Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature

book very much read,--La Harpe's _Cours de Littérature_. It contains

many acute remarks on the French Theatre; but whoever should think to learn the Greeks from it must be very ill advised: the author was as deficient in a solid knowledge of their literature as in a sense for appreciating it. Voltaire, also, often speaks most unwarrantably on this subject: he elevates or lowers them...