Dramatic EssaysJ. M. Dent & sons, Limited, 1931 - 299 sivua |
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... Jonson ; and for the verse itself we have English precedents of elder date than any of Corneille's plays . Not to name our old comedies before Shakspeare , which were all writ in verse of six feet , or Alexandrines , such as the French ...
... Jonson ; and for the verse itself we have English precedents of elder date than any of Corneille's plays . Not to name our old comedies before Shakspeare , which were all writ in verse of six feet , or Alexandrines , such as the French ...
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... Jonson's : the reason is , because there is a certain gaiety in their comedies , and pathos in their more serious plays , which suit generally with all men's humours . Shakspeare's language is likewise a little obsolete , and Ben Jonson's ...
... Jonson's : the reason is , because there is a certain gaiety in their comedies , and pathos in their more serious plays , which suit generally with all men's humours . Shakspeare's language is likewise a little obsolete , and Ben Jonson's ...
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... Jonson , when I have not allowed his wit to be extraordinary : but they confound the notion of what is witty , with what is pleasant . That Ben Jonson's plays were pleasant , he must want reason who denies : but that pleasantness was ...
... Jonson , when I have not allowed his wit to be extraordinary : but they confound the notion of what is witty , with what is pleasant . That Ben Jonson's plays were pleasant , he must want reason who denies : but that pleasantness was ...
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EPISTLE DEDICATORY TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE CHARLES LORD | 1 |
A DEFENCE OF AN ESSAY OF DRAMATIC POESY | 60 |
THE DRAMATIC POETRY OF THE LAST | 95 |
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acknowledge 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 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 preface prose reader reason rhyme Roman satire scene Segrais Sejanus sense serious plays Shakspeare Silent Woman speak stage suppose Theocritus things thought Tis true tragedy translation Turnus Virgil virtue words writ write