Dramatic EssaysJ.M. Dent & sons, Limited, 1912 - 299 sivua |
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Sivu 193
... Dido well and naturally in the violence of her passions , yet he must yield in that to the Myrrha , the Byblis , the Althaea , of Ovid ; for , as great an admirer of him as I am , I must acknowledge that if I see not more of their souls ...
... Dido well and naturally in the violence of her passions , yet he must yield in that to the Myrrha , the Byblis , the Althaea , of Ovid ; for , as great an admirer of him as I am , I must acknowledge that if I see not more of their souls ...
Sivu 205
... Dido for Æneas in the most lively and most natural colours that are imaginable . Homer was ambitious enough of moving pity , for he has attempted twice on the same subject of Hector's death ; first , when Priam and Hecuba beheld his ...
... Dido for Æneas in the most lively and most natural colours that are imaginable . Homer was ambitious enough of moving pity , for he has attempted twice on the same subject of Hector's death ; first , when Priam and Hecuba beheld his ...
Sivu 221
... Dido , calls him expressly by the name of king . Our poet , who all this while had Augustus in his eye , had no desire he should seem to succeed by any right of inheritance derived from Julius Cæsar ( such a title being but one degree ...
... Dido , calls him expressly by the name of king . Our poet , who all this while had Augustus in his eye , had no desire he should seem to succeed by any right of inheritance derived from Julius Cæsar ( such a title being but one degree ...
Sivu 227
... Dido heard it . That he had been so affectionate a husband was no ill argument to the coming dowager , that he might prove as kind to her . Virgil has a thousand secret beauties , though I have not leisure to remark them . Segrais , on ...
... Dido heard it . That he had been so affectionate a husband was no ill argument to the coming dowager , that he might prove as kind to her . Virgil has a thousand secret beauties , though I have not leisure to remark them . Segrais , on ...
Sivu 229
... will make a numerous party against him , for being false to love in forsaking Dido . And I cannot much blame them ; for , to say the truth , it is an ill precedent for their gallants to follow . Yet , if I can bring Virgil and the Æneid ...
... will make a numerous party against him , for being false to love in forsaking Dido . And I cannot much blame them ; for , to say the truth , it is an ill precedent for their gallants to follow . Yet , if I can bring Virgil and the Æneid ...
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action admiration Æneas Æneid Æneis amongst ancients argument Aristotle audience Augustus beauties Ben Jonson better betwixt blank verse Boccace Cæsar Catiline character Chaucer comedy commend compass confess Crites critics defend Dido discourse Dramatic Poesy Dryden Duke of Lerma endeavoured English epic Essay Eugenius Euripides excellent expression fancy father faults favour Fletcher French genius Georgics give Grecian Greek hero Homer honour Horace humour Iliad imagination imitation invention Italian JOHN DRYDEN Jonson judge judgment Julius Cæsar kind language Latin least Lisideius lived Lord Lordship Lucretius manners modern nature never noble numbers observed opinion Ovid passions perfection persons Pindaric pleased plot poem poet poetical preface prose reader reason rhyme Roman satire scene Segrais Sejanus sense Shakspeare Silent Woman Sophocles speak stage suppose things thought Tis true tragedy translation Turnus Virgil virtue words writ write