Bad flute-players twist and twirl, if they have to represent 'the quoit-throw,' or hustle the
coryphaeus when they perform the 'Scylla.' Tragedy, it is said, has this same defect.
1843, comments on this passage as follows: "That great patron and
Coryphaeus of this tribe, Nicolo Machiavel, laid down this for a master rule in his political scheme: 'That the show of religion was helpful to the politician, but the reality of it hurtful and pernicious.'"
But d'you suppose they listen to me when I tell 'em so, when I point out the consequences, the consequences to the public purse, when I recommend 'em to read
Coryphaeus? No, Mrs.
coryphaeus are veiled, as is always the case when anyone conceals, under
Just after, the
coryphaeus criticize Polymestor's words, since it is not appropriate to generalize: "Do not presume Polymestor, whatever your provocation, to include all women in this sweeping curse without distinction" [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII], Hecuba, vv.
Quite different from Kassil"s situation as
coryphaeus for the regime was that of the quasi-fairy-tale writer Pavel Bazhov (1879-1950).
First of all, forget that "maelstrom." This is not some sort of cultural panorama of fin de siecle America, with William James as Corybant or
coryphaeus of a band of wild-eyed "modernists." (James died in 1910, the same year as Mark Twain, long before voices like Ezra Pound or Gertrude Stein or Hart Crane began to be heard.) Richardson, who has done solid biographies of Emerson and Thoreau, offers us a splendid full-length portrait of a thinker who in many ways was not a modernist (his lifelong attachment to religion, his conservative personal values, his indebtedness to John Stuart Mill and the utilitarian tradition), but whose lucidity, compassion, fairness, wit, and all-American gusto make him, nearly a century after his death, one our country's great father-figures.
In this next scene the
coryphaeus further undermines Odysseus's statu s as a war hero by deriding the war prize.
The visual databases were created by the researchers using Designer's Workbench, a three-dimensional modeling tool developed by
Coryphaeus (and now owned by Centric Software).