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Pagina 144
Of the ancient poets every reader feels the mythology tedious and oppressive. Of
Hudibras, the manners, being founded on opinions, are temporary and local, and
therefore become every day less intelligible, and less striking. What Cicero ...
Of the ancient poets every reader feels the mythology tedious and oppressive. Of
Hudibras, the manners, being founded on opinions, are temporary and local, and
therefore become every day less intelligible, and less striking. What Cicero ...
Pagina 337
Then we are not touched with the sufferings of any sort of men so much as of
lovers; and this was almost unknown to the ancients: so that they neither
administered poetical justice, of which Mr. Rymer boasts, so well as we; neither
knew they ...
Then we are not touched with the sufferings of any sort of men so much as of
lovers; and this was almost unknown to the ancients: so that they neither
administered poetical justice, of which Mr. Rymer boasts, so well as we; neither
knew they ...
Pagina 338
'Next shew in what ancient tragedy was deficient: for example, in the narrowness
of its plots, and fewness of persons, and try whether that be not a fault in the
Greek poets ; and whether their excellency was so great, when the variety was ...
'Next shew in what ancient tragedy was deficient: for example, in the narrowness
of its plots, and fewness of persons, and try whether that be not a fault in the
Greek poets ; and whether their excellency was so great, when the variety was ...
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