Lives of the English Poets, Volume 2Oxford University Press, 1964 |
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Pagina 287
... English genera- tion must mention with reverence as a critick and a poet . 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 ...
... English genera- tion must mention with reverence as a critick and a poet . 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 ...
Pagina 336
... English than in the Greek , which must be proved by comparing them , somewhat more equitably than Mr. Rymer has done . After all , we need not yield that the English way is less conducing to move pity and terror , because they often ...
... English than in the Greek , which must be proved by comparing them , somewhat more equitably than Mr. Rymer has done . After all , we need not yield that the English way is less conducing to move pity and terror , because they often ...
Pagina 340
... English audience . ' And if they proceeded upon a foundation of truer reason to please the Athenians than Shakespeare and Fletcher to please the English , it only shews that the Athenians were a more judicious people ; but the poet's ...
... English audience . ' And if they proceeded upon a foundation of truer reason to please the Athenians than Shakespeare and Fletcher to please the English , it only shews that the Athenians were a more judicious people ; but the poet's ...
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