 | Karl Otfried Müller - 1840 - 420 strani
...serious and pathetic a spectacle as tragedy could never have originated in the choruses of these satyrs. The desire of escaping from self, into something new and strange, of living in an imaginary world, breaks forth in a thousand instances in these festivals of Bacchus. It is seen in the colouring the... | |
 | Greek antiquities - 1842 - 1156 strani
...serious and pathetic a spectacle as tragedy could never have originated in the choruses of these satyrs. The desire of escaping from self into something new and strange, of living in an imaginary world, breaks forth in a thousand instances in these festivals of Dionysus. It is seen in the colouring the... | |
 | William Smith, Charles Anthon - 1843 - 1142 strani
...serious and pathetic a spectacle as tragedy could never have originated in the choruses of these satyrs. The desire of escaping from self into something new and strange, of living in an imaginary world, breaks forth in a thousand instances in these festivals of Dionysus. It is seen in the colouring the... | |
 | Karl Otfried Müller - 1847 - 584 strani
...serious and pathetic a spectacle as tragedy could never have originated in the choruses of these satyrs. The desire of escaping from self, into something new and strange, of living in an imaginary world, breaks forth in a thousand instances in these festivals of Bacchus. It is seen in the colouring the... | |
 | William Smith - 1859 - 1334 strani
...serious and pathetic a spectacle aa tragedy could never lave originated in the choruses of these satyrs. The desire of escaping from self into something new and strange, of living in an imaginary world, ireoks forth in a thousand instances in these "estivals of Dionysus. It is seen in the colouring ;he... | |
 | 1861 - 774 strani
...one remarkable characteristic, namely, that enthusiasm formed an essential part of it. There was a desire of escaping from self into something new and strange, of living in an imaginary world. Hence probably it was that the Greek drama arose out of the worship of Bacchus. Another point worthy... | |
 | William Smith - 1870 - 1312 strani
...serious and pathetic a spectacle as tragedy could never have originated in the choruses of these satyrs. The desire of escaping from self into something new and strange, of living in an imaginary world, breaks forth in a thousand instances in these festivals of Dionysus. It is seen in the colouring the... | |
 | Euripides - 1871 - 306 strani
...an impassioned sympathy with the events of nature, in connexion with the course of the seasons. .... The desire of escaping from self, into something new and strange, of living in an imaginary world, breaks forth in a thousand instances in these festivals of Bacchus."— Müll. Hist. Gr. Lit. i. 389.... | |
 | Charles Kingsley - 1875 - 168 strani
...of Rome is perhaps the last paltry and unmeaning relic. ' When,' as the learned O. Miiller says, ' the desire of escaping from self into something new...living in an imaginary world, broke forth in a thousand ways ; not merely in revelry and solemn, though fantastic songs, but in a hundred disguises, imitating... | |
 | Charles Kingsley - 1880 - 448 strani
...Rome is perhaps the last paltry and unmeaning relic — " when," as the learned 0. Miiller says, " the desire of escaping from self into something new...living in an imaginary world, broke forth in a thousand ways ; not merely in revelry and solemn though fantastic songs, but in a hundred disguises, imitating... | |
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Bacchus, of taking the disguise of satyrs, doubtless originated in this feeling, and not in the mere desire of concealing excesses under the disguise of a mask ; otherwise, so serious and pathetic a spectacle as tragedy could never have originated in... 
