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 pitiless mariners had left him in that dread- ful folitude , * MESS . v . 23 . + v . 70 . I never I ...
... Tragedy of AGAMEMNON , after telling us he was conveyed in a veffel , at mid - night , to the wildest of the Cyclades , adds , when the pitiless mariners had left him in that dread- ful folitude , * MESS . v . 23 . + v . 70 . I never I ...
Page 70
... tragedy , altered from Shakespear by the Duke of Buck- ingham ; in which we fee , that the most accu- rate obfervation of dramatic rules without genius , is of no effect . * On yonder plain , Along whofe willow - fringed fide These ...
... tragedy , altered from Shakespear by the Duke of Buck- ingham ; in which we fee , that the most accu- rate obfervation of dramatic rules without genius , is of no effect . * On yonder plain , Along whofe willow - fringed fide These ...
Page 71
... tragedies . This remark of Ariftotle , 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 ποιητικής . a a long and very ...
... tragedies . This remark of Ariftotle , 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 ποιητικής . a a long and very ...
Page 73
... 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 verfe 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 verfe 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 en- deavoured 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 en- deavoured to revive . To imagine , that the ...
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