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... chief end and duty of art is to exhibit high abstract truths in a palpable , passionate , and pleasing form , we should expect it to be deve- loped in the highest perfection wherever , from the operation of political circumstances ...
... chief end and duty of art is to exhibit high abstract truths in a palpable , passionate , and pleasing form , we should expect it to be deve- loped in the highest perfection wherever , from the operation of political circumstances ...
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... chief mistake is made , which perplexes a young scholar in approaching the old Greek drama , and which throws it into mystery . We are not speaking now of Euripides , scarcely per- haps even of Sophocles , much less of the later ...
... chief mistake is made , which perplexes a young scholar in approaching the old Greek drama , and which throws it into mystery . We are not speaking now of Euripides , scarcely per- haps even of Sophocles , much less of the later ...
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... chief exciting object of pity . But if the grand political truth is the object of the poet , all this becomes intelligible ; and any further obtrusion of the individual would have interfered with his object ; as com- passion and ...
... chief exciting object of pity . But if the grand political truth is the object of the poet , all this becomes intelligible ; and any further obtrusion of the individual would have interfered with his object ; as com- passion and ...
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... chief virtue , and chief happiness ; and the boy who has been rightly trained to it , in translating a dead language , may be easily led on to apply it to other higher duties and objects . To live under constraint will be no new idea ...
... chief virtue , and chief happiness ; and the boy who has been rightly trained to it , in translating a dead language , may be easily led on to apply it to other higher duties and objects . To live under constraint will be no new idea ...
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... chief parts of our literary education , and is of inestimable value as a discipline , The union in it of the strictest accuracy with a rhythmical and poetical cha- racter has hitherto been too generally neglected ; and the neglect has ...
... chief parts of our literary education , and is of inestimable value as a discipline , The union in it of the strictest accuracy with a rhythmical and poetical cha- racter has hitherto been too generally neglected ; and the neglect has ...
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2d Edition 4th Edition A. J. VALPY adapted Ægisth Agam Agamemnon ancient Anglicæ Apollo Argive Aristophanes Arithmetic Atreus blood bound Cass CHARLES ANTHON Chor Chorus cloth Clyt Clytemnestra copious corrected crime curse deed didst dost doth E. H. BARKER e'en Edited by A. J. Editio English Notes English-Latin enlarged Eschylus Eton Eton Latin Euripides evil F. E. J. VALPY fate fear Geography gods Grammar School Greek Grammar Greek Language halls hand hath heart heaven History JAMES PYCROFT Jove Language late Latin Exercises Latin Grammar Latin Language Latin-English Dictionary Lessons Lexicon light Menelaus mind moral murder Norwich School o'er Pleisthenes poet poetry post 8vo prophetic Questions revised S. T. BLOOMFIELD seems Semich Shrewsbury School sooth Sophocles soul spouse TESTAMENTUM DOMINI Text thee thou Thucydides Thyestes tion translation Trinity College Troy truth unto usum Valpy's vols words wrath
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