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Page 87
... mean he holds between the imaginative sublimity and intensity of Aeschylus and the ingenious verbosity , romantic fancies , and Browning - like fertility in ideas of Euripides . This could be and has been illustrated SOPHOCLES 87.
... mean he holds between the imaginative sublimity and intensity of Aeschylus and the ingenious verbosity , romantic fancies , and Browning - like fertility in ideas of Euripides . This could be and has been illustrated SOPHOCLES 87.
Page 88
... Aeschylus , Euripides and Shakespeare . " Sophocles , " said Edward Fitzgerald , " never jaws philosophy in the midst of passion . All his speeches advance instead of retarding it . " That contrasts him with Euripides and Browning . But ...
... Aeschylus , Euripides and Shakespeare . " Sophocles , " said Edward Fitzgerald , " never jaws philosophy in the midst of passion . All his speeches advance instead of retarding it . " That contrasts him with Euripides and Browning . But ...
Page 95
... Aeschylus . As a thinker , he may be less fertile in suggestion than the ingenious Euripides . But , regarded as a Greek artist , shaping Greek legends in the conventional moulds of Attic tragedy , he holds the just and perfect mean ...
... Aeschylus . As a thinker , he may be less fertile in suggestion than the ingenious Euripides . But , regarded as a Greek artist , shaping Greek legends in the conventional moulds of Attic tragedy , he holds the just and perfect mean ...
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