 ... poet's words : but if admitted , it only proves, what could hardly be questioned even without this evidence, [?] that the poet was not so ignorant of the art as never to have heard of its existence. * * * And on the other hand, if the tablet contained...  A History of Greece - Page 226by Connop Thirlwall - 1835Full view - About this book
 | Connop Thirlwall - Greece - 1845 - 1178 pages
...that the tbaractrn ware ruaTtnticn.nl i-ipbera. but luch a atippuaiuua 11 kanlly worth mention) tiff. want of alphabetical writing was so felt, and had...which had •acquired a new form in his own time. When, however, it is considered that throughout the Homeric poems, though they appear to embrace the... | |
 | 1848 - 1390 pages
...* And on the other hand, if the tablet contained only a picture or a series of imitative pictures, it would be evident that where the want of alphabetical...state of the art which had acquired a new form in his time."§ * Vol ii. p. 149. t Thirlwall, p. 217. •j Grote, Vol. II., p. 156. Milford accurately quotes... | |
 | 1848 - 722 pages
...* And on the other hand, if the tablet contained only a picture or a scries of imitative pictures, it would be evident that where the want of alphabetical...was only describing a ruder state of the art which liad acquired a new form in his time."g * Vol. ii. p. 149. t Thirlwall, p. 247. IGrotc, Vol. II., p.... | |
 | Charles Astor Bristed - 1858 - 736 pages
...* And on the other hand, if the tablet contained only a picture or a series of imitative pictures, it would be evident that where the want of alphabetical...state of the art which had acquired a new form in his time." -jf And his last suggestion on this point is certainly ingenious and plausible: — * Vol. ii.... | |
 | Charles Astor Bristed - 1858 - 744 pages
...* And on the other hand, if the tablet contained only a picture or a series of imitative pictures, it would be evident that where the want of alphabetical...state of the art which had acquired a new form in his time." •}••{• And his last suggestion on this point is certainly ingenious and plausible: *... | |
 | Charles Astor Bristed - 1858 - 746 pages
...or a series of imitative pictures, it would be evident that where the want of alphabetical waiting was so felt, and had begun to be so supplied by drawing,...state of the art which had acquired a new form in his time." •{••{• And his last suggestion on this point is certainly ingenious and plausible :... | |
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