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Page 267
... tragedy or comedy . This of POPE is particular , and appropriated to the tragedy alone , • Milton was particularly fond of this writer . The fol- lowing paffage is curious , and has not been taken notice of by the late writers of his ...
... tragedy or comedy . This of POPE is particular , and appropriated to the tragedy alone , • Milton was particularly fond of this writer . The fol- lowing paffage is curious , and has not been taken notice of by the late writers of his ...
Page 271
... tragedy ought ne- ceffarily to turn , and without which it can- not fubfift . It wants alfo CHARACTER , although that be not fo effentially neceffary to a tragedy as ACTION . Syphax , indeed , in his interview with Juba , bears fome ...
... tragedy ought ne- ceffarily to turn , and without which it can- not fubfift . It wants alfo CHARACTER , although that be not fo effentially neceffary to a tragedy as ACTION . Syphax , indeed , in his interview with Juba , bears fome ...
Page 275
... tragedies may be written , without having recourfe to a love - story . It is pity that the tragedy of Cato , in which all the rules of the drama , as far as the mechanism of writing reaches , are ob- served , is not exact with respect ...
... tragedies may be written , without having recourfe to a love - story . It is pity that the tragedy of Cato , in which all the rules of the drama , as far as the mechanism of writing reaches , are ob- served , is not exact with respect ...
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