Dramatic EssaysJ. M. Dent & sons, Limited, 1931 - 299 sivua |
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... Lucretius ; who , though often in the wrong , yet seems to deal bonâ fide with his reader , and tells him nothing but what he thinks ; in which plain sincerity , I believe , he differs from our Hobbes , who could not but be convinced ...
... Lucretius ; who , though often in the wrong , yet seems to deal bonâ fide with his reader , and tells him nothing but what he thinks ; in which plain sincerity , I believe , he differs from our Hobbes , who could not but be convinced ...
Sivu 168
... Lucretius ; and I can less easily answer why I translated it than why I thus translated it . The objection arises from the obscenity of the subject , which is aggravated by the too lively and alluring delicacy of the verses . In the ...
... Lucretius ; and I can less easily answer why I translated it than why I thus translated it . The objection arises from the obscenity of the subject , which is aggravated by the too lively and alluring delicacy of the verses . In the ...
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... Lucretius . If nothing of this kind be to be read , physicians must not study nature , anatomies must not be seen , and somewhat I could say of particular passages in books which , to avoid profaneness , I do not name . But the ...
... Lucretius . If nothing of this kind be to be read , physicians must not study nature , anatomies must not be seen , and somewhat I could say of particular passages in books which , to avoid profaneness , I do not name . But the ...
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EPISTLE DEDICATORY TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE CHARLES LORD | 1 |
A DEFENCE OF AN ESSAY OF DRAMATIC POESY | 60 |
ON COMEDY FARCE AND TRAGEDY | 77 |
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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