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... 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 ...
... 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 ...
Page 337
... ancients : so that they neither administered poetical justice , of which Mr. Rymer boasts , so well as we ; neither knew they the best commonplace of pity , which is love . ' He therefore unjustly blames us for not building on what the ...
... ancients : so that they neither administered poetical justice , of which Mr. Rymer boasts , so well as we ; neither knew they the best commonplace of pity , which is love . ' He therefore unjustly blames us for not building on what the ...
Page 338
... ancient tragedy was deficient : for example , in the narrowness of its plots , and fewness of persons , and try ... ancients , except in this one example of Phaedra , cited by Mr. Rymer ; and in that how short they were of Fletcher ...
... ancient tragedy was deficient : for example , in the narrowness of its plots , and fewness of persons , and try ... ancients , except in this one example of Phaedra , cited by Mr. Rymer ; and in that how short they were of Fletcher ...
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| Title | Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1 Lives of the English Poets, Samuel Johnson Volumes 83-84 of World's classics |
| Author | Samuel Johnson |
| Editor | George Birkbeck Norman Hill |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press, 1968 |
| Original from | Pennsylvania State University |
| Digitized | 6 Jul 2011 |
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