Milton and Euripides in New Primer Series Review
A critical look at two new educational primers on Milton by Stopford Brooke and Euripides by Mahaffy. The review praises Brooke’s balanced life sketch and Paradise Lost focus while noting Johnsonian sarcasm and the series aims to spark broader study, with Mahaffy’s Greek volume emphasizing poet age and environment alongside dramatic analysis and a Browning translation sample.
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Milton
Stopford Brooke
Euripides
Mahaffy
Brooke
Shaksper
Johnson
England
Te . Brooke
Westminster
Urania
Matthew Arnold
Professor Mahaffy
Poetic Fragment on Love and Aphrodite by Alpheian River
Idly by the Alpheian river the speaker notes offerings from the bull at Pythian shrines. Hellas heaps blood offerings while Love is not worshipped, not the lord of men. Love comes to mortals as a widening, woeful force beyond the deep.
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Phoebus
Hellas
Aphrodité
The Twins of Table Mountains by Bret Harte
Bret Harte returns to the Western mountains with the Twins of Table Mountains Ruth and Rand and Mornie the young woman whose secret draws out the brothers. The scene blends rugged frontier life with vivid nature and the perilous rescue on a cliff as Rand battles danger and mistaken identity.
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Bret Harte
Table Mountain
Ruth
Rand
Rutherford
Randolph
Mornie
Mr. Sol
Euphemia
Doctor
Mr. Harte
Marnie
Marnie Nixon
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Green’s Classical Writers
Zeus
Table Mountains
Brur Hawty
Chatte
Windus