Dramatic EssaysJ. M. Dent & sons, Limited, 1931 - 299 sivua |
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Sivu 165
... endeavoured to imitate the copiousness of Homer , the Greek poet ; and that the Latin poet made it his business to ... endeavouring to turn his Nisus and Euryalus as close as I was able , I have performed that episode too literally ...
... endeavoured to imitate the copiousness of Homer , the Greek poet ; and that the Latin poet made it his business to ... endeavouring to turn his Nisus and Euryalus as close as I was able , I have performed that episode too literally ...
Sivu 198
... endeavoured to defame Virgil , were ever adopted into the name of critics by the Ancients ; what their reputation was then we know ; and their successors in this age deserve no better . Are our auxiliary forces turned our enemies ? are ...
... endeavoured to defame Virgil , were ever adopted into the name of critics by the Ancients ; what their reputation was then we know ; and their successors in this age deserve no better . Are our auxiliary forces turned our enemies ? are ...
Sivu 259
... endeavoured to graff on it ; but most of them are of necessity to be lost , because they will not shine in any but their own . Virgil has sometimes two of them in a line ; but the scantiness of our heroic verse is not capable of ...
... endeavoured to graff on it ; but most of them are of necessity to be lost , because they will not shine in any but their own . Virgil has sometimes two of them in a line ; but the scantiness of our heroic verse is not capable of ...
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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