Dramatic EssaysJ. M. Dent & sons, Limited, 1931 - 299 sivua |
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... given , that all incredible actions were removed ; but whether custom has so insinuated itself into our countrymen , or nature has so formed them to fierceness , I know not ; but they will scarcely suffer combats and other objects of ...
... given , that all incredible actions were removed ; but whether custom has so insinuated itself into our countrymen , or nature has so formed them to fierceness , I know not ; but they will scarcely suffer combats and other objects of ...
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... given had I known you . Nothing had been more easy than to commend a patron of long standing . The world would join with me , if the encomiums were just ; and , if unjust , would excuse a grateful flatterer . But to come anonymous upon ...
... given had I known you . Nothing had been more easy than to commend a patron of long standing . The world would join with me , if the encomiums were just ; and , if unjust , would excuse a grateful flatterer . But to come anonymous upon ...
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... given him no personal occasion to be otherwise , he will be glad of my repentance . It becomes me not to draw my pen in the defence of a bad cause , when I have so often drawn it for a good one . Yet it were not difficult to prove that ...
... given him no personal occasion to be otherwise , he will be glad of my repentance . It becomes me not to draw my pen in the defence of a bad cause , when I have so often drawn it for a good one . Yet it were not difficult to prove that ...
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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