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Prefaces and prologues to famous books

Charles William Eliot · 15th-century composition (Caxton’s translation/prologues and epilogues) compiled/republished in a 1909–1910 anthology

passage 308 of 312 · Act IV) The Tritons, the Satyrs, the Cyclops are grotesque, Polyphemus is a terrifying, Silenus a farcical grotesque. (60/64)

considered,--that is to say the inner mainspring, the pressure from without, and the impulsion already acquired,--we have exhausted not only all real causes but again all possible causes of movement.

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Prefaces and prologues to famous books · Charles William Eliot · 1464–1471