 | Oliver Goldsmith - Greece - 1774 - 416 pages
...were extremely fond of them ; fo that when they returned to their own country, they went and faluted that poet as their deliverer, and informed him of...the admirable effects wrought in their favour by his ver fes. The news of the defeat being carried to Athens, the citizens would not believe it at firfr,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - Greece - 1805 - 350 pages
...extremely fond of them ; so that when they returned to their own country, they went and saluted that paet as their deliverer; and informed him of the admirable...the defeat 'being carried to Athens, the •citizens would not believe it at first ; and were so far from giving credit to the report, that they sentenced... | |
 | Charles Rollin - History, Ancient - 1805 - 408 pages
...were extremely fond of them ; so that when they returned to their ow» country, they went and sainted that poet as their deliverer, and informed him of...wrought in their favour by his verses. * The news of this defeat being carried to Athens, the citizens would not believe it at first, and were so far from... | |
 | Charles Rollin - History, Ancient - 1808 - 684 pages
...fate. Their wisdom, their patience, and a certain air of probity and modesty, were of great ad vantage to them ; for they were soon restored to their liberty,...admirable effects wrought in their favour by his verses. b The news of this defeat being carried to Athens, the citizens would not believe it at first, and... | |
 | George Horne - English essays - 1808 - 320 pages
...of Euripides, which they repeated to their captors, who were extremely fond of them. On their return they went and saluted that poet as their deliverer,...admirable effects wrought in their favour by his verses. Scarce any circumstance could be more pleasing and flattering than this testimony. EXERCISE. THE most... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - Greece - 1814 - 578 pages
...saluted that poet as their, deliverer, and informed him of the ad-- mirable effects wrought in.their favour by his verses. The news of the defeat being carried to Athens, the citizens would not .believe it at first, and were • so far from giving credit to the report, that they sentenced... | |
 | George Horne, William Jones - Theology - 1818 - 570 pages
...Euripides, which they repeated to their captors, who were extremely fond of them. On their return, they went and saluted that poet as their deliverer,...admirable effects wrought in their favour by his verses. Scarce any circumstance could be more pleasing and flattering than this testimony. i EXERCISE. The... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - Greece - 1818 - 346 pages
...saluted that poet as their deliverer; and informed him of the admirable effects wrought in their favor by his verses. The news of the defeat being carried to Athens, the citizens would not believe it at first ; and were so far from giving credit to the report, that they sentenced... | |
 | Charles Rollin - History, Ancient - 1820 - 386 pages
...patience, and a certain air of probity and modesty, were of great advantage to them ; for, they were either soon restored to their liberty, or met with the kindest...of the defeat being carried to Athens, the citizens would not believe it at first ; and were so far from giving credit to it, that they sentenced that... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1823 - 422 pages
...the night by the colds of autumn ; poisoned by the stench of their own excrement, by the carcasses of those who died of their wounds and of sickness,...admirable effects wrought in their favour by his verses. s 2 The news of the defeat being carried to Athens, the citizens at first would not believe it, and... | |
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Several of them even owed the good usage they met with to Euripides, the finest scenes of whose tragedies they repeated to the Sicilians, who were extremely fond of them ; so that when they returned to their own country, they went and saluted that poet... 
