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Page 12
... Tragedy of AGAMEMNON , after telling us he was conveyed in a veffel , at mid - night to the wildeft of the Cyclades , adds , when the pitiless mariners had left him in that readful folitude , I never heard A found fo difmal as their ...
... Tragedy of AGAMEMNON , after telling us he was conveyed in a veffel , at mid - night to the wildeft of the Cyclades , adds , when the pitiless mariners had left him in that readful folitude , I never heard A found fo difmal as their ...
Page 70
... tragedy altered from Shakespear by the duke of Buckingham ; in which we fee , that the most accurate observation of dra- matic rules without genius is of no effect . These choruses are extremely elegant and harmonious ; but are they not ...
... tragedy altered from Shakespear by the duke of Buckingham ; in which we fee , that the most accurate observation of dra- matic rules without genius is of no effect . These choruses are extremely elegant and harmonious ; but are they not ...
Page 71
... tragedies . This remark of Ariftotle , though he does not himself produce any examples , may 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 , may 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 * Ver . 795 . + Ver . 1235 , et feq . Ke . unitting Philoc- tetes The subject and scene of this tragedy , fo romantic and uncommon , are highly pleafing to the imagination . See par ...
... tragedy , has unit ed poetry with propriety . In the * Ver . 795 . + Ver . 1235 , et feq . Ke . unitting Philoc- tetes The subject and scene of this tragedy , fo romantic and uncommon , are highly pleafing to the imagination . See par ...
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 addrefs 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 addrefs to the god of love , at verfe 791 of that play . And thus ...
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