...Sophocles appears with splendid dignity, like some imperial palace of richest architecture, the symmetry of whose parts, and the chaste magnificence of the...greatness, and with an awful sense of our own mortality. i In works of literature the public is little interested in the motives of the writer ; yet some account...

...storied windows admit a dim religious light, enough to shew us its high embossed roof, and the menu Jents of the dead, which rise in every part, impressing...greatness, and with an awful sense of our own mortality." phis ; the column of Arcadius at Constantinople ; or the various fragments, which adorn the memory...

...the solemnity of a Gothic temple, whose storied windows admit a dim religious light, enough to show its high embowed roof, and the monuments of the dead,...greatness, and with an awful sense of our own mortality." (Potter.) On the character of Enripide? and his writings, comp. Schlegel, Dram. Lit. lect. v. — CAcr....

...the solemnity of a Gothic temple, whose storied window» admit a dim religious light, enough to show its high embowed roof, and the monuments of the dead,...which rise in every part, impressing our minds with pily and terror at the uncertain and short duration of human greatness, and with an awful sense of...

...Gothic temple, whose storied windows admit a dim religious light, enough to show its high emhowed root, and the monuments of the dead, which rise in every part, impressing our minds with pity and lerror at the uncertain and short duration of human greatness, and with an awful sense of our own mortality."...

...Gothic temple, whose stained windows admit a dim religious light, enough to show us its high embowered roof, and the monuments of the dead which rise in...part, impressing our minds with pity and terror at the uncertainty and short duration of human greatness, and with an awful sense of our own mortality. The...

...show its high embowed roof, and the monuments of the dead which rise in every part, impressing onr minds with, pity and terror at the uncertain and short duration of human greatness, and with an awful seuse of onr own mortality." — Polt,'r. ' The best modern editious of Euripides are : that of Matthias,...

...the solemuity of a Gothic temple, whose storied windows admit a dim religions light, enongh to show its high embowed roof, and the monuments of the dead which rise in every part, impressing onr minds with pity and terror at the uncertain and short duration of human greatuess, and with an...

...Gothic temple, whose storied windows admit a dim, religious light, enough to show its high embowered roof, and the monuments of the dead, which rise in...greatness, and with an awful sense of our own mortality." 1 The essence of the old Greek tragedy may be mainly summed up in the prevailing idea of destiny, in...

...the solemnity of a Gothic temple, whose storied windows admit a dim religious light, enough to show its high embowed roof, and the monuments of the dead...every part, impressing our minds with pity and terror as emblems of the uncertain and short duration of human greatness, and with an awful sense of our own...