Literary Criticism of Seventeenth-century EnglandEdward W. Tayler |
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... reason ; and not only found out the way not to erre , but the short way we should take , not to erre . Many things in Euripides hath Aristophanes wittily repre- hended ; not out of Art , but out of Truth . For , Euripides is some- times ...
... reason ; and not only found out the way not to erre , but the short way we should take , not to erre . Many things in Euripides hath Aristophanes wittily repre- hended ; not out of Art , but out of Truth . For , Euripides is some- times ...
Page 159
... reason , they shew that either they want reason to commend , or their subject to bee commended ; like ill ranging Spaniells they spring figures , and ravished with their extravagant fancies , pursue them in long excursions , neg ...
... reason , they shew that either they want reason to commend , or their subject to bee commended ; like ill ranging Spaniells they spring figures , and ravished with their extravagant fancies , pursue them in long excursions , neg ...
Page 346
... Reason of the Success is , in my Opinion , this , that Shakespear and Fletcher have written to the Genius of the Age and Nation in which they liv'd : For tho ' Nature , as he objects , is the same in all Places , and Reason too the same ...
... Reason of the Success is , in my Opinion , this , that Shakespear and Fletcher have written to the Genius of the Age and Nation in which they liv'd : For tho ' Nature , as he objects , is the same in all Places , and Reason too the same ...
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