Dramatic EssaysJ.M. Dent & sons, Limited, 1912 - 299 sivua |
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Sivu 9
... Italian , French , and Spanish plays , I can make it evident , that those who now write surpass them ; and that the drama is wholly ours . " All of them were thus far of Eugenius his opinion , that the sweetness of English verse was ...
... Italian , French , and Spanish plays , I can make it evident , that those who now write surpass them ; and that the drama is wholly ours . " All of them were thus far of Eugenius his opinion , that the sweetness of English verse was ...
Sivu 17
... Italians in many of theirs follow them , when I condemn the ancients , I declare it is not altogether because they have not five acts to every play , but because they have not confined themselves to one certain number : it is building ...
... Italians in many of theirs follow them , when I condemn the ancients , I declare it is not altogether because they have not five acts to every play , but because they have not confined themselves to one certain number : it is building ...
Sivu 18
... Italian mode of houses , —you see through them all at once : the characters are indeed the imitation of nature , but so narrow , as if they had imitated only an eye or an hand , and did not dare to venture on the lines of a face , or ...
... Italian mode of houses , —you see through them all at once : the characters are indeed the imitation of nature , but so narrow , as if they had imitated only an eye or an hand , and did not dare to venture on the lines of a face , or ...
Sivu 51
... Italy , new languages were introduced , and barbarously mingled with the Latin , of which the Italian , Spanish , French , and ours ( made out of them and the Teutonic ) are dialects , a new way of poesy was practised ; new , I say , in ...
... Italy , new languages were introduced , and barbarously mingled with the Latin , of which the Italian , Spanish , French , and ours ( made out of them and the Teutonic ) are dialects , a new way of poesy was practised ; new , I say , in ...
Sivu 52
... Italian , or Germans , acknowledge at all , or very rarely , any such kind of poesy as blank verse amongst them . There- fore , at most ' tis but a poetic prose , a sermo pedestris ; and as such , most fit for comedies , where I ...
... Italian , or Germans , acknowledge at all , or very rarely , any such kind of poesy as blank verse amongst them . There- fore , at most ' tis but a poetic prose , a sermo pedestris ; and as such , most fit for comedies , where I ...
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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