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Pagina 287
Dryden may be properly considered as the father of English criticism, as the
writer who first taught us to determine upon principles the merit of composition. Of
our former poets, the greatest dramatist wrote without rules, conducted through
life ...
Dryden may be properly considered as the father of English criticism, as the
writer who first taught us to determine upon principles the merit of composition. Of
our former poets, the greatest dramatist wrote without rules, conducted through
life ...
Pagina 335
'He who undertakes to answer this excellent critique of Mr. Rymer, in behalf of our
English poets against the Greek, ought to do it in this manner. Either by yielding
to him the greatest part of what he contends for, which consists in this, that the ...
'He who undertakes to answer this excellent critique of Mr. Rymer, in behalf of our
English poets against the Greek, ought to do it in this manner. Either by yielding
to him the greatest part of what he contends for, which consists in this, that the ...
Pagina 336
'For the fable itself; 'tis in the English more adorned with episodes, and larger
than in the Greek poets; consequently more diverting. For, if the action be but one
, and that plain, without any counterturn of design or episode, i.e. under-plot, how
...
'For the fable itself; 'tis in the English more adorned with episodes, and larger
than in the Greek poets; consequently more diverting. For, if the action be but one
, and that plain, without any counterturn of design or episode, i.e. under-plot, how
...
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