Plato to Alexander Pope: Backgrounds of Modern CriticismWalter Sutton, Vivian Sutton Odyssey Press, 1966 - 243 pages |
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Page 177
... Ancients in most kinds of poesy and in some surpass them ; neither know I any reason why I may not be as zealous for the reputation of our age as we find the Ancients themselves in reference to those who lived before them . • • " But I ...
... Ancients in most kinds of poesy and in some surpass them ; neither know I any reason why I may not be as zealous for the reputation of our age as we find the Ancients themselves in reference to those who lived before them . • • " But I ...
Page 183
... Ancients to have contrived well , we must acknowledge them to have writ better . Questionless we are deprived of a great stock of wit in the loss of Menander among the Greek poets , and of Cæcilius , Afranius , and Varius , among the Ro ...
... Ancients to have contrived well , we must acknowledge them to have writ better . Questionless we are deprived of a great stock of wit in the loss of Menander among the Greek poets , and of Cæcilius , Afranius , and Varius , among the Ro ...
Page 191
... Ancients that they have surpassed them . For the Ancients , as was observed before , took for the founda- tion of their plays some poetical fiction , such as under that considera- tion could move but little concernment in the audience ...
... Ancients that they have surpassed them . For the Ancients , as was observed before , took for the founda- tion of their plays some poetical fiction , such as under that considera- tion could move but little concernment in the audience ...
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