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... , that Being is Seeming , and that man is the measure of all things . Nor was the sanctity of the arts more respected than the sanctity of the religion with which they were associated . Aristophanes makes Æschylus say 27 BEFORE PLATO.
... , that Being is Seeming , and that man is the measure of all things . Nor was the sanctity of the arts more respected than the sanctity of the religion with which they were associated . Aristophanes makes Æschylus say 27 BEFORE PLATO.
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... Æschylus , Sophocles and Euripides . It was with these , the classic examples , that he was alone con- cerned . His theory of poetry is based , not upon some unrealized ideal , but upon the models he had before him . These he analyses ...
... Æschylus , Sophocles and Euripides . It was with these , the classic examples , that he was alone con- cerned . His theory of poetry is based , not upon some unrealized ideal , but upon the models he had before him . These he analyses ...
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... Æschylus and Sophocles chose . In like manner our own George Eliot , Thomas Hardy , Meredith , Henry James , made their characters sub- servient to a pattern of life , or at least an interesting fragment of a pattern , into which the ...
... Æschylus and Sophocles chose . In like manner our own George Eliot , Thomas Hardy , Meredith , Henry James , made their characters sub- servient to a pattern of life , or at least an interesting fragment of a pattern , into which the ...
Contents
Contents CHAPTER PAGE I THE LIGHT FROM HEAVEN II | 11 |
THE FIRST CRITIC | 16 |
THE LITERATURE OF POWER | 22 |
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