Dramatic EssaysJ.M. Dent & sons, Limited, 1912 - 299 sivua |
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... tell , Dryden is here shown at his best , though the satires which followed- " The Medal " and " Mac- Flecknoe " —are scarcely less dexterous and effective . To this period also belong his two great theological poems , which are ...
... tell , Dryden is here shown at his best , though the satires which followed- " The Medal " and " Mac- Flecknoe " —are scarcely less dexterous and effective . To this period also belong his two great theological poems , which are ...
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... tell you , that the unity of place , however it might be practised by them , was never any of their rules : we neither find it in Aristotle , Horace , or any who have written of it , till in our age the French poets first made it a ...
... tell you , that the unity of place , however it might be practised by them , was never any of their rules : we neither find it in Aristotle , Horace , or any who have written of it , till in our age the French poets first made it a ...
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... telling his own story , which the trusty ' squire is ever to perform for him . So in their love- scenes , of which Eugenius spoke last , the ancients were more hearty , were more talkative : they writ love as it was then the mode to ...
... telling his own story , which the trusty ' squire is ever to perform for him . So in their love- scenes , of which Eugenius spoke last , the ancients were more hearty , were more talkative : they writ love as it was then the mode to ...
Sivu 39
... tell us frankly your opinion , whether you do not think all writers , both French and English , ought to give place to him . " " I fear , ” replied Neander , " that in obeying your commands I shall draw some envy on myself . Besides ...
... tell us frankly your opinion , whether you do not think all writers , both French and English , ought to give place to him . " " I fear , ” replied Neander , " that in obeying your commands I shall draw some envy on myself . Besides ...
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... tell them that humour is the ridiculous extravagance of conversa- tion , wherein one man differs from all others . If then it be common , or communicated to many , how differs it from other men's ? or what indeed causes it to be ...
... tell them that humour is the ridiculous extravagance of conversa- tion , wherein one man differs from all others . If then it be common , or communicated to many , how differs it from other men's ? or what indeed causes it to be ...
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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