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... human misery which Sophocles heard on the Aegean . " The great writer of tragedies had had all that the world can give , and yet in more than one passage of his works he insists on the emptiness of human life . Herodotus would probably ...
... human misery which Sophocles heard on the Aegean . " The great writer of tragedies had had all that the world can give , and yet in more than one passage of his works he insists on the emptiness of human life . Herodotus would probably ...
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... human fellowship in frailty and suffering . And beauty , the all - pervading , gracious serenity of an unfailing and unobtrusive art , takes from pathos and tragedy their sting . How beautiful , if sorrow had not made Sorrow more ...
... human fellowship in frailty and suffering . And beauty , the all - pervading , gracious serenity of an unfailing and unobtrusive art , takes from pathos and tragedy their sting . How beautiful , if sorrow had not made Sorrow more ...
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... human misery . It is calamities like the century of war be- tween Rome and Carthage which are the outcome when statesmen aim at the supremacy of their own nation by the destruction of every other , and when they dare to make human ...
... human misery . It is calamities like the century of war be- tween Rome and Carthage which are the outcome when statesmen aim at the supremacy of their own nation by the destruction of every other , and when they dare to make human ...
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