A Course of Lectures on Dramatic Art and LiteratureH.G. Bohn, 1846 - 535 pages |
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... Grecian ideal of human nature was perfect unison and proportion between all the powers , a natural harmony . The moderns , on the contrary , have arrived at the conscious- ness of an internal discord which renders such an ideal impos ...
... Grecian ideal of human nature was perfect unison and proportion between all the powers , a natural harmony . The moderns , on the contrary , have arrived at the conscious- ness of an internal discord which renders such an ideal impos ...
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... Grecian art and poetry , we are not merely observing the order of time , but also the order of ideas . In the case of the majority of my hearers , I can hardly presume upon a direct acquaintance with the Greeks , derived from the study ...
... Grecian art and poetry , we are not merely observing the order of time , but also the order of ideas . In the case of the majority of my hearers , I can hardly presume upon a direct acquaintance with the Greeks , derived from the study ...
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... Grecian women did , and from this independence they fully participated in the over- whelming tide of corruption which accompanied external refinement . The differences being so essential , an original Roman comedy would have been a ...
... Grecian women did , and from this independence they fully participated in the over- whelming tide of corruption which accompanied external refinement . The differences being so essential , an original Roman comedy would have been a ...
Contents
Preface of the Translator | 1 |
Memoir of the Life of Augustus William Schlegel | 7 |
LECTURE I | 17 |
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