Dramatic EssaysJ.M. Dent & sons, Limited, 1912 - 299 sivua |
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... Latin , and he borrowed boldly from them : there is scarce a poet or historian among the Roman authors of those times whom he has not translated in Sejanus and Catiline . But he has done his robberies so openly , that one may see he ...
... Latin , and he borrowed boldly from them : there is scarce a poet or historian among the Roman authors of those times whom he has not translated in Sejanus and Catiline . But he has done his robberies so openly , that one may see he ...
Sivu 42
... Latin as he found them : wherein , though he learnedly followed their language , he did not enough comply with the idiom of ours . If I would compare him with Shakspeare , I must acknow- ledge him the more correct poet , but Shakspeare ...
... Latin as he found them : wherein , though he learnedly followed their language , he did not enough comply with the idiom of ours . If I would compare him with Shakspeare , I must acknow- ledge him the more correct poet , but Shakspeare ...
Sivu 49
... Latin verse was as great a confinement to the imagination of those poets as rhyme to ours ; and yet you find Ovid saying too much on every sub- ject . Nescivit ( says Seneca ) quod bene cessit relinquere : of which he gives you one ...
... Latin verse was as great a confinement to the imagination of those poets as rhyme to ours ; and yet you find Ovid saying too much on every sub- ject . Nescivit ( says Seneca ) quod bene cessit relinquere : of which he gives you one ...
Sivu 51
... Latin consisted in quantity of words , and a determinate number of feet . But when , by the inunda- tion of the Goths and Vandals into Italy , new languages were introduced , and barbarously mingled with the Latin , of which the Italian ...
... Latin consisted in quantity of words , and a determinate number of feet . But when , by the inunda- tion of the Goths and Vandals into Italy , new languages were introduced , and barbarously mingled with the Latin , of which the Italian ...
Sivu 52
... Latin . No man is tied in modern poesy to observe any farther rule in the feet of his verse , but that they be dissyllables ; whether Spondee , Trochee , or Iambic , it matters not ; only he is obliged to rhyme : neither do the Spanish ...
... Latin . No man is tied in modern poesy to observe any farther rule in the feet of his verse , but that they be dissyllables ; whether Spondee , Trochee , or Iambic , it matters not ; only he is obliged to rhyme : neither do the Spanish ...
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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