Dramatic EssaysJ.M. Dent & sons, Limited, 1912 - 299 sivua |
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... perfection ; and no wonder , since every age has a kind of universal genius , which inclines those that live in it to some particular studies : the work then , being pushed on by many hands , must of necessity go forward . " Is it not ...
... perfection ; and no wonder , since every age has a kind of universal genius , which inclines those that live in it to some particular studies : the work then , being pushed on by many hands , must of necessity go forward . " Is it not ...
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... perfection , but never acquired any that was new . We draw not therefore after their lines , but those of nature ; and having the life before us , besides the experience of all they knew , it is no wonder if we hit some airs and ...
... perfection , but never acquired any that was new . We draw not therefore after their lines , but those of nature ; and having the life before us , besides the experience of all they knew , it is no wonder if we hit some airs and ...
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... perfection in writing ; I can only grant they have altered the mode of it . Homer described his heroes men of great appetities , lovers of beef broiled upon the coals , and good fellows ; contrary to the practice of the French Romances ...
... perfection in writing ; I can only grant they have altered the mode of it . Homer described his heroes men of great appetities , lovers of beef broiled upon the coals , and good fellows ; contrary to the practice of the French Romances ...
Sivu 32
... perfection higher where it is , but are not sufficient to give it where it is not : they are indeed the beauties of a statue , but not of a man , because not animated with the soul of poesy , which is imitation of humour and passions ...
... perfection higher where it is , but are not sufficient to give it where it is not : they are indeed the beauties of a statue , but not of a man , because not animated with the soul of poesy , which is imitation of humour and passions ...
Sivu 35
... perfection than the French poets can reasonably hope to reach . " There is another part of Lisideius his discourse , in which he rather excused our neighbours than commended them ; that is , for aiming only to make one person ...
... perfection than the French poets can reasonably hope to reach . " There is another part of Lisideius his discourse , in which he rather excused our neighbours than commended them ; that is , for aiming only to make one person ...
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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