原文 (英语)

292.——LET IT TO VIRTUE PROVE A GUIDE AND FRIEND.] Ille bonis saveatque, &c. "The Chorus," says the poet, "is to take the side of the good and virtuous, i. e. is always to sustain a moral character. But this will need some explanation and restriction. To conceive aright of its office, we must suppose the _Chorus _to be a number of persons, by some probable cause assembled together, as witnesses and spectators of the great action of the drama. Such persons, as they cannot be wh