Dramatic EssaysJ.M. Dent & sons, Limited, 1912 - 299 sivua |
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Sivu viii
... acknowledge the substantial justice of Collier's reproaches . " " In 1670 Dryden was made poet - laureate and historio- grapher - royal ; and in 1681 opened a new and most important chapter in his career by the publication of the first ...
... acknowledge the substantial justice of Collier's reproaches . " " In 1670 Dryden was made poet - laureate and historio- grapher - royal ; and in 1681 opened a new and most important chapter in his career by the publication of the first ...
Sivu xii
... acknowledge , is left in some uncertainty ; for while superstitious veneration for classical antiquity and the current admiration of the French drama are boldly challenged , and " " 1 " Defence , " prefixed to second edition of The ...
... acknowledge , is left in some uncertainty ; for while superstitious veneration for classical antiquity and the current admiration of the French drama are boldly challenged , and " " 1 " Defence , " prefixed to second edition of The ...
Sivu 9
... acknowledge how much our poesy is improved by the happiness of some writers yet living ; who first taught us to mould our thoughts into easy and significant words , to retrench the superfluities of expression , and to make our rhyme so ...
... acknowledge how much our poesy is improved by the happiness of some writers yet living ; who first taught us to mould our thoughts into easy and significant words , to retrench the superfluities of expression , and to make our rhyme so ...
Sivu 14
... acknowledge them to have written better . Questionless we are deprived of a great stock of wit in the loss of Menander among the Greek poets , and of Cæcilius , Afranius , and Varius , among the Romans ; we may guess at Menander's ...
... acknowledge them to have written better . Questionless we are deprived of a great stock of wit in the loss of Menander among the Greek poets , and of Cæcilius , Afranius , and Varius , among the Romans ; we may guess at Menander's ...
Sivu 15
... acknowledge that , to overcome them , we must make use of the advantages we have received from them : but to these assistances we have joined our own industry ; for , had we sat down with a dull imitation of them , we might then have ...
... acknowledge that , to overcome them , we must make use of the advantages we have received from them : but to these assistances we have joined our own industry ; for , had we sat down with a dull imitation of them , we might then have ...
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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