"Thespis" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Greece. Its effect upon literature was of course enormous. It can be traced in various ways. By the content of the literature, which now begins to be filled with the heroic saga. By a change of style which emerges in, say, Pindar and Aeschylus when compared with what we know of Corinna or Thespis. More objectively and definitely it can be traced in a remarkable change of dialect. The old Attic poets, like Solon, were comparatively little affected by the epic influence; the later elegists, like Ion, Euenus, and Plato, were ...
— Five Stages of Greek Religion • Gilbert Murray
... to satirical attacks upon actors and the stage as a whole. His Rosciad created quite a panic among the disciples of Thespis, even the mighty Garrick courting this terrible censor morum. His own morals were ...
— English Satires • Various
... telling long yarns. There was one stout, moon-faced gentleman laying on his broad back "spouting" Shakspeare. This individual, to whom I was introduced, turned out to be Sergeant Smith, another son of Thespis, who had left the boards for a more permanent engagement, not with the enemy, for those were days of peace, but with that stern old manager, Uncle Sam. Sergeant Smith was, perhaps, the most important person in his own ...
— Graham's Magazine Vol XXXII No. 6 June 1848 • Various
... Phoenix! Dost thou not know it? The bird of Paradise, song's sacred swan! It sat on the car of Thespis, like a croaking raven, and flapped its black, dregs-besmeared wings; over Iceland's minstrel-harp glided the swan's red, sounding bill. It sat on Shakspeare's shoulder like Odin's raven, and whispered in his ear: "Immortality!" It ...
— Pictures of Sweden • Hans Christian Andersen
... —, idle tears Temple, nothing ill can dwell in such a Temples, groves were God's first Tenderly, take her up Tenor, noiseless, of their way Terror, there is no, in your threats Text, a rivulet of That it should come to this Theban, talk with this learned There, 't is neither here nor Thespis, the first professor of our art Thetis, lap of They conquer love that run away Thick and thin, to dash through Thief in the night, will come as a —doth 'fear each bush Thing, acting of a dreadful ...
— Familiar Quotations • Various
... lunch-counter that made immediateness a specialty, he would clothe himself in evening raiment as correct as any you will see in the palm rooms. Then he would betake himself to that ravishing, radiant roadway devoted to Thespis, ...
— Sixes and Sevens • O. Henry
... the sly god have been lately busy among our gallant Solons. We quote 'one more unfortunate.' The latest victim is the Hon. C. Starbottle of Calaveras. The fair enchantress in the case is a beautiful widow, a former votary of Thespis, and lately a fascinating St. Cecilia of one of the most fashionable churches of San Francisco, where she commanded a ...
— Selected Stories • Bret Harte
... Euripides, and in Sophocles still more; but they have many more defects. One dares say that the beautiful scenes of Corneille and the touching tragedies of Racine surpass the tragedies of Sophocles and Euripides as much as these two Greeks surpass Thespis. Racine was quite conscious of his great superiority over Euripides; but he praised the Greek poet in ...
— Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary • Voltaire
... numeros, et Laudavere sales; nimium patienter utrumque (Ne dicam stulte) mirati: si modo ego et vos Scimus inurbanum lepido seponere dicto, Legitimumque sonum digitis callemus et aure. Ignotum tragicae genus invenisse Camenae Dicitur, et plaustris vexisse poemata Thespis Quae canerent agerentque, peruncti faecibus ora. Shall I then all regard, all labour slight, Break loose at once, and all at random write? Or shall I fear that all my faults descry, Viewing my errors with an Eagle eye, And thence correctness ...
— The Art Of Poetry An Epistle To The Pisos - Q. Horatii Flacci Epistola Ad Pisones, De Arte Poetica. • Horace
... inclined to gratify her with wonders. He had sold her a model of the Alexandrian library, a specimen of the original type invented by Memnon the Egyptian, and a manuscript of the first play acted by Thespis. These had not exhausted the stock of the dealer: he possessed the skin of a giraffe killed in the Roman amphitheatre; the head of King Arthur's spear; and the breech of the first cannon fired at the siege of ...
— Blackwoods Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 366, April, 1846 • Various |
