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Page 80
The chief interests of the play are perhaps the por- trayal of the sweet womanliness of Deianeira , and the ... interest and no more of the ewig - weibliche than there is in Mr. Updegraf's recent business novel , Captains in Con ...
The chief interests of the play are perhaps the por- trayal of the sweet womanliness of Deianeira , and the ... interest and no more of the ewig - weibliche than there is in Mr. Updegraf's recent business novel , Captains in Con ...
Page 105
... interest in the moral betterment of the world , and no interest in righteous or sinful acts of men . No man in Homer ever expected that virtue would be rewarded or wickedness punished by the gods , but all alike faced an immortality ...
... interest in the moral betterment of the world , and no interest in righteous or sinful acts of men . No man in Homer ever expected that virtue would be rewarded or wickedness punished by the gods , but all alike faced an immortality ...
Page 123
... interest must be aroused in that new audience to hear from Odysseus's own lips the story of his wanderings . Nothing that is told in the early books of the Odyssey has been told to the Phaeacians , hence the poet must start in afresh to ...
... interest must be aroused in that new audience to hear from Odysseus's own lips the story of his wanderings . Nothing that is told in the early books of the Odyssey has been told to the Phaeacians , hence the poet must start in afresh to ...
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