Dramatic EssaysJ. M. Dent & sons, Limited, 1931 - 299 sivua |
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... hero , his magnanimity , his constancy , his patience , his piety , or whatever characteristical virtue his poet gives him , raises first our admiration ; we are naturally prone to imitate what we admire ; and frequent acts produce a ...
... hero , his magnanimity , his constancy , his patience , his piety , or whatever characteristical virtue his poet gives him , raises first our admiration ; we are naturally prone to imitate what we admire ; and frequent acts produce a ...
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... hero . I have said already from Bossu , that a poet is not obliged to make his hero a virtuous man ; therefore , neither Homer nor Tasso are to be blamed for giving what predominant quality they pleased to their first character . But ...
... hero . I have said already from Bossu , that a poet is not obliged to make his hero a virtuous man ; therefore , neither Homer nor Tasso are to be blamed for giving what predominant quality they pleased to their first character . But ...
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... hero truly to deserve that name . He was not then a second - rate champion , as they would have him , who thinks fortitude the first virtue in a hero . But , being beaten from this hold , they will not yet allow him to be valiant ...
... hero truly to deserve that name . He was not then a second - rate champion , as they would have him , who thinks fortitude the first virtue in a hero . But , being beaten from this hold , they will not yet allow him to be valiant ...
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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