The preface and commentary to the Antigone are even more creditable to Mr. Woolsey's ability than those to the Alcestis. The sketch of the poem, in the preface, is written with clearness and brevity. The difficulties in this play, that call for a commentator's... An Elementary Treatise on Plane and Solid Geometry - Page 6by Benjamin Peirce - 1837 - 159 pagesFull view - About this book
| North American review and miscellaneous journal - 1836 - 612 pages
...'and character, is not unlike, as Mr. Woolsey intimates, the conclusion of Shakspeare's Winter's Tale. The Preface and Commentary to Antigone, are even more...explanation, are far more numerous, than in the Alcestis. Besides the many subtle forms of expression in the iambic dialogue, the choral songs, rising to a high... | |
| Jared Sparks, James Russell Lowell, Edward Everett, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1836 - 588 pages
...Shakspeare's Winter's Tale. The Preface and Commentary to Antigone, are even more creditable to Mr. Woolsey 's ability, than those to Alcestis. The sketch of the...commentator's explanation, are far more numerous, than in the Alcesus. Besides the many subtle forms of expression in the iambic dialogue, the choral songs, rising... | |
| Richard Whately - Philosophy - 1845 - 222 pages
...and commentary to the Antigone are even more creditable to Mr. Woolsey's ability that those to the Alcestis. The sketch of the poem, in the preface,...shades of meaning, than •we have ever met with in the explanations of any other edition whatever. ' We conclude this notice by again expressing our satisfaction... | |
| Benjamin Peirce - Plane trigonometry - 1845 - 498 pages
...and commentarv to the Antigone are even more creditable to Mr. Woolsey's ability that those to the Alcestis. The sketch of the poem, in the preface,...together in a more intelligible form, and shows a slmrper perception of delicate shades of meaning, than we have ever met with in the explanations of... | |
| Anna Cabot Lowell - Geometry - 1846 - 216 pages
...and commentarv to the Antigone are even more creditable to Mr. Woolsey's ability than tliose to the Alcestis. The sketch of the poem, in the preface,...commentator's explanation, are far more numerous than in the Aicestis. In Mr. Woolsey's commentaries on these numberless knotty passages, he puts them together... | |
| Benjamin Peirce - Geometry - 1847 - 204 pages
...and commentary to the Antigone are even more creditable to Mr. Woolsey's ability than those to the Alcestis. The sketch of the poem, in the preface,...delicate shades of meaning, than we have ever met with in the explanations of any other edition whatever. 'We conclude this notice by again expressing our satisfaction... | |
| Richard Whately - Exposition (Rhetoric) - 1848 - 380 pages
...and commentary to the Antigone are even more creditable to Mr. Woolsey's ability than those to the Alcestis. The sketch of the poem, in the preface,...sharper perception of delicate shades of meaning, than wo have ever met with in the explanations of any other edition whatever. * We conclude this notice... | |
| Demosthenes - 1850 - 284 pages
...and commentary to the Antigone are even more creditable to Mr. Woolsey's ability than those to the Alcestis. The sketch of the poem, in the preface, is written with clearness and brevity. * • " We conclude this notice by again expressing our satisfaction at the appearance of these works.... | |
| Aeschylus - 1850 - 136 pages
...and commentary to the Antigone are even more creditable to Mr. Woolsey's ability than thoje to the Alcestis. The sketch of the poem, in the preface, is written with clearness and brevity. * * " We conclude this notice by again expressing our satisfaction at the appearance of these works.... | |
| Demosthenes - 1851 - 280 pages
...and commentary to the Antigone are even more creditable to Mr. Woolsey's ability than those to the Alcestis. The sketch of the poem, in the preface,...sharper perception of delicate shades of meaning, than wo have ever met with in the explanations of any other edition whatever. 'We conclude this notice by... | |
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