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Page 120
... Sophocles , which is pronounced in this lecture , is truly beautiful , and more strictly just than that of Eschylus . Among modern works of art , the Iphigenia in Tauris of Goethe approaches nearest to a poem of Sophocles . It is ...
... Sophocles , which is pronounced in this lecture , is truly beautiful , and more strictly just than that of Eschylus . Among modern works of art , the Iphigenia in Tauris of Goethe approaches nearest to a poem of Sophocles . It is ...
Page 121
... Sophocles the Trojan Dames . The Hecuba , a tragedy on the same theme , is certainly a work of Euripides ; the heroine , tottering on a crutch and rolling in the dust , has that ignoble raggedness with which Aristophanes reproaches this ...
... Sophocles the Trojan Dames . The Hecuba , a tragedy on the same theme , is certainly a work of Euripides ; the heroine , tottering on a crutch and rolling in the dust , has that ignoble raggedness with which Aristophanes reproaches this ...
Page 122
... Sophocles In the character of Edipus , he has scarcely imprinted traces of that wild in- temperance of feeling , which was destined to tear out his own eyes in the catastrophe . It is not by sudden sparks of pas- sion that Sophocles ...
... Sophocles In the character of Edipus , he has scarcely imprinted traces of that wild in- temperance of feeling , which was destined to tear out his own eyes in the catastrophe . It is not by sudden sparks of pas- sion that Sophocles ...
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