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... 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 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- ferved , is not exact with refpect ...
... 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- ferved , is not exact with refpect ...
Page 307
... tragedies we had ; and that the dialogue was particularly good . Our author himself attempted a tragedy on the ftory of TIMOLEON , but hot fatisfying himself , laid it afide . Pope told Mr. Harte , that Fenton's Epiftle to Lambard was ...
... tragedies we had ; and that the dialogue was particularly good . Our author himself attempted a tragedy on the ftory of TIMOLEON , but hot fatisfying himself , laid it afide . Pope told Mr. Harte , that Fenton's Epiftle to Lambard was ...
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