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... Aeschylus , either fail utterly or meet with poor success on the stage . Even Agathon has been known to fail from this one defect . In his Reversals of the Situation , however , he shows a marvellous skill in the effort to hit the ...
... Aeschylus , either fail utterly or meet with poor success on the stage . Even Agathon has been known to fail from this one defect . In his Reversals of the Situation , however , he shows a marvellous skill in the effort to hit the ...
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... Aeschylus , who writ nothing in cold blood , but was always in a rapture , and in fury with his audience : the in- spiration was still upon him , he was ever tearing it upon the tripos ; 30 or ( to run off as madly as he does , from one ...
... Aeschylus , who writ nothing in cold blood , but was always in a rapture , and in fury with his audience : the in- spiration was still upon him , he was ever tearing it upon the tripos ; 30 or ( to run off as madly as he does , from one ...
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... Aeschylus , Sophocles and Virgil , Dante , Shakespeare and Milton . Is it not time to discard the word " poetry " or to define it in such a way as to take account of the fact that the most intense , the most profound , the most ...
... Aeschylus , Sophocles and Virgil , Dante , Shakespeare and Milton . Is it not time to discard the word " poetry " or to define it in such a way as to take account of the fact that the most intense , the most profound , the most ...
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