...God would have chang'd his doom; Not forc'd him wander, but confin'd him home, Si sic omnia dmsset ! This is wit in all languages: it is. like mercury,...in his own could have writ with our advantages, no inari but must have yielded to him ; and therefore I am confident the MEDEA is none of his : for, though...

...was Ovid ; he had a way of writing so fit to stir up a pleasing admiration and concernment, which arc the objects of a tragedy, and to shew the various...in his own could have writ with our advantages, no ON DRAMATICS FOF.SY. 6$ man but must have yielded to him ; and therefore I am confident the MEDEA is...

...objects of a tragedy, and to shew the various movements of a soul combating betwixt two dif' ferent passions, that, had he lived in our age, or in his own could have writ with our advantages, no ttian but must have yielded to him ; and therefore I am confident the MEDEA is none of his : for, though...

...bells backward, I am all on fire ; Not all the buckets in a country quire Shall quench mv tage — it is so soft and gentle, that it does not shock us...he himself concludes to be suitable to a tragedy, — Omne genus scripti gravitate Tragccdia vincit,-^yet it moves not my soul enough to judge that he,...

...the bells backward, I am all on fire;' Not all the buckets in a country quire Shall quench my rage— it is so soft and gentle, that it does not shock us...himself concludes to be suitable to a tragedy,— Omne genus scripti gravitate Tragcedia vincit,—yet it moves not my soul enough to judge that he,...

...fit to stir up a pleasing admiration and concernment, which are the objects of a tragedy, and to show the various movements of a soul combating betwixt...he himself concludes to be suitable to a tragedy, — Omne genus gcriptt gravitate Tragadia vindt, — yet it moves not my soul enough to judge that...

...concernment, which are the ohjects of a tragedy, and to show the various movements of a soul comhating hetwixt two different passions, that had he lived in our age, or in his own could have writ wtth our advantages, no man hut must have yielded to him ; and therefore I am confident the ' Medea...

...the ohjects of a tragedy, and to show the various movements of a soul comhating hetwixt twodifferent passions, that had he lived in our age, or in his own could have writ with our advantages, no man hut must havo yielded to him ; and therefore I am confident the " Medea " is none of his ; for though...

...fit to stir up a pleasing admiration and concernment, which are the objects of tragedy, and to show the various movements of a soul combating betwixt...advantages, no man but must have yielded to him.' It is true that we are deprived of the best and more direct means of estimating Ovid's dramatic faculty...

...fit to stir up a pleasing admiration and concernment, which are the objects of a tragedy, and to show the various movements of a soul combating betwixt...for the gravity and sententiousness of it, which he * The insurrection in Scotland, in Charles i.'s time, inflamed Cleveland as much as the nation. We...