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... tragic elevation : and , 2. Tragedy , in its soft distressful scenes , condescends to the ease of familiar conversation . But the poet had a further view in chusing this instance . For he gets by this means into the main of his subject ...
... tragic elevation : and , 2. Tragedy , in its soft distressful scenes , condescends to the ease of familiar conversation . But the poet had a further view in chusing this instance . For he gets by this means into the main of his subject ...
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... TRAGIC STYLE ; which will be different , 1. [ to v . 111 ] according to the internal state and cha- racter of the speaker : thus one sort of expression will become the angry ; another , the sorrowful ; this , the Post effert animi motus ...
... TRAGIC STYLE ; which will be different , 1. [ to v . 111 ] according to the internal state and cha- racter of the speaker : thus one sort of expression will become the angry ; another , the sorrowful ; this , the Post effert animi motus ...
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... tragic . For , taking its rise , not from the flattering views of the poet , but the real situation of the actor , its opening must of necessity , be very simple and unpretending . And being , from its short term of action , unable ...
... tragic . For , taking its rise , not from the flattering views of the poet , but the real situation of the actor , its opening must of necessity , be very simple and unpretending . And being , from its short term of action , unable ...
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... tragic chorus , to- gether with a short glance at the other improvements of numbers , stile , & c . necessarily connected with it , gives him the opportunity of going off easily into a subject of near affinity with this , viz . the ...
... tragic chorus , to- gether with a short glance at the other improvements of numbers , stile , & c . necessarily connected with it , gives him the opportunity of going off easily into a subject of near affinity with this , viz . the ...
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... tragic shews . But , 2. To convert , as far as was possible , what was thus a necessary sacrifice to the taste of the multitude into a tolerable entertainment for the better sort , he lays down [ from v . 225 to 240 ] the exactest ...
... tragic shews . But , 2. To convert , as far as was possible , what was thus a necessary sacrifice to the taste of the multitude into a tolerable entertainment for the better sort , he lays down [ from v . 225 to 240 ] the exactest ...
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Page 56 - Natura fieret laudabile carmen an arte Quaesitum est : ego nee Studium sine divite vena Nee rude quid possit video ingenium ; alterius sic 410 Altera poscit opem res et conjurat amice.
Page 76 - That which is now a horse, even with a thought The rack dislimns, and makes it indistinct As water is in water.
Page 31 - Inceptis gravibus plerumque et magna professis purpureus, late qui splendeat, unus et alter 15 assuitur pannus, cum lucus et ara Dianae et properantis aquae per amoenos ambitus agros, aut flumen Rhenum aut pluvius describitur arcus. sed nunc non erat his locus. et fortasse cupressum scis simulare.
Page 33 - Sumite materiam vestris , qui scribitis , aequam Viribus, et versate diu, quid ferre recusent, Quid valeant humeri. Cui lecta potenter erit res , «> Nee facundia deseret hunc, nee lucidus ordo.
Page 51 - Munus et officium, nil scribens ipse, docebo ; Unde parentur opes ; quid alat formetque poetam ; Quid deceat, quid non ; quo virtus, quo ferat error.
Page 34 - Dixeris egregie notum si callida verbum Reddiderit junctura novum. Si forte necesse est Indiciis monstrare recentibus abdita rerum, Fingere cinctutis non exaudita Cethegis 50 Continget, dabiturque licentia sumpta pudenter ; Et nova fictaque nuper habebunt verba fidem si Qraeco fonte cadent, parce detorta.
Page 41 - Trojanum orditur ab ovo ; Semper ad eventum festinat, et in medias res Non secus ac notas auditorem rapit, et, quae Desperat tractata nitescere posse, relinquit, 150 Atque ita mentitur, sic veris falsa remiscet, Primo ne medium, medio ne discrepet imum.
Page 35 - Ut silvae foliis pronos mutantur in annos, Prima cadunt ; ita verborum vetus interit aetas, Et juvenum ritu florent modo nata vigentque.
Page 295 - Dicitur Afrani toga convenisse Menandro ; Plautus ad exemplar Siculi properare Epicharmi ; Vincere Caecilius gravitate, Terentius arte. Hos ediscit, et hos arto stipata theatro Spectat Roma potens ; habet hos numeratque poetas Ad nostrum tempus, Livi scriptoris ab aevo.
Page 46 - Carmine qui tragico vilem certavit ob hircum, 220 Mox etiam agrestes Satyros nudavit et asper Incolumi gravitate jocum tentavit eo, quod Illecebris erat et grata novitate morandus Spectator functusque sacris et potus et exlex.