Dramatic EssaysJ. M. Dent & sons, Limited, 1931 - 299 sivua |
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Sivu 102
... amongst many insignificant phrases , there happen not something worth preserving ; though they themselves , like Indians , know not the value of their own commodity . There is yet another way of improving language , which poets ...
... amongst many insignificant phrases , there happen not something worth preserving ; though they themselves , like Indians , know not the value of their own commodity . There is yet another way of improving language , which poets ...
Sivu 133
... amongst many others , I cannot wholly ascribe to the excellency of the action , for I find it moving when it is read : ' tis true the faults of the plot are so evidently proved that they can no longer be denied . The beauties of it must ...
... amongst many others , I cannot wholly ascribe to the excellency of the action , for I find it moving when it is read : ' tis true the faults of the plot are so evidently proved that they can no longer be denied . The beauties of it must ...
Sivu 190
... amongst us ; in which I am sure I have your approbation . The learned languages have certainly a great advantage of us , in not being tied to the slavery of any rhyme ; and were less constrained in the quantity of every syllable , which ...
... amongst us ; in which I am sure I have your approbation . The learned languages have certainly a great advantage of us , in not being tied to the slavery of any rhyme ; and were less constrained in the quantity of every syllable , which ...
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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