Author : Tobias George Smollett
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780365472544
Total Pages : 602 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (725 download)
Book Synopsis The Critical Review, Or Annals of Literature, 1801, Vol. 31 (Classic Reprint) by : Tobias George Smollett
Download or read book The Critical Review, Or Annals of Literature, 1801, Vol. 31 (Classic Reprint) written by Tobias George Smollett and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-24 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Critical Review, or Annals of Literature, 1801, Vol. 31 AS we have given our Opinion upon the talents of the edi tor With sufficient explicitness in dur preliminary remarks on the Hecaba in our journal for November last, we shall proceed without ceremony or preamble to some animadversions on his Grater. Bespeaking at thmme time the patient indulgence of our readers, if the greater length and superior importance of this play should protract our remarks beyond our former limits; and premising also that this single tragedy of Euripides exhibits probably more specimens of deviation from. The purity of iambic verse (in which anomalies we mean to comprehend every dactyl, anapaest, and tribrachys, except the dactyl and tribrachys in the tbt'rd foot, a variation too frequent 'to be reckoned an anemaly) than all the extant tragedies pf Eschylus, or Sophocles', put toge ther; an observation which may possibly be new to mm of our, readers, and must be deemed a singularity by all. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.