 | 1812 - 540 pages
...their wealth, and some the larger part, from his ample and ready stores ; From whose mouth issued forth Mellifluous streams, that watered all the schools...attention to a plain circumstance so well agreeing with ordmary • observation, than by resorting to any fanciful theory of youth • and age, in the growth... | |
 | 1824 - 488 pages
...to throw light on the character and doctrines of the wonderful man, " From whose mouth issued forth Mellifluous streams that watered all the schools Of Academics, old and new, with those Surnamed Peripatetics, and the sect Epicurean, and the Stoic severe." He does not seem to... | |
 | 1840 - 566 pages
...unanimously painted as the mother of anarchy and misrule, — and from her mouth have issued forth Mellifluous streams, that watered all the schools Of Academics, old and new. * Herod. V. 78. $ii\oT Si ow Kar' ev povvov dXXa: Tavra^if, Jf iVqyopi'iI wf fi-' oovlaTot. The expression... | |
 | Eliza Robbins - 1842 - 352 pages
...his tenement, Whom well inspired the oracle pronounced Wisest of men ; from whose mouth issued forth Mellifluous streams that watered all the schools Of academics, old and new, with those »Sirnamed Peripatetics, and the sect Epicurean, and the Stoic severe. The poets, orators,... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1843 - 424 pages
...to throw light on the character and doctrines of the wonderful man, " Prom whose mouth issued forth Mellifluous streams that watered all the schools Of Academics, old and new, with those Surnamed Peripatetics, and the sect Epicurean, and the Stoic severe." He does not seem to... | |
 | Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell - 1844 - 562 pages
...Socrates, has reserved his censures for his successors, who mingled their own baneful speculations with the "Mellifluous streams that watered all the schools Of Academics old and new," perverting his dialectics into wordy disputation, and substituting for his modest confession of ignorance... | |
 | English poetry - 1844 - 92 pages
...his tenement, Whom well inspired the oracle pronounced Wisest of men; from whose mouth issued forth Mellifluous streams, that watered all the schools Of Academics old and new, with those Surnamed Peripatetics, and the sect Epicurean, and the Stoic severe. SONNETS OF MILTON.... | |
 | Robert Isaac Wilberforce - 1845 - 272 pages
...his tenement, Whom well inspired the oracle pronounced Wisest of men ; from whose mouth issued forth Mellifluous streams, that watered all the schools Of Academics old and new, with those Surnamed Peripatetic, and the sect Epicurean, and the Stoic severe." The Academics were... | |
 | Hugh Swinton Legaré - 1846 - 642 pages
...unanimously painted as the mother of anarchy and misrule, — and from her month have issued forth Mellifluous streams, that watered all the schools Of Academics, old and new. IIer superiority in this respect, which has been celebrated by later times, in every form of eulogy,... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1849 - 446 pages
...says, came down from heaven to the low-roofed house of Socrates, ,.,.." from whose mouth issued forth Mellifluous streams that watered all the schools Of Academics old and new; with those Surnamed Peripatetics, and the sect Epicurean, and the Stoic severe." The morality of Socrates... | |
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Artaxerxes' throne; To sage Philosophy next lend thine ear, From heaven descended to the low-roofed house Of Socrates, see there his tenement, Whom well inspired the oracle pronounced Wisest of men; from whose mouth issued forth Mellifluous streams that... 
