Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Volumen1D. Appleton, 1860 - 568 páginas |
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... Greek Rhapsodists , according to Plato , could not recite Homer without almost falling into convulsions . * The Mohawk hardly feels the scalping - knife while he shouts his death - song . The power which the ancient bards of Wales and ...
... Greek Rhapsodists , according to Plato , could not recite Homer without almost falling into convulsions . * The Mohawk hardly feels the scalping - knife while he shouts his death - song . The power which the ancient bards of Wales and ...
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... Greek drama , on the model of which the Samson was written , sprung from the ode . The dialogue was ingrafted ... Greeks had far more intercourse with the East than in the days of Homer ; and they had not yet acquired that immense ...
... Greek drama , on the model of which the Samson was written , sprung from the ode . The dialogue was ingrafted ... Greeks had far more intercourse with the East than in the days of Homer ; and they had not yet acquired that immense ...
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... Greek tra- gedy . It is , certainly , the noblest performance of the kind which exists in any language . It is as far superior to the Faithful Shepherdess , as the Faithful Shepherdess is to the Aminta , or the Aminta to the Pastor Fido ...
... Greek tra- gedy . It is , certainly , the noblest performance of the kind which exists in any language . It is as far superior to the Faithful Shepherdess , as the Faithful Shepherdess is to the Aminta , or the Aminta to the Pastor Fido ...
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... Greek Anthology ; or perhaps still more of the Col- lects of the English Liturgy - the noble poem on the mas- sacres of Piedmont is strictly a collect in verse . The Sonnets are more or less striking , according as the occasions which ...
... Greek Anthology ; or perhaps still more of the Col- lects of the English Liturgy - the noble poem on the mas- sacres of Piedmont is strictly a collect in verse . The Sonnets are more or less striking , according as the occasions which ...
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... Greeks acted still more strongly on the modern Italians . Instead of a power like Sparta , in its nature warlike , they had among them an ecclesiastical state , in its nature pacific . Where there are numerous slaves , every freeman is ...
... Greeks acted still more strongly on the modern Italians . Instead of a power like Sparta , in its nature warlike , they had among them an ecclesiastical state , in its nature pacific . Where there are numerous slaves , every freeman is ...
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