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... 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 dreadful folitude , - I never heard A found fo difmal as ...
... 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 dreadful folitude , - I never heard A found fo difmal as ...
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... tragedies . This remark of Aristotle , 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 Aristotle , 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 ...
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... the ancients abound , carry on the chief defign of the piece ; and has by these * Ver . 793 . + Ver . 795 . Ver . 1235. et feq . means means accomplished what is a great difficulty in writing tragedy 70 ESSAY ON THE GENIUS 1 ...
... the ancients abound , carry on the chief defign of the piece ; and has by these * Ver . 793 . + Ver . 795 . Ver . 1235. et feq . means means accomplished what is a great difficulty in writing tragedy 70 ESSAY ON THE GENIUS 1 ...
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... tragedy that he should fall asleep , 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 verse 791 of that play . And thus ...
... tragedy that he should fall asleep , 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 verse 791 of that play . And thus ...
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... tragedy of Elfrida , hath given occafion to a kind of controverfy among the more curious critics , concerning the utility of the chorus , which , after the model of the ancients , he hath endea- voured to revive . To imagine , that the ...
... tragedy of Elfrida , hath given occafion to a kind of controverfy among the more curious critics , concerning the utility of the chorus , which , after the model of the ancients , he hath endea- voured to revive . To imagine , that the ...
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