Sophocles: with English notes, Volume 3Whittaker, 1880 |
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Page v
... Greek Plays induced them to request me to undertake a work , the difficulty of which , even to one who has been familiar with the author for quite half a century , might well deter the most ardent and the most industrious of younger ...
... Greek Plays induced them to request me to undertake a work , the difficulty of which , even to one who has been familiar with the author for quite half a century , might well deter the most ardent and the most industrious of younger ...
Page vii
... Greek Literature , if they are taught to think that our present texts are little better than fields for the exercise of guessing ? Or how comes it that , if so many passages are really unsound , the correction of them by conjecture is ...
... Greek Literature , if they are taught to think that our present texts are little better than fields for the exercise of guessing ? Or how comes it that , if so many passages are really unsound , the correction of them by conjecture is ...
Page viii
... Greek genius in us fully to unravel it . It seems to me , that critics who do not take into account any or all of the foregoing probabilities mistake a mere knack of ingenious guessing , or of trying how many changes can be made in ...
... Greek genius in us fully to unravel it . It seems to me , that critics who do not take into account any or all of the foregoing probabilities mistake a mere knack of ingenious guessing , or of trying how many changes can be made in ...
Page ix
... Greek tragedy which is apt , as it is able , to express in recondite terms sentiments and propositions which emendators think to improve by simplifying them . Of course , there is a limit to be drawn somewhere , and it must be admitted ...
... Greek tragedy which is apt , as it is able , to express in recondite terms sentiments and propositions which emendators think to improve by simplifying them . Of course , there is a limit to be drawn somewhere , and it must be admitted ...
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... Greek drama was a spectacle ; the action of the speaker was seen , and his manner , looks , gesture , and emphasis were so many practical comments on his meaning . With us , a Greek play is simply a literary work , which we interpret by ...
... Greek drama was a spectacle ; the action of the speaker was seen , and his manner , looks , gesture , and emphasis were so many practical comments on his meaning . With us , a Greek play is simply a literary work , which we interpret by ...
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