Dramatic EssaysJ.M. Dent & sons, Limited, 1912 - 299 sivua |
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Sivu vii
... seems for a time to have been employed in some secretarial capacity or clerkship . His first substantial experiment in literature — the " Heroic Stanzas on the Death of Oliver Cromwell " -appeared in 1659. In these bombastic verses ...
... seems for a time to have been employed in some secretarial capacity or clerkship . His first substantial experiment in literature — the " Heroic Stanzas on the Death of Oliver Cromwell " -appeared in 1659. In these bombastic verses ...
Sivu xiii
... seems to be seeking some kind of compromise between the classic and the romantic dramas , advocating adherence to ancient tragedy , yet admit- ting that something of larger compass is required on the English stage , and under the ...
... seems to be seeking some kind of compromise between the classic and the romantic dramas , advocating adherence to ancient tragedy , yet admit- ting that something of larger compass is required on the English stage , and under the ...
Sivu 7
... 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 , the highest flight of his fancy is some miserable ...
... 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 , the highest flight of his fancy is some miserable ...
Sivu 10
... seems more easy to him , than to overcome those whom it is our greatest praise to have imitated well ; for we do not only build upon their foundations , but by their models . Dramatic Poesy had time enough , reckoning from Thespis ( who ...
... seems more easy to him , than to overcome those whom it is our greatest praise to have imitated well ; for we do not only build upon their foundations , but by their models . Dramatic Poesy had time enough , reckoning from Thespis ( who ...
Sivu 29
... seems to fall dead before us ; as a poet in the description of a beautiful garden , or a meadow , will please our imagination more than the place itself can please our sight . When we see death represented , we are convinced it is but ...
... seems to fall dead before us ; as a poet in the description of a beautiful garden , or a meadow , will please our imagination more than the place itself can please our sight . When we see death represented , we are convinced it is but ...
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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