OF

POLITE LITERATURE.

In RIVE VOLUMES.

VOL. III.

LONDON,
Printed for G. Burner, at Bishop Burnet's Head,

in the Strand. MDCCLXIV.

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NEW

ANECDOTES

OF

POLITE LITERATURE,

SECT. I.

Of TRAGEDY. HERE is no species of poetry that has occasioned fo

many

criticisms, and given rise to such a multitude of rules, as tragedy ; nor any point in literature about which opinions are more divided. This has been the case from Aristotle to Voltaire ; and amongst such an infinity of critics, few have done any real service to the subject of their Vol. III.

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