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Updated: June 12, 2025
Somewhat the same lesson as that of the Oresteia is taught later, with more of sweetness and harmony, but not with more force, in the Oedipus Coloneus of Sophokles. And in Pindar we see the same tendencies inchoate. Like Aeschylus he does by implication subordinate to morality both politics and religion.
'No books to-day! no more Tibullus! no more Pindar for me! Pindar! alas, alas! the very name recalls those games to which our arena is the savage successor. Has it begun the amphitheatre? are its rites commenced? 'Long since, O Sallust! Did you not hear the trumpets and the trampling feet? 'Ay, ay; but the gods be thanked, I was drowsy, and had only to turn round to fall asleep again.
To this Pindar adds the petition that, "being dead I may set upon my children a name that shall be of no ill report."
In his isolation and elevation Pindar stands like some fabled heaven-aspiring peak, conspicuous from afar, girdled at the base with ice and snow, beaten by winds, wreathed round with steam and vapor, jutting a sharp and dazzling outline into cold blue ether. Few things that have life dare to visit him at his grand altitude.
Inchbold, "Peter Pindar," and last, but by no means least, the Prince of Wales. Not that she really talked with royalty, but she saw the Prince at the opera; and she tells us that she admired him very much. Indeed, she did not mind owning that she loved grand company, and she certainly enjoyed clever company, for she much relished and appreciated the society of both Mrs. Opie and Mrs. Inchbald.
"And, says the anatomic art, The stomach's very near the heart;" as Peter Pindar also maintains. Some also, with an accuracy worthy Moubrays treatise on domestic fowls, have informed us that the hens near the fountain of Vaucluse are peculiarly prolific in fine eggs, and so on.
"Men of our occupation must make fair weather of it, or we had better be doing nothing." "So I often tell my owners, but 'go ahead' is the order. When I was a youngster, a ship remained in port for a fair wind; but, now, she goes to work and makes one. The world seems to get young, as I get old." "This is a rum litterateur," Gray whispered to Pindar.
The simplicity of Menander's style is the simplicity of prose, and is the same kind of simplicity as that which Goethe's style, in the passage I have quoted, exhibits; but Menander does not belong to a great poetical moment, he comes too late for it; it is the simple passages in poets like Pindar or Dante which are perfect, being masterpieces of poetical simplicity.
Well, I shan't forget what you've done, Minnie. I didn't come back to Foxon Falls to talk to you again, Mrs. Pindar. I'm sorry, but I've got to go. AUGUSTA. Where? MINNIE. You didn't care yesterday why should you care today? I ought to tell you that Dr. Pindar has declined Mr. Pindar's offer. MINNIE. He isn't going to take charge of the hospital? AUGUSTA. No.
When people brought such attacks against the morality of Pindar, I should regret that they could not read Greek; and when they bring such attacks against the morality of Fielding, I regret very much that they cannot read English. There seems to be an extraordinary idea abroad that Fielding was in some way an immoral or offensive writer.
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