The Œdipus Coloneus of Sophocles, with Notes, Intended Principally to Explain and Defend the Text of the Manuscripts as Opposed to Conjectural Emendation. By ... C. E. PalmerDeighton, Bell & Company, 1860 - 225 pages |
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... thought that they have had the best reasons for their emendations , and that these emendations would not have been transferred un- questioned from one new edition to another , if they had not been proved to be true and the reading of ...
... thought that they have had the best reasons for their emendations , and that these emendations would not have been transferred un- questioned from one new edition to another , if they had not been proved to be true and the reading of ...
Page vii
... thought to be inexplicable nonsense . Many also dislike the trouble of think- ing for themselves , and regard with disfavour any one who raises doubts in their minds , on points about which they were previously quite satisfied ...
... thought to be inexplicable nonsense . Many also dislike the trouble of think- ing for themselves , and regard with disfavour any one who raises doubts in their minds , on points about which they were previously quite satisfied ...
Page viii
... thought . For this and other reasons it has appeared to me , that the stringent laws laid down by metrical critics , and especially by that great master of the art Hermann , cannot in all cases be main- tained , unless we suppose a much ...
... thought . For this and other reasons it has appeared to me , that the stringent laws laid down by metrical critics , and especially by that great master of the art Hermann , cannot in all cases be main- tained , unless we suppose a much ...
Page ix
... thoughts are directed too intently on one thing , others that stand around and in close connection with it become ... thought , to make even the slightest alteration , in sentences which are restricted by the laws of metre and woven ...
... thoughts are directed too intently on one thing , others that stand around and in close connection with it become ... thought , to make even the slightest alteration , in sentences which are restricted by the laws of metre and woven ...
Page x
... thought to be a faulty passage , faulty still ; than to exercise a misplaced ingenuity by putting on it a false patch . It is possible that the poet himself might have polished and improved still further his finished works , but it is ...
... thought to be a faulty passage , faulty still ; than to exercise a misplaced ingenuity by putting on it a false patch . It is possible that the poet himself might have polished and improved still further his finished works , but it is ...
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