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... Sophocles . The third kind depends on memory when the sight of some object awakens a feeling : as in the Cyprians of Dicaeogenes , where the hero breaks into tears on seeing the picture ; or again in the " Lay of Alcinous , " where ...
... Sophocles . The third kind depends on memory when the sight of some object awakens a feeling : as in the Cyprians of Dicaeogenes , where the hero breaks into tears on seeing the picture ; or again in the " Lay of Alcinous , " where ...
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... Sophocles , remarking that in his pieces he always less considered a moral tendency than an apt treatment of the subject in hand , particularly with regard to theatrical effect . “ I do not object , " said Goethe , " to a dramatic poet ...
... Sophocles , remarking that in his pieces he always less considered a moral tendency than an apt treatment of the subject in hand , particularly with regard to theatrical effect . “ I do not object , " said Goethe , " to a dramatic poet ...
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... Sophocles in particular , in this respect following the lead of Aeschylus , has accepted and worked out in the finest way , is that of the body politic , the opposition , that is , between ethical life in its social universality and the ...
... Sophocles in particular , in this respect following the lead of Aeschylus , has accepted and worked out in the finest way , is that of the body politic , the opposition , that is , between ethical life in its social universality and the ...
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The Art of Poetry | 67 |
On the Sublime | 76 |
GIOVANNI BOCCACCIO 103 The Genealogy of the Gentile Gods | 112 |
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