 | 1793 - 310 pages
...of Racine in his incomparable Athalia, will be very like the Ion of Euripides. lioilc.au obferves, that a new and extraordinary thought is by no means: a thought which no pcsJbn ever conceived before, or could poffibly conceive ; on the contrary, it is fuch a thought as... | |
 | British essayists - 1802 - 330 pages
...situation; that is, the loas of Racine in his incomparable Athalia, will be very like the Ion of Euripides. Boileau observes, that a new and extraordinary thought...first in any person's mind upon the same occasion: and it is a maxim of Pope that whatever is very good sense must have been common sense at all times.... | |
 | 1819 - 332 pages
...; that is, the loas of Racine in his incomparable Athalia, will be very like the Ion of Euripides. Boileau observes, that a new and extraordinary thought...first in any person's mind upon the same occasion : and it is a maxim of Pope that whatever is very good sense must have been common sense at all times.... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - 1823 - 650 pages
...like the Ion of Euripides. • Boileau observes, that a new and extraordinary thought is by no nma-ns a thought which no person ever conceived before, or...first in any person's mind upon the same occasion : and it is a maxim of Pope that whatever is very good sense must have been common sense at all times.... | |
 | John Hawkesworth - 1823 - 302 pages
...situation; that is, the loas of Itacine in his incomparable Athalia, will be very like the Ion of Euripides. Boileau observes, that a new and extraordinary thought...on the contrary, it is such a thought as must have occured to every man in the like case, and have been one of the first in any person's mind upon the... | |
 | William Mathews (novelist.) - 1854 - 328 pages
...consistency to letters ?" Mr Langton here remarked — " Boileau observes that a new and extraordinarythought is by no means a thought which no person ever conceived...thought as must have occurred to every man in the bike case, and have been one of the first in any person's mind upon the same occasion : and it is a... | |
 | Alexander Frederick Bruce Clark - 1925 - 570 pages
...criticism of " nature ". In his essay " On a necessary lack of originality in poets ", he says : " Boileau observes that a new and extraordinary thought...first in any person's mind upon the same occasion, " 3 and in that" On simplicity of taste " : " Among ourselves no writer has made so happy and judicious... | |
 | Alexander Frederick Bruce Clark - 1925 - 566 pages
...criticism of " nature ". In his essay " On a necessary lack of originality in poets ", he says : " Boileau observes that a new and extraordinary thought...possibly conceive ; on the contrary, it is such a thaugkLas must haye occurred to every man in the like case and have been one of the first in any person's... | |
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Dido's execrations; and a Jew will nearly resemble a Grecian, when placed almost in the same situation; that is, the loas of Racine in his incomparable Athalia, will be very like the Ion of Euripides. Boileau observes, that a new and extraordinary thought... 