Dramatic EssaysJ. M. Dent & sons, Limited, 1931 - 299 sivua |
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... things are as impossible as one another , because they are both equally im- possible : but he takes those two things to be granted as im- possible which he ought to have proved such , before he had proceeded to prove them equally ...
... things are as impossible as one another , because they are both equally im- possible : but he takes those two things to be granted as im- possible which he ought to have proved such , before he had proceeded to prove them equally ...
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... things in which Euripides , Sophocles , and Æschylus pleased : he considered how they raised the passions , and thence has drawn rules for our imitation . From hence have sprung the tropes and figures , for which they wanted a name ...
... things in which Euripides , Sophocles , and Æschylus pleased : he considered how they raised the passions , and thence has drawn rules for our imitation . From hence have sprung the tropes and figures , for which they wanted a name ...
Sivu 115
... things which really exist not , if they are founded on popular belief . Of this nature are fairies , pigmies , and the extraordinary effects of magic ; for ' tis still an imitation , though of other men's fancies : and thus are ...
... things which really exist not , if they are founded on popular belief . Of this nature are fairies , pigmies , and the extraordinary effects of magic ; for ' tis still an imitation , though of other men's fancies : and thus are ...
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EPISTLE DEDICATORY TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE CHARLES LORD | 1 |
A DEFENCE OF AN ESSAY OF DRAMATIC POESY | 60 |
ON COMEDY FARCE AND TRAGEDY | 77 |
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