 | Karl Otfried Müller - Greek literature - 1840 - 420 pages
...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 pages
...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 - Classical dictionaries - 1843 - 1142 pages
...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 - Greek literature - 1847 - 584 pages
...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 - Classical dictionaries - 1859 - 1334 pages
...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... | |
 | Social sciences - 1861 - 774 pages
...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... | |
 | Anne Charlotte Lynch Botta - Literature - 1863 - 764 pages
...of their divinity. The desire of escaping from self into something new and strange, of living in au imaginary world, broke forth in a thousand instances...learned writers of antiquity agree in stating that tragedy, as well as comedy, was originally a choral song. The action, the adventure of the gods, was... | |
 | William Smith - Classical antiquities - 1870 - 1312 pages
...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 pages
...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 - America - 1875 - 168 pages
...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... | |
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... 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. 
