The Spectator, Svazek 2 |
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Strana 23
He then shewed , by the examples of HORACE , JUVENAL , BOILEAU , and the best writers of every age , that the follies of the stage and court had never been accounted too sacred for ridicule , how great soever the persons might be that ...
He then shewed , by the examples of HORACE , JUVENAL , BOILEAU , and the best writers of every age , that the follies of the stage and court had never been accounted too sacred for ridicule , how great soever the persons might be that ...
Strana 26
AMONG all kinds of writing , there is none in which authors are more apt to miscarry than in works of Humour , as there is none in which they are more ambitious to excel . It is not an imagination that teems with monsters , an head that ...
AMONG all kinds of writing , there is none in which authors are more apt to miscarry than in works of Humour , as there is none in which they are more ambitious to excel . It is not an imagination that teems with monsters , an head that ...
Strana 29
Fifthly , Being incapable of having any thing but mock representations , his ridicule is always personal , and aimed at the vicious man , or the writer ; not at the vice , or at the writing . I have here only pointed at the whole ...
Fifthly , Being incapable of having any thing but mock representations , his ridicule is always personal , and aimed at the vicious man , or the writer ; not at the vice , or at the writing . I have here only pointed at the whole ...
Strana 44
The modern tragedy excels that of Greece and Rome , in the intricacy and disposition of the fable ; but , what a Christian Writer would be ashamed to own , falls infinitely short of it in the moral part of the performance .
The modern tragedy excels that of Greece and Rome , in the intricacy and disposition of the fable ; but , what a Christian Writer would be ashamed to own , falls infinitely short of it in the moral part of the performance .
Strana 45
Whether this defect in our tragedies may arise from want of genitis , knowledge , or experience in the writers , or from ... But I believe it might rectify the conduct both of the one and of the other , if the writer laid down the whole ...
Whether this defect in our tragedies may arise from want of genitis , knowledge , or experience in the writers , or from ... But I believe it might rectify the conduct both of the one and of the other , if the writer laid down the whole ...
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