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... Hercules has come . Heroic action is similarly given its due in a line or two of the opening scenes of the Two Gentlemen , A Mid- summer - Night's Dream , Much Ado , and As You Like It . From then on only the life of contemplation lies ...
... Hercules has come . Heroic action is similarly given its due in a line or two of the opening scenes of the Two Gentlemen , A Mid- summer - Night's Dream , Much Ado , and As You Like It . From then on only the life of contemplation lies ...
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... Hercules embodies the shepherd as well as the warrior - a tradition to which the Alcestis , Theocritus ' Idyll XXIV , and Milton's nativity hymn all subscribe . This duality is a counterpart to the logic of discordia concors , the ...
... Hercules embodies the shepherd as well as the warrior - a tradition to which the Alcestis , Theocritus ' Idyll XXIV , and Milton's nativity hymn all subscribe . This duality is a counterpart to the logic of discordia concors , the ...
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... Hercules , in- clining to virtus . ( 1. ii ) Don Armado and Moth in a travesty of this pose , inclining to voluptas : ' Comfort me , boy . What great men have been in love ? ' Moth : ' Hercules , master . ' ( ll . 63-5 ) ( II ) The ...
... Hercules , in- clining to virtus . ( 1. ii ) Don Armado and Moth in a travesty of this pose , inclining to voluptas : ' Comfort me , boy . What great men have been in love ? ' Moth : ' Hercules , master . ' ( ll . 63-5 ) ( II ) The ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION Pastoralism and Aesthetic Platonic Tradition I | 1 |
THE PASTORALISM OF TASSOS AMINTA | 21 |
The Shepherds Life | 44 |
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