Excerpt from Orace and His Age: A Study in Historical Background Dialogue, the air must have for many been Oppressive with the memory of the sack of that island population, and charged with gloomy anticipations of retribution to follow in its wake. In the light of such knowledge it would not be difficult to invest many lines in the Troades (cf. 365 ar seq.) with a more poignant pity, and a greater depth of meaning, and that without any undue straining of the text. Instances might be multiplied indefinitely to show how a ...
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Excerpt from Orace and His Age: A Study in Historical Background Dialogue, the air must have for many been Oppressive with the memory of the sack of that island population, and charged with gloomy anticipations of retribution to follow in its wake. In the light of such knowledge it would not be difficult to invest many lines in the Troades (cf. 365 ar seq.) with a more poignant pity, and a greater depth of meaning, and that without any undue straining of the text. Instances might be multiplied indefinitely to show how a knowledge of the historical background will aid us in eliciting the full import of many a passage, which otherwise would have concealed half its meaning from our search. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... 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.
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