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Aeschylus
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  • Aeschylus, Agamemnon  (source)
  • Aeschylus (translated) the same.†  (source)
  • In fact, Aeschylus he found sublime—and dull: he could not understand his great reputation.†  (source)
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  • Amory, lately I reread Aeschylus and there in the divine irony of the "Agamemnon" I find the only answer to this bitter age—all the world tumbled about our ears, and the closest parallel ages back in that hopeless resignation.†  (source)
  • Why should AEschylus have sung two thousand years before Shakespeare was born?†  (source)
  • Jesus Christ made a pun on St. Peter, Moses on Isaac, AEschylus on Polynices, Cleopatra on Octavius.†  (source)
  • Meanwhile I will read, as soon as I am settled in Christminster, the books I have not been able to get hold of here: Livy, Tacitus, Herodotus, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Aristophanes—†  (source)
  • The Agamemnon of Aeschylus is based on this legend.†  (source)
  • Ah, my boy, it is not only woman's love that is [two greek words omitted] as old AEschylus calls it.†  (source)
  • The student may read Homer or AEschylus in the Greek without danger of dissipation or luxuriousness, for it implies that he in some measure emulate their heroes, and consecrate morning hours to their pages.†  (source)
  • What the Greeks only suspected we know well; what their Aeschylus imagined our nursery children feel.†  (source)
  • 'tis an anapaest of AEschylus which expresses grief perfectly.†  (source)
  • He saw the grandeur of the Prometheus fable—but the fable moved him more than the play of Aeschylus.†  (source)
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