Dramatic EssaysJ. M. Dent & sons, Limited, 1931 - 299 sivua |
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... excellent thoughts in Seneca , yet he of them who had a genius most proper for the stage , was Ovid ; he had a way of writing so fit to stir up a pleasing admiration and con- cernment , which are the objects of a tragedy , and to show ...
... excellent thoughts in Seneca , yet he of them who had a genius most proper for the stage , was Ovid ; he had a way of writing so fit to stir up a pleasing admiration and con- cernment , which are the objects of a tragedy , and to show ...
Sivu 63
... excellent piece ; but to take so much only as will make a beautiful resem- blance of the whole ; and , with an ingenious flattery of nature , to heighten the beauties of some parts , and hide the deformities of the rest . For so says ...
... excellent piece ; but to take so much only as will make a beautiful resem- blance of the whole ; and , with an ingenious flattery of nature , to heighten the beauties of some parts , and hide the deformities of the rest . For so says ...
Sivu 193
... excellent images of Nature , most of which are neither great in themselves nor have any natural ornament to bear them up ; but the words wherewith he describes them are so excellent that it might be well applied to him which was said by ...
... excellent images of Nature , most of which are neither great in themselves nor have any natural ornament to bear them up ; but the words wherewith he describes them are so excellent that it might be well applied to him which was said by ...
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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