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Page 117
... Euripides ; -it is true of French tragedy generally , of Young among the English , and of Schiller among the Germans . What is the proper inference ? Merely that the heroic is a praiseworthy branch of art ; and that to excel in it has ...
... Euripides ; -it is true of French tragedy generally , of Young among the English , and of Schiller among the Germans . What is the proper inference ? Merely that the heroic is a praiseworthy branch of art ; and that to excel in it has ...
Page 121
... Euripides ; the heroine , tottering on a crutch and rolling in the dust , has that ignoble raggedness with which Aristophanes reproaches this tragedian ; and critics notice the piece as his composition , praising his description of the ...
... Euripides ; the heroine , tottering on a crutch and rolling in the dust , has that ignoble raggedness with which Aristophanes reproaches this tragedian ; and critics notice the piece as his composition , praising his description of the ...
Page 122
... Euripides neither casts his characters in one mould nor transplants his sentiments from play to play , but is ever ... Euripides is the Shakspeare , of the Greeks ; and it is inconsistent in M. Schlegel to assign to Euripides so ...
... Euripides neither casts his characters in one mould nor transplants his sentiments from play to play , but is ever ... Euripides is the Shakspeare , of the Greeks ; and it is inconsistent in M. Schlegel to assign to Euripides so ...
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