Selected Prose Works of G. E. Lessing

according action actor Ægisthus Æneid Æsop Agesander ancient artists antiquity appear Aristotle Athenodorus awaken beauty believe bodily pain Boissard called Caylus character comedy Corneille critic crooked feet disgusting Euripides excite expression eyes fable fear feel figure French fury genius Greek hand hero Herr Klotz Herr Winckelmann Homer horrible Ialysus idea Iliad imagination imitation inscription Laokoon latter least less Lysippus Maffei means Merope Molière monument nature never object Ovid painter painting passage passion Pausanias person personages Pheidias Philoktetes picture Pighius pity play Pliny poet poetical poetry Polydorus Polyphontes prove quæ reason rendered represent Death representation reversed torch says scene serpents shield shriek skeleton Sleep Sophokles soul speak spectators Spence Statius statue taste theatre thing tion tragedy tragic translation true ugliness Virgil Voltaire whole wish words Zaire δὲ ἐν καὶ μὲν τὸ