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Pagina 232
... tragedy , than Aristotle has done , who places them in the last rank of beauties ; perhaps , only last in order , because they are the last product of the design , of the disposition or connexion of its parts ; of the characters , of ...
... tragedy , than Aristotle has done , who places them in the last rank of beauties ; perhaps , only last in order , because they are the last product of the design , of the disposition or connexion of its parts ; of the characters , of ...
Pagina 234
... tragedy . · ' Tis not enough that Aristotle has said so ; for Aristotle drew his models of tragedy from Sophocles and Euripides ; and , if he had seen ours , might have changed his mind . And chiefly we have to say ( what I hinted on ...
... tragedy . · ' Tis not enough that Aristotle has said so ; for Aristotle drew his models of tragedy from Sophocles and Euripides ; and , if he had seen ours , might have changed his mind . And chiefly we have to say ( what I hinted on ...
Pagina 235
... tragedy , which are pleasure and instruction . ' And these two ends may be thus distinguished . The chief end of the poet is to please ; for his immediate reputation depends on it . " The great part of the poem is to instruct , which is ...
... tragedy , which are pleasure and instruction . ' And these two ends may be thus distinguished . The chief end of the poet is to please ; for his immediate reputation depends on it . " The great part of the poem is to instruct , which is ...
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Absalom and Achitophel Addison afterwards appears beauties blank verse called censured character Charles Dryden comedy composition Congreve considered Cowley criticism death delight diction diligence dramatick Dryden Dunciad Earl easily elegance endeavoured English English poetry epick epitaph Euripides excellence fancy favour friends genius heroick Homer honour Iliad images imitation Jacob Tonson John Dryden judgement Juvenal kind King known labour lady language Latin learning Letters lines lived Lord Lord Halifax metaphysical poets Milton mind nature never numbers opinion Paradise Lost passions perhaps Pindar play pleasing pleasure poem poet poetical poetry Pope Pope's pounds praise preface produced publick published reader reason remarks reputation rhyme satire says seems sentiments shew shewn sometimes stanza supposed tell things Thomson thou thought tion told tragedy translation Tyrannick Love verses versification Virgil virtue WILLIAM CONGREVE words write written wrote