The Best of DrydenRonald Press, 1933 - 572 sivua |
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Sivu 437
... comedies ; for the rò yeλotov of the Old Comedy , of which Aristophanes was chief , was not so much to imitate a man , as to make the people laugh at some odd conceit , which had commonly somewhat of unnatural or obscene in it . Thus ...
... comedies ; for the rò yeλotov of the Old Comedy , of which Aristophanes was chief , was not so much to imitate a man , as to make the people laugh at some odd conceit , which had commonly somewhat of unnatural or obscene in it . Thus ...
Sivu 438
... comedies or farces ; they being but ill imitations of the ridiculum , or that which stirred up laughter in the Old Comedy . But among the English ' tis otherwise : where by humour is meant some ex- 2020travagant habit , passion , or ...
... comedies or farces ; they being but ill imitations of the ridiculum , or that which stirred up laughter in the Old Comedy . But among the English ' tis otherwise : where by humour is meant some ex- 2020travagant habit , passion , or ...
Sivu 480
... comedies he allows generally but twenty - four hours ; to his two trage- dies , Sejanus and Catiline , a much larger time : though he draws both of them into as narrow a compass as he can : for he shows you only the latter end of ...
... comedies he allows generally but twenty - four hours ; to his two trage- dies , Sejanus and Catiline , a much larger time : though he draws both of them into as narrow a compass as he can : for he shows you only the latter end of ...
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PREFACE | ix |
UPON THE DEATH OF THE LORD HASTINGS | 4 |
TO MY HONORD FRIEND SIR ROBERT HOWARD | 11 |
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