 | John Brown - 1801 - 432 Seiten
...proceeds next to the Cafe of SOCRATES. He owns " the So" CRATES of ARISTOPHANES is as truly ri" diculous a Character as ever was drawn : *< But it is not the Character of SOCRATES, " the divine Moralift and Father of ancient " Wifdom." — No indeed : and here lay the Wickednefs... | |
 | Mark Akenside, Thomas Park - 1808 - 358 Seiten
...in allowing those circumstances to impose upon us : but the sense of ridicule always judges right. The Socrates of Aristophanes is as truly ridiculous a character as ever was drawn : — True; but it is not the character of Socrates, the divine moralist and father of ancient wisdom.... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 622 Seiten
...in allowing those circumstances to impose upon us : but the sense of ridicule always judges right. doubtful hope : Though sorely buffettcd by ev'ry sea, Our hull unbroken long may : — true; but it is not the character of Socrates, the divine moralist and father of ancient wis'lom.... | |
 | William Warburton - 1811 - 444 Seiten
...society by the abuse of ridicule, but .of the injury to ridicule itself. ._ But let us hear him out : The Socrates of Aristophanes is- as truly ridiculous a character as ever was drawn. True ; but it is not the character o/' Socrates, the divine moralist, and father of ancient wisdom.... | |
 | William Warburton, Richard Hurd - 1811 - 454 Seiten
...to society by the abuse of ridicule, but of the injury to ridicule itself. But let us hear him out : The Socrates of Aristophanes is as truly' ridiculous a character as ever was drawn. True; but it is not the character of Socrates, the divine moralist, and father of ancient wisdom. Indeed!... | |
 | Mark Akenside - 1818 - 210 Seiten
...in allowing those circumstances to impose upon us : but the sense of ridicule always judges right. The Socrates of Aristophanes is as truly ridiculous a character as ever was drawn : — true ; but it is not the character of Socrates, the divine moralist and father of ancient wisdom.... | |
 | Mark Akenside - 1818 - 216 Seiten
...in allowing those circumstances to impose upon us : but the sense of ridicule always judges right. The Socrates of Aristophanes is as truly ridiculous a character as ever was drawn : — true ; but it is not the character of Socrates, the divine moralist and father of ancient wisdom.... | |
 | Mark Akenside - 1835 - 416 Seiten
...in allowing those circumstances to impose upon us : but the sense of ridicule always judges right. The Socrates of Aristophanes is as truly ridiculous a character as ever was drawn : — true ; but it is not the character of Socrates, the divine moralist and father of ancient wisdom.... | |
 | Mark Akenside - 1838 - 352 Seiten
...in allowing those circumstances to impose upon us : but the sense of ridicule always judges right. The Socrates of Aristophanes is as truly ridiculous a character as ever was drawn : — True ; but it is not the character of Socrates, the divine moralist and father of ancient wisdom.... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1840 - 528 Seiten
...that on so important a point Akenside had been consulted. 1 shall give it in his own words : — " The Socrates of Aristophanes is as truly ridiculous...that was the real character of Socrates, not from any error in the faculty of ridicule itself." — Dyson then states the fact, as it concerned Socrates.... | |
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The Socrates of Aristophanes is as truly ridiculous a character as ever was drawn: — true; but it is not the character of Socrates, the divine moralist and father of ancient wisdom. What then? did the ridicule of the poet hinder the philosopher from... 
