Dramatic EssaysJ.M. Dent & sons, Limited, 1912 - 299 sivua |
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Sivu x
... present volume will now be in a position to judge for himself . To read his essays profitably , however , it is essential that we should place ourselves at the point of view of the time when they were written . It must be remembered ...
... present volume will now be in a position to judge for himself . To read his essays profitably , however , it is essential that we should place ourselves at the point of view of the time when they were written . It must be remembered ...
Sivu xi
... present essay , it will be noted , the discussion is thrown into the form of a dialogue— a favourite device since the revival of learning , when all over Europe men had begun to imitate Plato and Cicero . The critical value of this form ...
... present essay , it will be noted , the discussion is thrown into the form of a dialogue— a favourite device since the revival of learning , when all over Europe men had begun to imitate Plato and Cicero . The critical value of this form ...
Sivu 25
... present you the play and the farce together ; and our stages still retain somewhat of the original civility of the Red Bull : Atque ursum et pugiles media inter carmina poscunt . The end of tragedies or serious plays , says Aristotle ...
... present you the play and the farce together ; and our stages still retain somewhat of the original civility of the Red Bull : Atque ursum et pugiles media inter carmina poscunt . The end of tragedies or serious plays , says Aristotle ...
Sivu 29
... present no part of the action on the stage ; every alteration or crossing of a design , every new - sprung passion , and turn of it , is a part of the action , and much the noblest , except we conceive nothing to be action till the ...
... present no part of the action on the stage ; every alteration or crossing of a design , every new - sprung passion , and turn of it , is a part of the action , and much the noblest , except we conceive nothing to be action till the ...
Sivu 40
... present to him , and he drew them , not laboriously , but luckily ; when he describes anything , you more than see it , you feel it too . Those who accuse him to have wanted learning , give him the greater commendation : he was ...
... present to him , and he drew them , not laboriously , but luckily ; when he describes anything , you more than see it , you feel it too . Those who accuse him to have wanted learning , give him the greater commendation : he was ...
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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