Footnotes
- [Sir John Seeley’s] Natural Religion, p. 79.
- Milton, Samson Agonistes, 164-169.
- ‘Thou drawest awry
Just minds to wrong and ruin ...
... With resistless charm
Great Aphrodite mocks the might of men.’
Antigone. - Cf. Sophocles in Green’s ‘Classical Writers.’ Macmillan & Co.
- Oed. Tyr., 1881.
- Antigone, 1882.
- Ajax, Nov. 1882.
- Antigone, 1845.
- The performance of Greek plays (as of the Agamemnon at Oxford in 1880) is not altogether a new thing in England. The author of Ion, Mr. Serjeant Talfourd, in his Notice prefixed to that drama in 1836, mentions, amongst other reasons for having intended to dedicate it to Dr. Valpy, ‘the exquisite representations of Greek Tragedy, which he superintended,’ and which ‘made his images vital.’ At a still earlier time, ‘the great Dr. Parr’ had encouraged his pupils at Stanmore to recite the dialogue of Greek tragedies before an audience and in costume. It would be ungrateful to omit all reference here to some performances of the Trachiniae in English in Edinburgh and St. Andrews in 1877, which, though not of a public nature, are still remembered with delight by those who were present at them, and were really the first of a series.
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