Social Life in Greece from Homer to MenanderMacmillan, 1874 - 495 strani |
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Stran 35
... play a more lucrative game by confining himself to sulkiness and bad language , is ready even to kill him . The poet , too , clearly sympathises with Achilles . He paints Agamemnon as a weak and inferior man , succeeding by fortune to a ...
... play a more lucrative game by confining himself to sulkiness and bad language , is ready even to kill him . The poet , too , clearly sympathises with Achilles . He paints Agamemnon as a weak and inferior man , succeeding by fortune to a ...
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... plays a lead- ing part through the poem , is clearly one of the main- stays of the house , and so self - devoted in her conduct that we feel hurt with Ulysses as we do nowhere else in the whole poem , when he threatens her , should she ...
... plays a lead- ing part through the poem , is clearly one of the main- stays of the house , and so self - devoted in her conduct that we feel hurt with Ulysses as we do nowhere else in the whole poem , when he threatens her , should she ...
Stran 140
... play ) , of an anxious suppliant ( Orestes and Danaus ) . It is in respect of the development of personal character that the great trilogy of Eschylus stands far in advance of his earlier plays ; and the combination of this feature with ...
... play ) , of an anxious suppliant ( Orestes and Danaus ) . It is in respect of the development of personal character that the great trilogy of Eschylus stands far in advance of his earlier plays ; and the combination of this feature with ...
Stran 141
... may have been partly due to the position of the rhapsodists , who sang for queens , and who wished to magnify the good influence of their own order .. in the second play of the trilogy , where Electra v . ] THE GREEKS OF THE ATTIC AGE .
... may have been partly due to the position of the rhapsodists , who sang for queens , and who wished to magnify the good influence of their own order .. in the second play of the trilogy , where Electra v . ] THE GREEKS OF THE ATTIC AGE .
Stran 142
... play in human history . The picture he draws , in the mouth of Cly- temnestra , of the faithful wife waiting for her hus- band's return , and that of the husband's anguish at the loss of the wife he loved , cannot be passed over as ...
... play in human history . The picture he draws , in the mouth of Cly- temnestra , of the faithful wife waiting for her hus- band's return , and that of the husband's anguish at the loss of the wife he loved , cannot be passed over as ...
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Stran 26 - To the young, for whom it is especially intended, as a most interesting collection of thrilling tales well told; and to their elders, as a useful handbook of reference, and a pleasant one to take up •when their •wish is to while away a weary half-hour. We have seen no prettier gift-book for a long time."— ATHENAEUM.
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Stran 17 - She handles her little marvel with that rare poetic discrimination which neither exhausts it of its simple wonders by pushing symbolism too far, nor keeps those wonders in the merely fabulous and capricious stage. In fact she has produced a true children's poem, which is far more delightful to the mature than to children, though it would be delightful to all.
Stran 15 - So choice, so perfect, and so refined, so tender in feeling, and so scholarly in expression, that we look with special interest to everything that he gives us.
Stran 13 - One quality in the piece, sufficient of itself to claim a moment's attention, is that it is unique— original, indeed, is not too strong a word — in the manner of its conception and execution.