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...characters must be parallel. Such was the tone and elevation of the Greek tragedy, which treated " Of fate, and chance, and change in human life, : High actions and high passions best describing." There must be the K«X«I wpafsij or high actions to invest a character with that sort of atmosphere...

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...which they were surrounded. The lofty and grave strains of their eloquent sages, and their poets — Teachers best Of moral prudence, with delight received...sententious precepts, while they treat Of fate, and chance, aud change, in human life, High actions and high passions best describing — fell sweetly on the ear,...

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...father of all kinds Blind Melesigenes thence Homer call'd, Whose, poem Phoebus challeng'd for his own. Thence what the lofty grave tragedians taught In Chorus...Iambic, teachers best Of moral prudence with delight receiv'd 260 of poetry. Such wise men as Dionysius the Halicarnassean, and Plutarch, have attempted...

...Tho' Rare of Later Age " Ennobied has the Buskin'd Stage — Remembered also, That Tragedy Treats, " Of Fate, and Chance, and change In Human Life, " High Actions and High Passions best describing. An Attempt so Arduous must I am Sure, Secure Indulgence and Consideration. Some Passages Breathe an...

...with such delight received. Dunster. 189 In brief sententious precepts, while they treat Of fate, of chance, and change in human life ; High actions, and high passions best describing : Thence to the famous orators repair, Those ancient, whose resistless eloquence Wielded at will that...

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