Author: John Frederick Boyes

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Published: 2015-07-02

Total Pages: 520

ISBN-13: 9781330562475

Excerpt from Illustrations of the Tragedies of Aeschylus and Sophocles, From the Greek, Latin, and English Poets: With an Introductory Essay Being sensible that the work which I now offer to the public is more confined in its objects than most publications connected with classical literature, and that though thus limited, its extent is likely to prove greater than the object in the eyes of many may appear to deserve, I think it desirable to say a few words in its defence, and to state some of the considerations which have induced me to hazard its reception by the classical reader. Having done this, I will offer a few remarks, which I have been led to make during the progress of the work: I prefer throwing these into the form of an Introduction, and so disposing of them at once, rather than scattering them at intervals throughout the work; so that the succeeding numbers may be - what they profess to be - collections of parallel passages. These remarks will chiefly have reference to two subjects. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.