Dramatic EssaysJ.M. Dent & sons, Limited, 1912 - 299 sivua |
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Sivu ix
... judgment were often rapid and funda- mental . He had once more trimmed his political sails to take advan- tage of the accession of James II . But the revolution of 1688 swept away all hopes he may have cherished of recognition and ...
... judgment were often rapid and funda- mental . He had once more trimmed his political sails to take advan- tage of the accession of James II . But the revolution of 1688 swept away all hopes he may have cherished of recognition and ...
Sivu x
... judgment . Here again the power and weight of Dryden's genius gave him an easy supremacy . Johnson called him " the Father of English criticism , " and we need scarcely challenge the title . " " It was undoubtedly in the dramatic field ...
... judgment . Here again the power and weight of Dryden's genius gave him an easy supremacy . Johnson called him " the Father of English criticism , " and we need scarcely challenge the title . " " It was undoubtedly in the dramatic field ...
Sivu xii
... judgment . You see it is a dialogue , " he afterwards explained , " sustained by persons of several opinions , all of them left doubtful , to be determined by readers in general . ' " 1 Hence the employment of the controversial method ...
... judgment . You see it is a dialogue , " he afterwards explained , " sustained by persons of several opinions , all of them left doubtful , to be determined by readers in general . ' " 1 Hence the employment of the controversial method ...
Sivu xiii
... judgment upon the ques- tions raised in it . It has therefore to be supplemented by his prefaces and dedications to various plays , in studying which we have an ample opportunity of following the always interesting and sometimes rather ...
... judgment upon the ques- tions raised in it . It has therefore to be supplemented by his prefaces and dedications to various plays , in studying which we have an ample opportunity of following the always interesting and sometimes rather ...
Sivu xvi
... judgment , and was habitually careless about details . He was also emphatically a man of his time ; as his views of literature were circumscribed by the limitations and prejudices of that time , they are now in many cases quite obsolete ...
... judgment , and was habitually careless about details . He was also emphatically a man of his time ; as his views of literature were circumscribed by the limitations and prejudices of that time , they are now in many cases quite obsolete ...
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