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garments of Sophocles are pure of the pollution that still clings to Dante , or for Renan in his prayer to Pallas Athena on the Acropolis . If that is your view , as it is mine , you will find the religion of Sophocles in such choruses ...
garments of Sophocles are pure of the pollution that still clings to Dante , or for Renan in his prayer to Pallas Athena on the Acropolis . If that is your view , as it is mine , you will find the religion of Sophocles in such choruses ...
Page 89
... Sophocles remains the type of that harmony of reason and beauty which will always yield a higher kind of pleas- ure to those who submit their souls to its serene and soothing spell . Sophocles is then the best antidote to many of the ...
... Sophocles remains the type of that harmony of reason and beauty which will always yield a higher kind of pleas- ure to those who submit their souls to its serene and soothing spell . Sophocles is then the best antidote to many of the ...
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... Sophocles long ago Heard it on the Aegean , and it brought Into his mind the turbid ebb and flow Of human misery . How does Sophocles do this for us ? Why , broadly speaking , by such a union of reasonableness and beauty as no other ...
... Sophocles long ago Heard it on the Aegean , and it brought Into his mind the turbid ebb and flow Of human misery . How does Sophocles do this for us ? Why , broadly speaking , by such a union of reasonableness and beauty as no other ...
Contents
Paul Shorey | 57 |
THE POETIC STRUCTURE OF THE ODYSSEY | 97 |
ANCIENT EMPIRES AND The Modern WORLD | 125 |
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