 The modern tragedy excels that of Greece and Rome in the intricacy and disposition of the fable; but, what a Christian writer would be ashamed to own, falls infinitely short of it in the moral part of the performance.  Harrison's British Classicks - Page 771786Full view - About this book
 | Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele - 1915 - 710 pages
...therefore that in all the Polite Nations of the World, this Part of the Drama has met with Publick Encouragement The Modern Tragedy excels that of Greece and Rome, in the Intricacy and Disposition of the Fable ; but, what a Christian Writer would be ashamed to own, falls infinitely short... | |
 | Barrett Harper Clark - 1918 - 524 pages
...ornament of our nature. They soften insolence, soothe affliction, and subdue the mind to the dispensations of Providence. It is no wonder, therefore, that in...excels that of Greece and Rome in the intricacy and disposition of the fable; but, what a Christian writer would be ashamed to own, falls infinitely short... | |
 | Barrett Harper Clark - 1918 - 528 pages
...ornament of our nature. They soften insolence, soothe affliction, and subdue the mind to the dispensations of Providence. It is no wonder, therefore, that in...encouragement. The modern tragedy excels that of Greece and Home in the intricacy and disposition of the fable; but, what a Christian writer would be ashamed to... | |
 | Tadeusz Grabowski - 1918 - 628 pages
...str. 5. « The works of the right honorable'Joseph Addison. Vol. II, str. 49. » Tamże, str. 304: »The modern tragedy excels that of Greece and Rome, in the intricacy and disposition of the fable«. « Tamże, str. 310. 8 Tamże, str. 312: »It is, in my opinion, a very... | |
 | Barrett Harper Clark - 1918 - 532 pages
...ornament of our nature. They soften insolence, soothe affliction, and subdue the mind to the dispensations of Providence. It is no wonder, therefore, that in...encouragement. The modern tragedy excels that of Greece and Home in the intricacy and disposition of the fable; but, what a Christian writer would be ashamed to... | |
 | Walter James Graham - 1928 - 440 pages
...ornament of our nature. They soften insolence, soothe affliction, and subdue the mind to the dispensations of providence. It is no wonder therefore that in all...excels that of Greece and Rome, in the intricacy and disposition of the fable: but, what a Christian writer would be ashamed to own, falls infinitely short... | |
 | 1783 - 526 pages
...ornament of our nature. They foftcn i nfolence, (both aHliclion, and fubdue the mind to the difpenfations of providence. It is no wonder therefore that in all...part of the drama has met with public encouragement." MEMOIRS of RACINE. (Continued from page 30.) IT was apparently to avoid a canted with Corncille, that... | |
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