Illustrations of the tragedies of Æschylus and Sophocles from the Greek, Latin, and English poets, with an intr. essay, by J.F. BoyesJohn Frederick Boyes 1842 |
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... nature , themselves governed by the same laws of thought , Shave , without connivance , agreed to put nearly the same words into the mouths of similar characters , where their circumstances eorresponded ; [ or that they have both ...
... nature , themselves governed by the same laws of thought , Shave , without connivance , agreed to put nearly the same words into the mouths of similar characters , where their circumstances eorresponded ; [ or that they have both ...
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... nature : " if by this Farmer meant us to infer , which is necessary to his argu- * The French translations of the Iphigenia and Hecuba wase done I suffert , not from the original Greek but the Latin of Iravmus . own errors , and his ...
... nature : " if by this Farmer meant us to infer , which is necessary to his argu- * The French translations of the Iphigenia and Hecuba wase done I suffert , not from the original Greek but the Latin of Iravmus . own errors , and his ...
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... Nature only help'd him , for look through This whole book , thou shalt find he doth not borrow One phrase from Greekes , nor Latines imitate . Which is false . Had any writer of authority , from carelessness , or a one- sided view ...
... Nature only help'd him , for look through This whole book , thou shalt find he doth not borrow One phrase from Greekes , nor Latines imitate . Which is false . Had any writer of authority , from carelessness , or a one- sided view ...
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... nature , always in conformity with the character of the person who gives it utterance , and proceeding oftener from the heart than the head ; Latin dramatists , often little more than a species of acknowledgment of the subservience of ...
... nature , always in conformity with the character of the person who gives it utterance , and proceeding oftener from the heart than the head ; Latin dramatists , often little more than a species of acknowledgment of the subservience of ...
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... nature , some- times even more than to Eschylus himself . many To conclude , there is a greater disproportionate- ness in the mind of Shelley , than in those of his Greek precursors ; and in almost all his writings , except , perhaps ...
... nature , some- times even more than to Eschylus himself . many To conclude , there is a greater disproportionate- ness in the mind of Shelley , than in those of his Greek precursors ; and in almost all his writings , except , perhaps ...
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 16 - How doth the city sit solitary, that was full of people ! How is she become as a widow ! She that was great among the nations, and princess among the provinces, How is she become tributary...
Seite 37 - What though the field be lost? All is not lost; the unconquerable will, And study of revenge, immortal hate, And courage never to submit or yield: And what is else not to be overcome?
Seite 15 - If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces. It is a good divine that follows his own instructions: I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching.
Seite 25 - Last noon beheld them full of lusty life, Last eve in Beauty's circle proudly gay, The midnight brought the signal-sound of strife, The morn the marshalling in arms, — the day Battle's magnificently stern array ! The thunder-clouds close o'er it, which, when rent, The earth is cover'd thick with other clay, Which her own clay shall cover, heap'd and pent, Rider and horse, — friend, foe, — in one red burial blent...
Seite 12 - Therefore shall evil come upon thee; thou shall not know from whence it riseth: and mischief shall fall upon thee; thou shalt not be able to put it off: and desolation shall come upon thee suddenly, which thou shalt not know.
Seite 34 - Thy husband is thy lord, thy life, thy keeper, Thy head, thy sovereign; one that cares for thee, And for thy maintenance commits his body To painful labour both by sea and land...
Seite xxvi - He is our cousin, cousin ; but 'tis doubt, When time shall call him home from banishment, Whether our kinsman come to see his friends. Ourself, and Bushy, Bagot here, and Green, Observ'd his courtship to the common people : — • How he did seem to dive into their hearts, With humble and familiar courtesy ; What reverence he did throw away on slaves ; Wooing poor craftsmen with the craft of smiles, And patient under bearing- of his fortune, As 'twere, to banish their affects with him.
Seite 3 - Of dragon watch with unenchanted eye, To save her blossoms, and defend her fruit, From the rash hand of bold Incontinence.
Seite 12 - Thou hast seen it; for thou beholdest mischief and spite, to requite it with thy hand: the poor committeth himself unto thee; thou art the helper of the fatherless.
Seite 17 - Know, all the good that individuals find, Or God and nature meant to mere mankind, Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of sense, Lie in three words — health, peace, and competence.