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... remains to us . A summary of the play may give some idea of the mind and manner of the dramatists . At the beginning of the drama , Prometheus , who has offended Zeus , is chained to a rock by Hephæstus , the god who corresponds to the ...
... remains to us . A summary of the play may give some idea of the mind and manner of the dramatists . At the beginning of the drama , Prometheus , who has offended Zeus , is chained to a rock by Hephæstus , the god who corresponds to the ...
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... remains the best known of nineteenth - century philo- sophers , interesting to English readers from the influence he exercised on Frederic Harrison . The three best - known French historians of this period are Louis Adolphe Thiers , who ...
... remains the best known of nineteenth - century philo- sophers , interesting to English readers from the influence he exercised on Frederic Harrison . The three best - known French historians of this period are Louis Adolphe Thiers , who ...
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... remains and defies analysis . Considering him as a writer , Augustine Birrell says : He resembles one of his native streams , pent in at times between huge rocks , and tormented into foam , and then effecting its escape down some ...
... remains and defies analysis . Considering him as a writer , Augustine Birrell says : He resembles one of his native streams , pent in at times between huge rocks , and tormented into foam , and then effecting its escape down some ...
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CHAPTER PAGE I THE FIRST BOOKS IN THE WORLD | 1 |
HOMER | 18 |
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