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His Euripides is, by Mr. Cradock's kindness, now in my hands : the margin is
sometimes noted ; but I have found nothing remarkable. Of the English poets he
set most value upon fipp.nser. Shakspeare, and Cowley. Spenser was apparently
his ...
His Euripides is, by Mr. Cradock's kindness, now in my hands : the margin is
sometimes noted ; but I have found nothing remarkable. Of the English poets he
set most value upon fipp.nser. Shakspeare, and Cowley. Spenser was apparently
his ...
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... a weaver in Spital-fields, and lived seventy-six years, to August 1727. This is
the daughter of whom publick mention has been made. She could repeat the first
lines of Homer, the Metamorphoses, and some of Euripides, by having often read
...
... a weaver in Spital-fields, and lived seventy-six years, to August 1727. This is
the daughter of whom publick mention has been made. She could repeat the first
lines of Homer, the Metamorphoses, and some of Euripides, by having often read
...
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In the Prometheus of JEschylus, we see Violence and Strength, and in the
Alcestis of Euripides, we see Death, brought upon the stage, all as active persons
of the drama ; but no precedents can justify absurdity. Milton's allegory of Sin and
...
In the Prometheus of JEschylus, we see Violence and Strength, and in the
Alcestis of Euripides, we see Death, brought upon the stage, all as active persons
of the drama ; but no precedents can justify absurdity. Milton's allegory of Sin and
...
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in all those, or the greatest part of them, we "are inferior to Sophocles and
Euripides; and this "he has offered at, in some measure; but, I think, a little
partially to the ancients. " For thefable itself, 'tis in the English more "adorned with
episodes, ...
in all those, or the greatest part of them, we "are inferior to Sophocles and
Euripides; and this "he has offered at, in some measure; but, I think, a little
partially to the ancients. " For thefable itself, 'tis in the English more "adorned with
episodes, ...
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'Tis not enough that Aristotle had said so ; for Aristotle drew his models of tragedy
from Sophocles and Euripides; and if he had seen ours, might have changed his
mind. And chiefly we have to say (what I hinted on pity and terrour, in the last ...
'Tis not enough that Aristotle had said so ; for Aristotle drew his models of tragedy
from Sophocles and Euripides; and if he had seen ours, might have changed his
mind. And chiefly we have to say (what I hinted on pity and terrour, in the last ...
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