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Page 163
... Sophocles playing upon this inftrument himself in one of his tragedies . And was it not used too in the Roman chorus , as appears from Nero's playing upon it in feveral tragedies ? But the learned critic did not appre- hend this matter ...
... Sophocles playing upon this inftrument himself in one of his tragedies . And was it not used too in the Roman chorus , as appears from Nero's playing upon it in feveral tragedies ? But the learned critic did not appre- hend this matter ...
Page 168
... Sophocles et Thefpis et Æfchylus utile ferrent . This improvement confifted , 1. In a more in- ftructive moral fentiment : 2. In a more fub- lime and animated expreffion ; which of course produced , 3. A greater vehemence in the decla ...
... Sophocles et Thefpis et Æfchylus utile ferrent . This improvement confifted , 1. In a more in- ftructive moral fentiment : 2. In a more fub- lime and animated expreffion ; which of course produced , 3. A greater vehemence in the decla ...
Page 174
... Sophocles and Euripides ? " An ingeni- ous [ b ] modern hath taken fome pains to fatisfy this difficulty , and in part , I think , hath fuc- ceeded . His folution , in brief , is , " That the " moral and political aphorifms of the Greek ...
... Sophocles and Euripides ? " An ingeni- ous [ b ] modern hath taken fome pains to fatisfy this difficulty , and in part , I think , hath fuc- ceeded . His folution , in brief , is , " That the " moral and political aphorifms of the Greek ...
Page 175
... Sophocles and Euripides , a general prevailing fondness for moral wifdom , which feems to have made the fashionable study of men of all ranks in those days ; when schools of philosophy were reforted reforted to for recreation as well as ...
... Sophocles and Euripides , a general prevailing fondness for moral wifdom , which feems to have made the fashionable study of men of all ranks in those days ; when schools of philosophy were reforted reforted to for recreation as well as ...
Page 180
... ftill the fashion was fo general , that no commerce of the world could avoid , or wholly get clear of it ; and therefore Sophocles , though his engagements in the state kept kept him at a greater diftance from the schools , 180 NOTES ON ...
... ftill the fashion was fo general , that no commerce of the world could avoid , or wholly get clear of it ; and therefore Sophocles , though his engagements in the state kept kept him at a greater diftance from the schools , 180 NOTES ON ...
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