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Pagina 152
... Tragedy is the nobleft Production of humane Nature , fo it is capable of giving the Mind one of the most delightful and most improving Entertainments . A virtuous Man ( fays Seneca ) ftruggling with Misfortunes , is fuch a Spectacle as ...
... Tragedy is the nobleft Production of humane Nature , fo it is capable of giving the Mind one of the most delightful and most improving Entertainments . A virtuous Man ( fays Seneca ) ftruggling with Misfortunes , is fuch a Spectacle as ...
Pagina 153
... Tragedy . I am therefore very much offended when I fee a Play in Rhyme ; which is abfurd in English , as a Tragedy of Hexameters would have been in Greek or Latin . The Solæcifm is , I think , ftill greater in thofe Plays that have some ...
... Tragedy . I am therefore very much offended when I fee a Play in Rhyme ; which is abfurd in English , as a Tragedy of Hexameters would have been in Greek or Latin . The Solæcifm is , I think , ftill greater in thofe Plays that have some ...
Pagina 155
... Tragedy , but fre- quently loft in fuch a Cloud of Words , that it is hard to fee the Beauty of them : There is an infinite Fire in his Works , but fo involved in Smoke , that it does not ap- pear in half its Luftre . He frequently ...
... Tragedy , but fre- quently loft in fuch a Cloud of Words , that it is hard to fee the Beauty of them : There is an infinite Fire in his Works , but fo involved in Smoke , that it does not ap- pear in half its Luftre . He frequently ...
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