An Essay on the Writings and Genius of Pope, 1. köideM. Cooper, 1756 |
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Page 71
... Euripides , that they are foreign and adventitious to the fub- ject , and contribute nothing towards the ad- vancement of the main action ? Whereas the chorus ought , Μοριον ειναι το ολ8 , και σουαδωνι ζεσθαι , * to be a part or member ...
... Euripides , that they are foreign and adventitious to the fub- ject , and contribute nothing towards the ad- vancement of the main action ? Whereas the chorus ought , Μοριον ειναι το ολ8 , και σουαδωνι ζεσθαι , * to be a part or member ...
Page 122
... we except the cYCLOPS of Euripides . A poet never prefumed to plead in public , or to write history , or indeed any confiderable work in profe . The same actors never reci- ted. work * Ver . 88 . † No . 156 . 122 ESSAY ON THE WRITINGS.
... we except the cYCLOPS of Euripides . A poet never prefumed to plead in public , or to write history , or indeed any confiderable work in profe . The same actors never reci- ted. work * Ver . 88 . † No . 156 . 122 ESSAY ON THE WRITINGS.
Page 167
... usual vivacity and brevity ; " Corneille alone formed himself ; but Louis XIV . Colbert , Sophocles , and Euripides , all of them contributed to form Racine . " 37. The * Ver . 157 . heart . * Ver . AND GENIUS OF POPE . 167.
... usual vivacity and brevity ; " Corneille alone formed himself ; but Louis XIV . Colbert , Sophocles , and Euripides , all of them contributed to form Racine . " 37. The * Ver . 157 . heart . * Ver . AND GENIUS OF POPE . 167.
Page 174
... Euripides ONLY , among tragic writers ; among the historians , Ephorus , and Theopompus ; and Isocrates among the rhetoricians : all these , says he , have used words that are ΛΕΙΑ , και ΜΑΛΑΚΑ , και ΠΑΡΘΕΝΩΠΑ . The writers which he al ...
... Euripides ONLY , among tragic writers ; among the historians , Ephorus , and Theopompus ; and Isocrates among the rhetoricians : all these , says he , have used words that are ΛΕΙΑ , και ΜΑΛΑΚΑ , και ΠΑΡΘΕΝΩΠΑ . The writers which he al ...
Page 177
... Euripides , was so lively and picturesque : in- stead of which , he ardently exclaims , " would " not you say , that the foul of the writer af- " cended the chariot with the driver , and was " whirled along in the same flight and danger ...
... Euripides , was so lively and picturesque : in- stead of which , he ardently exclaims , " would " not you say , that the foul of the writer af- " cended the chariot with the driver , and was " whirled along in the same flight and danger ...
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