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... given occafion to a kind of controverly among the more curious critics , concerning the utility of the chorus , which , after the model of the ancients , he hath en- deavoured to revive . That the great Gre- cian masters retained it ...
... given occafion to a kind of controverly among the more curious critics , concerning the utility of the chorus , which , after the model of the ancients , he hath en- deavoured to revive . That the great Gre- cian masters retained it ...
Page 171
... given precepts for comedy , did not likewife de- fcend to pofterity . 38. Horace ftill charms with graceful negligence , And without method talks us into fenfe * . THE Vulgar notion , that Horace's Epistle to the Pifos contains a ...
... given precepts for comedy , did not likewife de- fcend to pofterity . 38. Horace ftill charms with graceful negligence , And without method talks us into fenfe * . THE Vulgar notion , that Horace's Epistle to the Pifos contains a ...
Page 249
... given the fatyrift an oppor- tunity of indulging his ruling paffion , the expofing the bad poets , with which France . at that time abounded . Swift's Battle of the Books , at the end of the Tale of a Tub , is evidently taken from this ...
... given the fatyrift an oppor- tunity of indulging his ruling paffion , the expofing the bad poets , with which France . at that time abounded . Swift's Battle of the Books , at the end of the Tale of a Tub , is evidently taken from this ...
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