Critical Essays on Dramatic PoetryL. Davis and C. Reymers, 1761 - 274 |
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... Corneille , will be , with justice , look- ed upon , not as an enterprizing genius , who opens out to himself a new road , but as a very weak man unable to fupport himself in the ancient track . It has been attempted to give us tra ...
... Corneille , will be , with justice , look- ed upon , not as an enterprizing genius , who opens out to himself a new road , but as a very weak man unable to fupport himself in the ancient track . It has been attempted to give us tra ...
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... Corneille . But your most irregular plays have one great merit , which is that of action . We have tragedies in France that are esteemed , which are converfations , rather than a representation of facts . An ita- lian author wrote to me ...
... Corneille . But your most irregular plays have one great merit , which is that of action . We have tragedies in France that are esteemed , which are converfations , rather than a representation of facts . An ita- lian author wrote to me ...
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... Corneille once dared attempt in his Rodogune . He in- troduces a mother , who , in prefence of her courtiers , and an ambassador , wants to poifon her fon and her daughter - in - law , after having killed another fon with her own hands ...
... Corneille once dared attempt in his Rodogune . He in- troduces a mother , who , in prefence of her courtiers , and an ambassador , wants to poifon her fon and her daughter - in - law , after having killed another fon with her own hands ...
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... he did ; only because he faid them better . Corneille is never truly great , but when his expreffions are equal to his thoughts . Remember this precept of Mr. Boileau : C. 2 Et Et que tout ce qu'il dit facile à retenir , [ 27 ]
... he did ; only because he faid them better . Corneille is never truly great , but when his expreffions are equal to his thoughts . Remember this precept of Mr. Boileau : C. 2 Et Et que tout ce qu'il dit facile à retenir , [ 27 ]
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... fo natural that it will be easily imprinted on the mind . + One of Corneille's finest tragedies , by many looked upon as his master - piece . A tragedy of Racine's . critics critics fhould give me leave to mention love in a [ 28 ]
... fo natural that it will be easily imprinted on the mind . + One of Corneille's finest tragedies , by many looked upon as his master - piece . A tragedy of Racine's . critics critics fhould give me leave to mention love in a [ 28 ]
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