An Essay on the Writings and Genius of Pope, 1. köideM. Cooper, 1756 |
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... Tragedy of AGAMEMNON , after telling us he was conveyed in a veffel , at mid - night , to the wildest of the Cyclades , adds , when the pitilefs mariners had left him in that dreadful folitude , * MESS . v . 23 . † v . 70 . I never ...
... Tragedy of AGAMEMNON , after telling us he was conveyed in a veffel , at mid - night , to the wildest of the Cyclades , adds , when the pitilefs mariners had left him in that dreadful folitude , * MESS . v . 23 . † v . 70 . I never ...
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... tragedy , altered from Shakespear by the Duke of Buckingham ; in which we see , that the most accurate obfervation of dramatic rules without genius , is of no effect . These choruses are * On yonder plain , Along whose willow - fringed ...
... tragedy , altered from Shakespear by the Duke of Buckingham ; in which we see , that the most accurate obfervation of dramatic rules without genius , is of no effect . These choruses are * On yonder plain , Along whose willow - fringed ...
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... tragedies . This remark of Aristotle , tho he does not himself produce any examples , may be verified from the following among many others . In the Phoenicians of Euripides , they fing * Κεφ . η . περί ποιητικης . a a long and very ...
... tragedies . This remark of Aristotle , tho he does not himself produce any examples , may be verified from the following among many others . In the Phoenicians of Euripides , they fing * Κεφ . η . περί ποιητικης . a a long and very ...
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... tragedy , has united poetry with propriety . In the Philoctetes the chorus takes a natural * occafion , at verfe 694 , to give a minute and moving picture of the folitary life of that unfortunate hero ; and when afterwards at verse 855 ...
... tragedy , has united poetry with propriety . In the Philoctetes the chorus takes a natural * occafion , at verfe 694 , to give a minute and moving picture of the folitary life of that unfortunate hero ; and when afterwards at verse 855 ...
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... tragedy of Elfrida , hath given occafion to a kind of controverfy among the more curious critics , concerning the utility of the chorus , which , after the model of the ancients , he hath endeavoured to revive . To imagine , that the ...
... tragedy of Elfrida , hath given occafion to a kind of controverfy among the more curious critics , concerning the utility of the chorus , which , after the model of the ancients , he hath endeavoured to revive . To imagine , that the ...
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