Dramatic EssaysJ.M. Dent & sons, Limited, 1912 - 299 sivua |
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Sivu 7
... expression ; his poetry neither has wit in it , nor seems to have it ; like him in Martial : 66 " " Pauper videri Cinna vult , et est pauper . " He affects plainness , to cover his want of imagination : when he writes the serious way ...
... expression ; his poetry neither has wit in it , nor seems to have it ; like him in Martial : 66 " " Pauper videri Cinna vult , et est pauper . " He affects plainness , to cover his want of imagination : when he writes the serious way ...
Sivu 9
... expression , and to make our rhyme so properly a part of the verse , that it should never mislead the sense , but itself be led and governed by it , · 6. Eugenius was going to continue this discourse , Dramatic Poesy 9.
... expression , and to make our rhyme so properly a part of the verse , that it should never mislead the sense , but itself be led and governed by it , · 6. Eugenius was going to continue this discourse , Dramatic Poesy 9.
Sivu 20
... expression or words than those in which he finds it . When Phædria , in the Eunuch , had a command from his mistress to be absent two days , and , encouraging himself to go through with it , said , Tandem ego non illa caream , si sit ...
... expression or words than those in which he finds it . When Phædria , in the Eunuch , had a command from his mistress to be absent two days , and , encouraging himself to go through with it , said , Tandem ego non illa caream , si sit ...
Sivu 49
... expressing the greatest thoughts naturally , and the lowest it cannot with any grace : for what is more unbefitting the majesty of verse , than to call a servant , or bid a door be shut in rhyme ? and yet you are often forced on this ...
... expressing the greatest thoughts naturally , and the lowest it cannot with any grace : for what is more unbefitting the majesty of verse , than to call a servant , or bid a door be shut in rhyme ? and yet you are often forced on this ...
Sivu 64
... expressing such an ordinary thing as shutting a door . Here he manifestly mistakes ; for I spoke not of the placing , but of the choice of words ; for which I quoted that aphorism of Julius Cæsar : Delectus verborum est origo eloquentiæ ...
... expressing such an ordinary thing as shutting a door . Here he manifestly mistakes ; for I spoke not of the placing , but of the choice of words ; for which I quoted that aphorism of Julius Cæsar : Delectus verborum est origo eloquentiæ ...
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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