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Page 152
... measure and feet ; for the tragic and comic verfe may be both iambics , and both admit of spondees ; yet there is a great deal of difference between them : the tragic admits of the spondee only in the firft , third , and fifth foot ...
... measure and feet ; for the tragic and comic verfe may be both iambics , and both admit of spondees ; yet there is a great deal of difference between them : the tragic admits of the spondee only in the firft , third , and fifth foot ...
Page 169
... measure of verfe , in their imitation , nor of thofe who lofe fight of their original . He has already given tragic poets two ways of rendering fubjects that have been handled , which he prefers to invented ones : the first is , not to ...
... measure of verfe , in their imitation , nor of thofe who lofe fight of their original . He has already given tragic poets two ways of rendering fubjects that have been handled , which he prefers to invented ones : the first is , not to ...
Page 189
... measure of a play . Never cular , which that of the Latins and ours do not do . By dividing tragedy into five acts , the Latin and modern poets divide it into five like parts , which is vicious . This matter is difcourfed of at large in ...
... measure of a play . Never cular , which that of the Latins and ours do not do . By dividing tragedy into five acts , the Latin and modern poets divide it into five like parts , which is vicious . This matter is difcourfed of at large in ...
Page 196
... measure of the verse was accommodated to the music ; in which measure they foon imitated the dignity and majesty of the oracles . 1 Orichalco vincta . ] ' Opixannov , Orichalk , a fort of mountain copper , what we now - a - days call ...
... measure of the verse was accommodated to the music ; in which measure they foon imitated the dignity and majesty of the oracles . 1 Orichalco vincta . ] ' Opixannov , Orichalk , a fort of mountain copper , what we now - a - days call ...
Page 212
... measuring this verse into fix feet , Adeftiam be prae | pes et || tui || tenax , it it measured into three , Adeft ' iambe praepes et tui tenax . || Jugatis And often cenfures what the rabble likes . Jugatis per 212 DE ARTE POETICA .
... measuring this verse into fix feet , Adeftiam be prae | pes et || tui || tenax , it it measured into three , Adeft ' iambe praepes et tui tenax . || Jugatis And often cenfures what the rabble likes . Jugatis per 212 DE ARTE POETICA .
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Achilles actor againſt alfo alſo anſwer antient Ariftotle art of poetry Attellane Auguftus becauſe beſt called Choerilus chorus Cicero comedy cyclic poet Cyclop defign Earl of ROSCOMMON Empedocles Ennius epic epic poetry Euripides ev'ry expreffions exprefs facred facundia faid fame fatire fatyric faults fays fecond fenfe fhall fhew fhould fince fing firft firſt fome fong foon foul fpeaks ftile ftill ftory fubject fuch greateſt Greeks hero himſelf Homer Horace Horace's iambic imitate inftruct invented king laſt meaſure Medea moft moſt mufe mufic muft muſt numbers nunc obferved orichalco paffage paffions Peleus perfon Pifo Plautus play pleaſe poem poets praiſe prefent quae Quam quid Quintilian quod raiſe reafon reprefent Romans Rome rules ſays ſcene Silenus Sophocles ſpeak ſtage Telephus thefe themſelves theſe things thofe thoſe tibi tragedy tragic tranflated Ulyffes uſe verfe verfus verſe Virgil whofe whoſe words write