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Page 77
... EURIPIDES . But here it may not be improper to obviate a common mistake that feems to have arifen from the too ftrict interpretation of the poet's rule . Tragic characters , he fays , will generally exprefs their forrows in a profaic ...
... EURIPIDES . But here it may not be improper to obviate a common mistake that feems to have arifen from the too ftrict interpretation of the poet's rule . Tragic characters , he fays , will generally exprefs their forrows in a profaic ...
Page 86
... Euripides , tranflated into Latin , and accommo- dated to the Roman ftage by one of these writers . It remains only to enquire , if the Telephus itself of Euripides answered to this cha- [ b ] See Robert Stephens's Fragm . Vet ...
... Euripides , tranflated into Latin , and accommo- dated to the Roman ftage by one of these writers . It remains only to enquire , if the Telephus itself of Euripides answered to this cha- [ b ] See Robert Stephens's Fragm . Vet ...
Page 87
... Euripides . Some part of it is particularly levelled against his Telephus whence we may certainly learn the objections that were made to it . Yet the amount of them is only this , " That he had " drawn the character of Telephus in too ...
... Euripides . Some part of it is particularly levelled against his Telephus whence we may certainly learn the objections that were made to it . Yet the amount of them is only this , " That he had " drawn the character of Telephus in too ...
Page 96
... humanity , that it is no wonder , fo few have fucceeded in this trying part of the drama . Euripides , of all the antients , [ c ] Sir Philip Sidney . hád lad moft of this fympathetic tenderness in his nature , 96 NOTES ON THE.
... humanity , that it is no wonder , fo few have fucceeded in this trying part of the drama . Euripides , of all the antients , [ c ] Sir Philip Sidney . hád lad moft of this fympathetic tenderness in his nature , 96 NOTES ON THE.
Page 102
... Horace took this inftance from Euripides , where the unconquered fierceness of this character is pre- ferved in that due mediocrity , which nature and just juft writing demand . The poet , in giving her 102 NOTES ON THE.
... Horace took this inftance from Euripides , where the unconquered fierceness of this character is pre- ferved in that due mediocrity , which nature and just juft writing demand . The poet , in giving her 102 NOTES ON THE.
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