Dramatic EssaysJ.M. Dent & sons, Limited, 1912 - 299 sivua |
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... Jonson " in order only that they may " throw dirt on the writers of this age . " This last particular suggests an interesting point in connection with Dryden's critical position . In the Battle of the Books he is so far a modern that ...
... Jonson " in order only that they may " throw dirt on the writers of this age . " This last particular suggests an interesting point in connection with Dryden's critical position . In the Battle of the Books he is so far a modern that ...
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... Jonson has observed in his Discoveries ; but they must be all subservient to the great one , which our language happily expresses in the name of under - plots : such as in Terence's Eunuch is the difference and reconcilement of Thais ...
... Jonson has observed in his Discoveries ; but they must be all subservient to the great one , which our language happily expresses in the name of under - plots : such as in Terence's Eunuch is the difference and reconcilement of Thais ...
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... Jonson , was willing to give place to them in all things : he was not only a professed imitator of Horace , but a learned plagiary of all the others ; you track him everywhere in their snow : if Horace , Lucan , Petronius Arbiter ...
... Jonson , was willing to give place to them in all things : he was not only a professed imitator of Horace , but a learned plagiary of all the others ; you track him everywhere in their snow : if Horace , Lucan , Petronius Arbiter ...
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... Jonson calls them ) , that before it came upon the stage it was already known to all the audience : and the people , so soon as ever they heard the name of Edipus , knew as well as the poet , that he had killed his father by a mistake ...
... Jonson calls them ) , that before it came upon the stage it was already known to all the audience : and the people , so soon as ever they heard the name of Edipus , knew as well as the poet , that he had killed his father by a mistake ...
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... Jonson ( who were only capable of bringing us to that degree of per- fection which we have ) , were just then leaving the world ; as if in an age of so much horror , wit , and those milder studies of humanity , had no farther business ...
... Jonson ( who were only capable of bringing us to that degree of per- fection which we have ) , were just then leaving the world ; as if in an age of so much horror , wit , and those milder studies of humanity , had no farther business ...
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