The Analectic Magazine, Volume 3Published and sold by Moses Thomas, 1814 |
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Page 179
... Euripides and Pindar , are not so likely to evaporate , while we pause to ascertain the precise meaning of a word , or a phrase , as the lighter shades of feeling excited by comedy . To be consulting the scholiast , when we ought to be ...
... Euripides and Pindar , are not so likely to evaporate , while we pause to ascertain the precise meaning of a word , or a phrase , as the lighter shades of feeling excited by comedy . To be consulting the scholiast , when we ought to be ...
Page 180
... Euripides , could have not only endured , but en- couraged and insisted upon the buffoonery and ribaldry of the comic writers . We can ascribe this depravity of taste to no cause so much as the little intercourse which subsisted between ...
... Euripides , could have not only endured , but en- couraged and insisted upon the buffoonery and ribaldry of the comic writers . We can ascribe this depravity of taste to no cause so much as the little intercourse which subsisted between ...
Page 183
... Euripides , and Cleon . His motives for at- tacking the former are not sufficiently clear . The idle story of his being suborned by Melitus to write the comedy of the Clouds , and thus to pave the way for the death of Socrates , is ...
... Euripides , and Cleon . His motives for at- tacking the former are not sufficiently clear . The idle story of his being suborned by Melitus to write the comedy of the Clouds , and thus to pave the way for the death of Socrates , is ...
Page 184
... Euripides we must imagine to have particu- larly excited the spleen of Aristophanes . He is the cushion on which his wit reposes at all times . The poet seems to have considered him as a piece of private property , always at hand . The ...
... Euripides we must imagine to have particu- larly excited the spleen of Aristophanes . He is the cushion on which his wit reposes at all times . The poet seems to have considered him as a piece of private property , always at hand . The ...
Page 189
... Euripides had covertly reproached the Athenians with the unjust murder of Socrates . To relish thoroughly the wit and humour of this diverting comedy , it is necessary that the reader should be fully master of the plays of Eschylus and ...
... Euripides had covertly reproached the Athenians with the unjust murder of Socrates . To relish thoroughly the wit and humour of this diverting comedy , it is necessary that the reader should be fully master of the plays of Eschylus and ...
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