Dramatic EssaysJ.M. Dent & sons, Limited, 1912 - 299 sivua |
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Sivu xi
... advantages and drawbacks of action and narrative ? of rhyme and blank verse ? Such are the topics which recur in Dryden's pages ; and if for most of us to - day they are scarcely living issues , the historical importance , and even the ...
... advantages and drawbacks of action and narrative ? of rhyme and blank verse ? Such are the topics which recur in Dryden's pages ; and if for most of us to - day they are scarcely living issues , the historical importance , and even the ...
Sivu 7
... advantage of education and converse , knows better than the other what a poet should be , but puts it into practice more unluckily than any man ; his style and matter are every where alike : he is the most calm , peaceable writer you ...
... advantage of education and converse , knows better than the other what a poet should be , but puts it into practice more unluckily than any man ; his style and matter are every where alike : he is the most calm , peaceable writer you ...
Sivu 10
... advantages , or to discover the failings of his adversary . He had no sooner said this , but all desired the favour of him to give the definition of a play ; and they were the more importu- nate , because neither Aristotle , nor Horace ...
... advantages , or to discover the failings of his adversary . He had no sooner said this , but all desired the favour of him to give the definition of a play ; and they were the more importu- nate , because neither Aristotle , nor Horace ...
Sivu 15
... 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 lost somewhat of the old perfection , but never acquired any ...
... 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 lost somewhat of the old perfection , but never acquired any ...
Sivu 22
... advantages , no man but must have yielded to him ; and therefore I am confident the Medea is none of his : for , though I esteem it for the gravity and sententiousness of it , which he himself concludes to be suitable to a tragedy ...
... advantages , no man but must have yielded to him ; and therefore I am confident the Medea is none of his : for , though I esteem it for the gravity and sententiousness of it , which he himself concludes to be suitable to a tragedy ...
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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