 For all good poets, epic as well as lyric, compose their beautiful poems not by art, but because they are inspired and possessed. And as the Corybantian revellers when they dance are not in their right mind, so the lyric poets are not in their right mind...  The Spirit and Substance of Art - Page 180by Louis William Flaccus - 1926 - 432 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Plato - Philosophy - 1871 - 744 pages
...when they are composing their beautiful strains: but when falling under the power of music and metre they are inspired and possessed ; like Bacchic maidens who draw milk and honey from the rivers, when they are under the influence of Dionysus, but not when they are in their right mind.... | |
 | Plato - 1873 - 698 pages
...poems not as works of art, but becanse they are inspired and possessed. And as the Corybantian revelers when they dance are .„, not in their right mind,...in their right mind when they are composing their beantiful strains: but when falling under the power of music and metre they are inspired and possessed;... | |
 | John Pentland Mahaffy - Greece - 1874 - 446 pages
...beautiful poems not as works of art, but because they are inspired and possessed. And as the Corybantian revellers when they dance are not in their right mind,...strains : but when falling under the power of music and metre they are inspired and possessed ; like Bacchic maidens who draw milk and honey from the rivers,... | |
 | Plato - 1874 - 662 pages
...not as works of art, but'because they are inspired ajid possessed. And as the~Corybantiau revelers when they dance are .„. not in their right mind,...strains: but when falling under the power of music and metre they are inspired and possessed; like Bacchic maidens who draw milk and honey from the rivers,... | |
 | Plato - Philosophy, Ancient - 1874 - 700 pages
...poems not as works of art, but because they are inspired and possessed. And as the Corybantian revelers when they dance are ,„. not in their right mind,...strains : but when falling under the power of music and metre they are inspired and possessed; like Bacchic maidens who draw milk and honey from the rivers,... | |
 | Plato - Philosophers, Ancient - 1875 - 540 pages
...poems not as works of art, but because they are inspired and possessed. And as the 534 Corybantian revellers when they dance are not. in their right...lyric poets are not in their right mind when they 248 ION. are composing their beautiful strains : but when - falling under the power of music-and metre... | |
 | Literature - 1896 - 698 pages
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 | Hamilton Wright Mabie - 1890 - 218 pages
...It is to the well-worn words of Socrates to Ion that I open and read: "As the Corybantian revelers, when they dance, are not in their right mind, so the...like Bacchic maidens who draw milk and honey from the rivers when they are under the influence of Dionysius, but not when they are in their right mind.... | |
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