American Quarterly Review, Volume 21Carey, Lea & Carey, 1837 |
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Page 196
... Euripides was born at Salamis on the day of the battle with the fleet of Xerxes . These poets lived amidst the most stirring scenes . Their minds were constantly informed , by what was passing around them , how men act in great ...
... Euripides was born at Salamis on the day of the battle with the fleet of Xerxes . These poets lived amidst the most stirring scenes . Their minds were constantly informed , by what was passing around them , how men act in great ...
Page 202
... Euripides , but the principal personage in each drama appears under similar circumstances of local position , with a similar antecedent history , and so far as the discovery of parentage is concerned , a similar destiny . Still that a ...
... Euripides , but the principal personage in each drama appears under similar circumstances of local position , with a similar antecedent history , and so far as the discovery of parentage is concerned , a similar destiny . Still that a ...
Page 258
... Euripides was the idol of his time . By promoting a more effectual union than had yet subsisted between moral philosophy and tragic representa- tion , he became an object of praise and admiration with his con- temporaries . His verses ...
... Euripides was the idol of his time . By promoting a more effectual union than had yet subsisted between moral philosophy and tragic representa- tion , he became an object of praise and admiration with his con- temporaries . His verses ...
Page 273
... Euripides , as any , in this department , which the annals of English literature present . True , there is here no misty mythology mingling itself with the plot , and no all- pervading , all - powerful destiny , working out its triumph ...
... Euripides , as any , in this department , which the annals of English literature present . True , there is here no misty mythology mingling itself with the plot , and no all- pervading , all - powerful destiny , working out its triumph ...
Page 276
... Euripides are familiar as household words ; and their history is very generally and pleasantly remembered . Ancient poetry is embalmed with them ; and themselves were embalmed in the pride and gratitude of their countrymen . These great ...
... Euripides are familiar as household words ; and their history is very generally and pleasantly remembered . Ancient poetry is embalmed with them ; and themselves were embalmed in the pride and gratitude of their countrymen . These great ...
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