The National Quarterly Review, Volume 4Edward Isidore Sears, David Allyn Gorton, Charles H. Woodman Pudney & Russell, 1862 |
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Pagina 4
... less sparing of the Homeric fountain , as the titles alone of his principal tragedies sufficiently show , namely , Ajax , Electra , and Philoctetes , the dramatis persona in each of which are borrowed from Homer . We might thus occupy ...
... less sparing of the Homeric fountain , as the titles alone of his principal tragedies sufficiently show , namely , Ajax , Electra , and Philoctetes , the dramatis persona in each of which are borrowed from Homer . We might thus occupy ...
Pagina 9
... less Greek " than in Troilus and Cressida , since the whole piece is little better , so far as poetical justice is con- cerned , than a caricature of such of the men and women of Homer as form the dramatis persona . Nothing could be ...
... less Greek " than in Troilus and Cressida , since the whole piece is little better , so far as poetical justice is con- cerned , than a caricature of such of the men and women of Homer as form the dramatis persona . Nothing could be ...
Pagina 23
... less interesting or startling , we come to that in which his mother Thetis descends from Olympus to tell him that it is the will of heaven he should now relent . " Him there she found Groaning disconsolate , while others ran To and fro ...
... less interesting or startling , we come to that in which his mother Thetis descends from Olympus to tell him that it is the will of heaven he should now relent . " Him there she found Groaning disconsolate , while others ran To and fro ...
Pagina 24
... less described . We can only make room for a brief extract from Cowper's version : " Think , O Achilles , semblance of the gods , On thine own father , full of days like me , And trembling on the gloomy verge of life . Some neighbor ...
... less described . We can only make room for a brief extract from Cowper's version : " Think , O Achilles , semblance of the gods , On thine own father , full of days like me , And trembling on the gloomy verge of life . Some neighbor ...
Pagina 29
... less true . All his biographers state that at the bat- tle of Arabella he made use of the maxim introduced in the sixth book of the Iliad , when Nestor sees Menelaus ready to spare an enemy for the sake of a ransom . In the heat of ...
... less true . All his biographers state that at the bat- tle of Arabella he made use of the maxim introduced in the sixth book of the Iliad , when Nestor sees Menelaus ready to spare an enemy for the sake of a ransom . In the heat of ...
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