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... tragedy ; not only as that was the fublimer fpecies of the Drama , but , as it fhould feem , lefs cultivated and understood . III . The lait part [ from 1. - 295 , to the end ] , exhorts to correctness in writing ; yet ftill with an eye ...
... tragedy ; not only as that was the fublimer fpecies of the Drama , but , as it fhould feem , lefs cultivated and understood . III . The lait part [ from 1. - 295 , to the end ] , exhorts to correctness in writing ; yet ftill with an eye ...
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... 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 he gets by this means into the main of his fubject , which was dra- matic ...
... 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 he gets by this means into the main of his fubject , which was dra- matic ...
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... tragedy being , originally , nothing more than a chorus or fong , fet to mufic , from which practice the harmony of the regular chorus in after- times had its rife , he takes occafion to digrefs [ from 1.202 to 220 ] in explaining the ...
... tragedy being , originally , nothing more than a chorus or fong , fet to mufic , from which practice the harmony of the regular chorus in after- times had its rife , he takes occafion to digrefs [ from 1.202 to 220 ] in explaining the ...
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... tragedy [ from 1. 251 to 275 ] the laws and ufe of the iambic foot ; reproving , at the fame time , the indolence or ill - taste of the Roman writers in this re- : spect , and fending them for inftruction to the Grecian models . Having ...
... tragedy [ from 1. 251 to 275 ] the laws and ufe of the iambic foot ; reproving , at the fame time , the indolence or ill - taste of the Roman writers in this re- : spect , and fending them for inftruction to the Grecian models . Having ...
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... tragedy and 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 ...
... tragedy and 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 ...
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