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Page 111
... Sophocles had handled , and abstained from imi- tating them from his great veneration of the original . And that this was the reason why he rather imitated Euripides than Sophocles ; as in the Phædra , Andromache , Iphigenia . + Poetic ...
... Sophocles had handled , and abstained from imi- tating them from his great veneration of the original . And that this was the reason why he rather imitated Euripides than Sophocles ; as in the Phædra , Andromache , Iphigenia . + Poetic ...
Page 172
... Sophocles ; at leaft if we may judge from his more frequent allufions to the works of the former than of the latter . The difpute about the burying of Ajax is almoft the only passage of Sophocles alluded to in his works . Sat. iii . b ...
... Sophocles ; at leaft if we may judge from his more frequent allufions to the works of the former than of the latter . The difpute about the burying of Ajax is almoft the only passage of Sophocles alluded to in his works . Sat. iii . b ...
Page 379
... Sophocles , Eschylus , and Euripides , had not been tranflated : nor had Mr. Mafon published his Caractacus , nor Mr. Gray his Runic Odes , when page the 375th was written . + Paradife Regained , b . IV . ver . 264 . www . • I own , I ...
... Sophocles , Eschylus , and Euripides , had not been tranflated : nor had Mr. Mafon published his Caractacus , nor Mr. Gray his Runic Odes , when page the 375th was written . + Paradife Regained , b . IV . ver . 264 . www . • I own , I ...
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