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... Greek and Mediæval Dramas - Similarity of their Origin - Illusion in the Drama - Mysteries or Miracle Plays Their Subject and Construction - Moralities - The Vice -Interludes - The Four P.'s - First Regular Dramas -- Comedies -Tragedies ...
... Greek and Mediæval Dramas - Similarity of their Origin - Illusion in the Drama - Mysteries or Miracle Plays Their Subject and Construction - Moralities - The Vice -Interludes - The Four P.'s - First Regular Dramas -- Comedies -Tragedies ...
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... Greek heroic age , by the tumulus of the Etruscan peoples , and by the barrows of the Teutons ) , was nevertheless adopted as being a more local and exact image of the same hero - burial among the Celts . With regard to the paucity of ...
... Greek heroic age , by the tumulus of the Etruscan peoples , and by the barrows of the Teutons ) , was nevertheless adopted as being a more local and exact image of the same hero - burial among the Celts . With regard to the paucity of ...
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... Greek ) , " brown , " & c .; the commoner and simpler acts of life , " to run , ' , " " to fly , " " to eat , " " to sing , " & c . ; the primary and fundamental passions of our nature , and the verbs which express those passions as in ...
... Greek ) , " brown , " & c .; the commoner and simpler acts of life , " to run , ' , " " to fly , " " to eat , " " to sing , " & c . ; the primary and fundamental passions of our nature , and the verbs which express those passions as in ...
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... Greek derivation : thus , " God , " " fiend , " " wicked , " " righteous , " " hell , " " faith , " " hope , " & c ... Greek origins . That this substitution ( for which we shall endeavour to assign a reason ) of Latin and Greek ...
... Greek derivation : thus , " God , " " fiend , " " wicked , " " righteous , " " hell , " " faith , " " hope , " & c ... Greek origins . That this substitution ( for which we shall endeavour to assign a reason ) of Latin and Greek ...
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Thomas Budd Shaw. reason ) of Latin and Greek derivatives for words of Saxon stock has been injurious in some cases to the expressiveness , and in all to the vigour , of the modern idiom , no one can deny who compares the distinctness of ...
Thomas Budd Shaw. reason ) of Latin and Greek derivatives for words of Saxon stock has been injurious in some cases to the expressiveness , and in all to the vigour , of the modern idiom , no one can deny who compares the distinctness of ...
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