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Page 12
... Tragedy of AGAMEMNON , after telling us he was conveyed in a vessel , at mid - night to the wildest of the Cyclades , adds , when the pitiless mariners had left him in that . dreadful folitude , I never heard A found so dismal as their ...
... Tragedy of AGAMEMNON , after telling us he was conveyed in a vessel , at mid - night to the wildest of the Cyclades , adds , when the pitiless mariners had left him in that . dreadful folitude , I never heard A found so dismal as their ...
Page 70
... tragedy altered from Shakespear by the duke of Buckingham ; in which we see , that the most accurate obfervation of dra- matic rules without genius is of no effect . Thefe chorufes are extremely elegant and harmonious ; but are they not ...
... tragedy altered from Shakespear by the duke of Buckingham ; in which we see , that the most accurate obfervation of dra- matic rules without genius is of no effect . Thefe chorufes are extremely elegant and harmonious ; but are they not ...
Page 71
... tragedies . This remark of Ariftotle , though he does not himself produce any examples , máy be verified from the following , among many others . In the Phoenicians of Euripides , they fing a long and very beautiful , but ill placed ...
... tragedies . This remark of Ariftotle , though he does not himself produce any examples , máy be verified from the following , among many others . In the Phoenicians of Euripides , they fing a long and very beautiful , but ill placed ...
Page 72
... tragedy , has unit- ed poetry with propriety . In the Philoc- Ver . 795 . + Ver . 1235. et feq . tetes The subject and fcene of this tragedy , fo romantic and uncommon , are highly pleafing to the imagination . See par- ticularly tetes ...
... tragedy , has unit- ed poetry with propriety . In the Philoc- Ver . 795 . + Ver . 1235. et feq . tetes The subject and fcene of this tragedy , fo romantic and uncommon , are highly pleafing to the imagination . See par- ticularly tetes ...
Page 73
... tragedy that he should fall afleep , it is then , that the chorus breaks out into an exquifite ode to fleep . As in the Antigone , with equal beauty and de- corum in an address to the god of love , at verfe 791 of that play . And thus ...
... tragedy that he should fall afleep , it is then , that the chorus breaks out into an exquifite ode to fleep . As in the Antigone , with equal beauty and de- corum in an address to the god of love , at verfe 791 of that play . And thus ...
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