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... Medea ferox invictaque , flebilis Ino , Perfidus Ixion , Io vaga , triftis Oreftes . Si quid inexpertum fcenae committis , et audes 125 Perfonam formare novam ; fervetur ad imum Qualis ab incepto procefferit , et fibi conftet ...
... Medea ferox invictaque , flebilis Ino , Perfidus Ixion , Io vaga , triftis Oreftes . Si quid inexpertum fcenae committis , et audes 125 Perfonam formare novam ; fervetur ad imum Qualis ab incepto procefferit , et fibi conftet ...
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... Medea trucidet ; 185 Aut humana palam coquat exta nefarius Atreus ; Aut in Avem Procne vertatur , Cadmus in anguem . Quodcunque oftendis mihi fic , incredulus odi . Neve minor , neu fit quinto productior actu Fabula , quae pofci volt ...
... Medea trucidet ; 185 Aut humana palam coquat exta nefarius Atreus ; Aut in Avem Procne vertatur , Cadmus in anguem . Quodcunque oftendis mihi fic , incredulus odi . Neve minor , neu fit quinto productior actu Fabula , quae pofci volt ...
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... MEDEA FEROX INVICTAQUE . ] Horace took this inftance from Euripides , where the unconquered fierceness of this character is pre- ferved in that due mediocrity , which nature and just juft writing demand . The poet , in giving her 102 ...
... MEDEA FEROX INVICTAQUE . ] Horace took this inftance from Euripides , where the unconquered fierceness of this character is pre- ferved in that due mediocrity , which nature and just juft writing demand . The poet , in giving her 102 ...
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... Medea , for inftance , and Oreftes ; or , if any change be neceffary , let it be fuch as may confift with , and be eafily reconciled to , the manners formerly attributed ; as is feen in the cafe of Electra and Iphigenia . We should read ...
... Medea , for inftance , and Oreftes ; or , if any change be neceffary , let it be fuch as may confift with , and be eafily reconciled to , the manners formerly attributed ; as is feen in the cafe of Electra and Iphigenia . We should read ...
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... Medea butchering her children in the face of the people ; and , as if this too faintly painted the fury of her ... Medea's character . " For , wanting true tafte to difcern the exact boundaries which nature had prescribed to the human ...
... Medea butchering her children in the face of the people ; and , as if this too faintly painted the fury of her ... Medea's character . " For , wanting true tafte to difcern the exact boundaries which nature had prescribed to the human ...
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