Dramatic EssaysJ.M. Dent & sons, Limited, 1912 - 299 sivua |
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... confess I find many things in this Discourse which I do not now approve ; my judgment being not a little altered since the writing of it ; but whether for the better or the worse , I know not : neither indeed is it much material , in an ...
... confess I find many things in this Discourse which I do not now approve ; my judgment being not a little altered since the writing of it ; but whether for the better or the worse , I know not : neither indeed is it much material , in an ...
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... confess I have no greater reason , in addressing this Essay to your lordship , than that it might awaken in you the desire of writing something , in whatever kind it be , which might be an honour to our age and country . And methinks it ...
... confess I have no greater reason , in addressing this Essay to your lordship , than that it might awaken in you the desire of writing something , in whatever kind it be , which might be an honour to our age and country . And methinks it ...
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... confessed he had a rude notion of it ; indeed , rather a description than a definition ; but which served to guide him in his private thoughts , when he was to make a judgment of what others writ : that he con- ceived a play ought to be ...
... confessed he had a rude notion of it ; indeed , rather a description than a definition ; but which served to guide him in his private thoughts , when he was to make a judgment of what others writ : that he con- ceived a play ought to be ...
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... confess it is so lively , that from thence much light has been derived to the forming it more perfectly into acts and scenes : but what poet first limited to five the number of the acts , I know not ; only we see it so firmly ...
... confess it is so lively , that from thence much light has been derived to the forming it more perfectly into acts and scenes : but what poet first limited to five the number of the acts , I know not ; only we see it so firmly ...
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... confession of the French poets , that the unity of action is sufficiently preserved , if all the imperfect actions of ... confess their verses are to me the coldest I have ever read . Neither , indeed , is it possible for them , in the ...
... confession of the French poets , that the unity of action is sufficiently preserved , if all the imperfect actions of ... confess their verses are to me the coldest I have ever read . Neither , indeed , is it possible for them , in the ...
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