Dramatic EssaysJ. M. Dent & sons, Limited, 1931 - 299 sivua |
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Sivu 48
... appear yet more plainly how improper it is in plays . And the first of them is grounded on that very reason for which some have commended rhyme ; they say , the quickness of repartees in argumentative scenes receives an ornament from ...
... appear yet more plainly how improper it is in plays . And the first of them is grounded on that very reason for which some have commended rhyme ; they say , the quickness of repartees in argumentative scenes receives an ornament from ...
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... appear ( which is but seldom ) literally graceful , it were an injury to the author that they should be changed . But since every language is so full of its own proprieties , that what is beautiful in one is often barbarous , nay ...
... appear ( which is but seldom ) literally graceful , it were an injury to the author that they should be changed . But since every language is so full of its own proprieties , that what is beautiful in one is often barbarous , nay ...
Sivu 212
... appear absurd upon the stage ; and those not only the speciosa miracula , as Horace calls them , of transformations , of Scylla , Antiphates and the Læstrygons , which cannot be represented even in operas ; but the prowess of Achilles ...
... appear absurd upon the stage ; and those not only the speciosa miracula , as Horace calls them , of transformations , of Scylla , Antiphates and the Læstrygons , which cannot be represented even in operas ; but the prowess of Achilles ...
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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