Dramatic EssaysJ.M. Dent & sons, Limited, 1912 - 299 sivua |
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Sivu xiv
... whole , this essay is disappointing ; too much space is wasted upon verbal criticisms of a singularly petty and profitless kind . Yet a larger purpose is apparent in the argument ; the writer is anxious to show that if the modern ...
... whole , this essay is disappointing ; too much space is wasted upon verbal criticisms of a singularly petty and profitless kind . Yet a larger purpose is apparent in the argument ; the writer is anxious to show that if the modern ...
Sivu xv
... whole rather tame and conventional ; the learning which he parades is for the most part second - hand learning ; and , except in his analysis of the character of Æneas , which may still be read with profit , there is little that is ...
... whole rather tame and conventional ; the learning which he parades is for the most part second - hand learning ; and , except in his analysis of the character of Æneas , which may still be read with profit , there is little that is ...
Sivu 26
... whole and great action sufficient for a play ; we , who undertake more , do but multiply adventures which , not being produced from one another , as effects from causes , but rarely following , constitute many actions in the drama , and ...
... whole and great action sufficient for a play ; we , who undertake more , do but multiply adventures which , not being produced from one another , as effects from causes , but rarely following , constitute many actions in the drama , and ...
Sivu 28
... whole play . All passions may be lively represented on the stage , if to the well - writing of them the actor supplies a good commanded voice , and limbs that move easily , and without stiffness ; but there are many actions which can ...
... whole play . All passions may be lively represented on the stage , if to the well - writing of them the actor supplies a good commanded voice , and limbs that move easily , and without stiffness ; but there are many actions which can ...
Sivu 30
... whole unravelling of the plot is done by narration in the fifth act , after the manner of the ancients ; and it moves great concernment in the audience , though it be only a relation of what was done many years before the play . I could ...
... whole unravelling of the plot is done by narration in the fifth act , after the manner of the ancients ; and it moves great concernment in the audience , though it be only a relation of what was done many years before the play . I could ...
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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