Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches
The epistle begins [to v. 9] with that general and fundamental precept _of preserving an unity in the subject and the disposition of the piece_. This is further explained by defining the use, and fixing the character of _poetic licence_ [from v. 9 to 13] which unskilful writer...
In conclusion of all that has been delivered on the subject of these _satyrs_, it may be amusing to the learned reader to hear a celebrated French critic express himself in the...
5. Act v.This last circumstance puts the widest difference between the two cases. The one shews a perfect distraction of mind, which cannot even bear the consciousness of its crimes: the...
4. PART III.I. [from l. 295 to l. 323] The poet ridicules that false notion, into which the Romans had fallen, that _poetry_ and _possession_ were nearly the same thing: that nothing more w...
3. PART II.Having fixed the distinct limits and provinces of the two species of the drama, the poet enters directly on his subject, and considers, I. [from v. 99 to 119] the properties of...
2. v. 19, 20, should introduce a cypress into a sea-piece, or, according2. Another instance, in which we are misled by an _ambition of attaining to what is right_, is, when, through an excessive fear of committing faults, we disqualify ourselves for...
1. PART I.The epistle begins [to v. 9] with that general and fundamental precept _of preserving an unity in the subject and the disposition of the piece_. This is further explained by def...