The Agamemnon of AeschylusJ. Murray, 1831 - 267 |
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... touch of sublime and cultivated art . The intellectual superiority of Athens was re- cognized throughout Greece . Sparta , though always ready to encounter her at the point of the sword , shrunk with conscious inferiority from col ...
... touch of sublime and cultivated art . The intellectual superiority of Athens was re- cognized throughout Greece . Sparta , though always ready to encounter her at the point of the sword , shrunk with conscious inferiority from col ...
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... the various productions of poetry , second only in dignity to the epopee . He not only succeeded in acting upon the feelings , and touching the passions of his auditory , by means and for ends consistent with virtue and pro- priety ( 24 )
... the various productions of poetry , second only in dignity to the epopee . He not only succeeded in acting upon the feelings , and touching the passions of his auditory , by means and for ends consistent with virtue and pro- priety ( 24 )
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... touch the feelings like the tones of the human voice with a simple accompaniment , provided those tones be of a very fine quality . Here lay the true source , it is pro- bable , of that wonderful power ascribed to Gre- cian music in ...
... touch the feelings like the tones of the human voice with a simple accompaniment , provided those tones be of a very fine quality . Here lay the true source , it is pro- bable , of that wonderful power ascribed to Gre- cian music in ...
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... touch the feelings of the multi- tude of Athens : he therefore selected those topics to which the understandings and the hearts of his auditors would most surely and sympatheti- cally respond . A tone of ideal grandeur , it is true ...
... touch the feelings of the multi- tude of Athens : he therefore selected those topics to which the understandings and the hearts of his auditors would most surely and sympatheti- cally respond . A tone of ideal grandeur , it is true ...
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... touching a chord in the bosoms of his countrymen , the sympathetic vibration of which was certain . Even modern patriotism thrills at the mention of Marathon . Johnson's fine passage need not be quoted , because it is stored in the ...
... touching a chord in the bosoms of his countrymen , the sympathetic vibration of which was certain . Even modern patriotism thrills at the mention of Marathon . Johnson's fine passage need not be quoted , because it is stored in the ...
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