Dramatic EssaysJ.M. Dent & sons, Limited, 1912 - 299 sivua |
Kirjan sisältä
Tulokset 1 - 5 kokonaismäärästä 45
Sivu 9
... prove , either that the ancients were superior to the moderns , or the last age of this of ours . 66 Eugenius was somewhat surprised , when he heard Crites . make choice of that subject . For ought I see , " said he , " I have ...
... prove , either that the ancients were superior to the moderns , or the last age of this of ours . 66 Eugenius was somewhat surprised , when he heard Crites . make choice of that subject . For ought I see , " said he , " I have ...
Sivu 10
... prove his own advantages , or to discover the failings of his adversary . He had no sooner said this , but all desired the favour of him to give the definition of a play ; and they were the more importu- nate , because neither Aristotle ...
... prove his own advantages , or to discover the failings of his adversary . He had no sooner said this , but all desired the favour of him to give the definition of a play ; and they were the more importu- nate , because neither Aristotle ...
Sivu 15
... prove that they wrought more perfect images of human life than we ; which seeing in your discourse you have avoided to make good , it shall now be my .task to show you some part of their defects , and some few excellencies of the ...
... prove that they wrought more perfect images of human life than we ; which seeing in your discourse you have avoided to make good , it shall now be my .task to show you some part of their defects , and some few excellencies of the ...
Sivu 30
... prove that there is no error in choosing a subject which requires this sort of narrations ; in the ill management of them , there may . But I find I have been too long in this discourse , since the French have many other excellencies ...
... prove that there is no error in choosing a subject which requires this sort of narrations ; in the ill management of them , there may . But I find I have been too long in this discourse , since the French have many other excellencies ...
Sivu 31
... prove a more prevail- ing argument than all others which are used to destroy it , and therefore I am only troubled when great and judicious poets , and those who are acknowledged such , have writ or spoke against it : as for others ...
... prove a more prevail- ing argument than all others which are used to destroy it , and therefore I am only troubled when great and judicious poets , and those who are acknowledged such , have writ or spoke against it : as for others ...
Muita painoksia - Näytä kaikki
Yleiset termit ja lausekkeet
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