O F POLITE LITERATURE. In FIVE VOLUME S. VOL. III. LONDON, Printed for G. BURNET, at Bishop Burnet's Head, ANECDOTES OF POLITE LITERATURE. T SECT. I. Of TRAGEDY. HERE is no fpecies of poetry that has occafioned fo many criticifms, and given rife to fuch a multitude of rules, as tragedy; nor any point in literature about which opinions are more divided. This has been the cafe from Ariftotle to Voltaire; and amongst fuch an infinity of critics, few have done any real fervice to the fubject of their enqui VOL. III. B |
