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Nor is there any nobler figure in history than that of Epameinondas. One fact indeed there is which must always make the thought of Pindar's Theban citizenship painful to us, and that is the shameful part taken by Thebes in the Persian war, when compulsion of her exposed situation, and oligarchical cabal within her walls, drew her into unholy alliance with the barbarian invader.
The simplicity of the style and manner of composition are significant of this. But there can scarcely be said to be traces here of Pindar's early tendency in dealing with mythological allusions to 'sow not with the hand but with the whole sack, which Korinna advised him to correct, and which is conspicuous in a fragment remaining to us of one of his Hymns.
Jacobean furniture. Charles Eastlake Monuments at Canterbury and Westminster Settles, Couches, and Chairs of the Stuart period Sir Paul Pindar's House Cromwellian Furniture The Restoration Indo-Portuguese Furniture Hampton Court Palace Evelyn's description The Great Fire of London Hall of the Brewers' Company Oak Panelling of the time Grinling Gibbons and his work The Edict of Nantes Silver Furniture at Knole William III. and Dutch influence Queen Anne Sideboards, Bureaus, and Grandfather's Clocks Furniture at Hampton Court.
But it is not probable, since Pindar's road seems hardly to have been inside the city at all. For Pindar's reference see Pyth. v. 90 and p. 16 above. In these two cases and in one or two others which might be noted from the same or later times, the town-scheme includes rectangular elements without any strict resemblance to the chess-board pattern.
Upper right, at the end of the wall, is a glass door looking out on the lawn. There is another door, lower right, and a door, lower left, leading into ASHER PINDAR'S study. A marble mantel, which holds a clock and certain ornaments, is just beyond this door. The wall spaces on the right and left are occupied by high bookcases filled with respectable volumes in calf and dark cloth bindings.
It is only by a metaphor like this that any attempt to realize the Sturm and Drang of Pindar's style can be communicated.
Although the eminent men who visited his court have much to say in praise of Hiero, Pindar, especially, was too honest and independent to ignore his faults. As GROTE says, "Pindar's indirect admonitions and hints sufficiently attest the real character of Hiero." Of these, the following lines from the Pythian ode may be taken as a sample: The lightest word that falls from thee, O King!
Again, Pindar's Caeneus is not wounded when struck; but the Stoics' wise man is not detained when shut up in a prison, suffers no compulsion by being thrown down a precipice, is not tortured when on the rack, takes no hurt by being maimed, and when he catches a fall in wrestling he is still unconquered; when he is encompassed with a vampire, he is not besieged; and when sold by his enemies, he is still not made a prisoner.
Those love songs have not ceased in Covent Garden; the amorous duets are to be heard to this day from the throats of countless costermongers' donkeys. But they disturb Peter Pindar's tuneful soul no more as he lies in his grave near by. It would be a grave injustice to the Hummums to overlook the fact that it possessed a ghost-story of its own. Its subject was Dr.
He told us what had become of the eighty-three lost tragedies of AEschylus; of the fifty-four orations of Isaeus; of the three hundred and ninety-one speeches of Lysias; of the hundred and eighty treatises of Theophrastus; of the eighth book of the conic sections of Apollonius; of Pindar's hymns and dithyrambics; and of the five and forty tragedies of Homer Junior.
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