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Page viii
... given syllables , for that true and high art , that almost intuitive faculty , —so difficult to attain and given to so few , -which knows by an almost infallible tact what might have been said , could have been said , and ought to have ...
... given syllables , for that true and high art , that almost intuitive faculty , —so difficult to attain and given to so few , -which knows by an almost infallible tact what might have been said , could have been said , and ought to have ...
Page xv
... to attribute to Sophocles " a degree of subtlety passing into eccentricity would be of course ridiculous . " I would rather say , " may perhaps be unjust . " catalogue of them given in Prof. Campbell's Preface . Perhaps PREFACE . XV.
... to attribute to Sophocles " a degree of subtlety passing into eccentricity would be of course ridiculous . " I would rather say , " may perhaps be unjust . " catalogue of them given in Prof. Campbell's Preface . Perhaps PREFACE . XV.
Page xvi
... given , if elegance of idiom is , as it ever should be , in justice to a great poet , an object to be held in regard . Our use of a very large number of Latin words is in itself a drawback in the rendering of Attic Greek . I have taken ...
... given , if elegance of idiom is , as it ever should be , in justice to a great poet , an object to be held in regard . Our use of a very large number of Latin words is in itself a drawback in the rendering of Attic Greek . I have taken ...
Page xvii
... given at the end of the volume . " Some such review of the language of Sophocles " ( the Author says in p . 106 ) " as that which has been imperfectly at- tempted in this Essay , appears to be necessary in order to interpret him with an ...
... given at the end of the volume . " Some such review of the language of Sophocles " ( the Author says in p . 106 ) " as that which has been imperfectly at- tempted in this Essay , appears to be necessary in order to interpret him with an ...
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... given of it by Dion Chrysostom.1 Though the present play was composed by its author at the advanced age of 85 , ' B.C. 409 , we are told in the Greek Argument that it gained the first prize . As , in the case of the Electra , and very ...
... given of it by Dion Chrysostom.1 Though the present play was composed by its author at the advanced age of 85 , ' B.C. 409 , we are told in the Greek Argument that it gained the first prize . As , in the case of the Electra , and very ...
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