The Spectator, Volume 1George Atherton Aitken Routledge, 1975 |
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Pagina 167
... poets . there is something familiar and domestic in the fable of his tragedy , more than in those of any other poet , he has little pomp , but great force in his expressions . For which reason , though he has admirably succeeded in the ...
... poets . there is something familiar and domestic in the fable of his tragedy , more than in those of any other poet , he has little pomp , but great force in his expressions . For which reason , though he has admirably succeeded in the ...
Pagina 179
... poet has been disposed to do honour to his generals . It is impossible for the reader's imagination to multiply twenty men into such prodigious multi- tudes , or to fancy that two or three hundred thousand soldiers are fighting in a ...
... poet has been disposed to do honour to his generals . It is impossible for the reader's imagination to multiply twenty men into such prodigious multi- tudes , or to fancy that two or three hundred thousand soldiers are fighting in a ...
Pagina 302
... poet , to deter men from such un- natural contentions , describes a bloody battle and dreadful scene of death , occasioned by the mutual feuds which reigned in the families of an English and Scotch nobleman . That he designed this for ...
... poet , to deter men from such un- natural contentions , describes a bloody battle and dreadful scene of death , occasioned by the mutual feuds which reigned in the families of an English and Scotch nobleman . That he designed this for ...
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