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Page ix
... comedy in fatire , could ne- wer be fufficient for this purpofe . For all , that he derived into it from thence , was , as Quinc- tilian fpeaks , libertas atque inde acerbitas et abunde falis . It fharpened his invective , and polished ...
... comedy in fatire , could ne- wer be fufficient for this purpofe . For all , that he derived into it from thence , was , as Quinc- tilian fpeaks , libertas atque inde acerbitas et abunde falis . It fharpened his invective , and polished ...
Page ix
... comedy , " it was of courfe to admit the familiarity of the comic mufe ; whofe genius is averfe from all constraint of order , fave that only which a natural , fuc- ceffive train of thinking unavoidably draws along with it . And this ...
... comedy , " it was of courfe to admit the familiarity of the comic mufe ; whofe genius is averfe from all constraint of order , fave that only which a natural , fuc- ceffive train of thinking unavoidably draws along with it . And this ...
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... Comedy , in the paffionate parts , will admit of a tragic elevation : and , 2. Tragedy , in its foft diftrefsful fcenes , condefcends to the ease of familiar conversation . But the poet had a further view in chufing this instance . For ...
... Comedy , in the paffionate parts , will admit of a tragic elevation : and , 2. Tragedy , in its foft diftrefsful fcenes , condefcends to the ease of familiar conversation . But the poet had a further view in chufing this instance . For ...
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... comedy ; which was artfully con- trived to infinuate the defective state of the Roman drama , and to admonish his countrymen , how far they had gone , and what yet remained to complete it . And hence with the advantage of the eafieft ...
... comedy ; which was artfully con- trived to infinuate the defective state of the Roman drama , and to admonish his countrymen , how far they had gone , and what yet remained to complete it . And hence with the advantage of the eafieft ...
Page 70
... be had to the different fpecies " of the fame kind of poetry [ 1. 89 , & c . ] as in " the cafe of tragedy and comedy ( to which the << appli- application is made ) whofe peculiar differences " and correspondencies 70 NOTES ON THE.
... be had to the different fpecies " of the fame kind of poetry [ 1. 89 , & c . ] as in " the cafe of tragedy and comedy ( to which the << appli- application is made ) whofe peculiar differences " and correspondencies 70 NOTES ON THE.
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