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Theophrastus (thē'ōfrăs`təs) [Gr.,=divinely speaking], c.372–c.287 B.C., Greek philosopher, Aristotle's successor as head of the Peripatetics Peripatetics (pĕr'əpətĕt`ĭks) [Gr.,=walking about; from Aristotle's manner in teaching], the followers of Aristotle. ..... Click the link for more information. . The school flourished under his leadership. He wrote on many subjects, but his works on plants are perhaps the most important of his technical writings. His Characters, a series of sketches of various ethical types, provides a valuable picture of his time. It anticipates such studies as those by Sir Thomas Overbury, John Earle, and La Bruyère. |
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Raoul, opening his large eyes, like the absent man in Theophrastus, made no answer, but his sadness increased two shades. Every one knows and sings his two stanzas 'To Celia'--'Drink to me only with thine eyes,' which would still be famous without the exquisitely appropriate music that has come down to us from Jonson's own time, and which are no less beautiful because they consist largely of ideas culled from the Greek philosopher Theophrastus. |
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