in eloquent passages, and warlike as it is, it is yet pervaded by a womanly spirit. Dion makes her draw a con- trast between the simple lives of her countt-ymen and the vices of Eome, and it is drawn with much beauty. The sighijig * Dion, "Hist." lib. Lxn, p. 701.
t Tacitus, «« Annales," lib. xiv, c. 81. • Digitized by VjOOQIC 120 CLASSIC AND HISTOBIO POBTBAITS.
after a simple and savage life is characteristic of ages of over- refinement and vicious cultivation.
In early and rude age...s when poets, writing in refined times, would have us to believe that men employed themselves in lying on the banks of rivers and under the shades of trees, playing on pipes, and sighing out their souls ii^ love, — ^while the women, on their part, were similarly disengaged and simi- larly subjected to all the softer and sweeter influences, — ^the real occupation of the men, in which they were often heartily joined by the women, if any reliance is to be placed in the songs of contemporary bards, was fighting battles, cutting throats, giving and taking of hard blows and knocks, and kicks and cufifs, besides abusing each other vehemently with their tongues, and telling and swearing to all manner of horri- ble lies, and taking every possible advantage of each other.
What to read after Classic And Historic Portraits?
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