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... satyrs themselves . This being premised , he considers , as was observed , what belongs in common to this with the regular tra- gedy [ from v . 251 to 275 ] the laws and use of the a 260 Syllaba longa brevi subjecta , vocatur lambus , D ...
... satyrs themselves . This being premised , he considers , as was observed , what belongs in common to this with the regular tra- gedy [ from v . 251 to 275 ] the laws and use of the a 260 Syllaba longa brevi subjecta , vocatur lambus , D ...
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... satyr , and Burlesque upon Euripides . Some part of it is particularly levelled against his Telephus : whence we may cer- tainly learn the objections , that were made to it . Yet the amount of them is only this , " That he had " drawn ...
... satyr , and Burlesque upon Euripides . Some part of it is particularly levelled against his Telephus : whence we may cer- tainly learn the objections , that were made to it . Yet the amount of them is only this , " That he had " drawn ...
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... which , however proper for satyr , or for farcical co- medy , are of too fantastic and whimsical a nature to be admitted into tragedy ; of which Aristotle must there be chiefly understood to speak , and to which ART OF POETRY . 123.
... which , however proper for satyr , or for farcical co- medy , are of too fantastic and whimsical a nature to be admitted into tragedy ; of which Aristotle must there be chiefly understood to speak , and to which ART OF POETRY . 123.
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... satyrs , and the Greek tragedy ( all which come naturally in his way , and are very artfully connected ) he chuses to deduce the account of each from its ruder and less polished original ; tracing it through its several successive ...
... satyrs , and the Greek tragedy ( all which come naturally in his way , and are very artfully connected ) he chuses to deduce the account of each from its ruder and less polished original ; tracing it through its several successive ...
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... satyrs , had been abrupt and inartificial ; but from tragedy , the transition is easy , the satyrs being a species of the tragic drama . That it was so accounted may be seen from the following passage in Ovid , For to have Est et in ...
... satyrs , had been abrupt and inartificial ; but from tragedy , the transition is easy , the satyrs being a species of the tragic drama . That it was so accounted may be seen from the following passage in Ovid , For to have Est et in ...
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