Dramatic EssaysJ. M. Dent & sons, Limited, 1931 - 299 sivua |
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... invention , yet Heroic Poetry gave him the examples of that invention , because it was first and Homer the common father of the stage . I know not of any one advantage which Tragedy can boast above Heroic Poetry , but that it is repre ...
... invention , yet Heroic Poetry gave him the examples of that invention , because it was first and Homer the common father of the stage . I know not of any one advantage which Tragedy can boast above Heroic Poetry , but that it is repre ...
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... invention is to be taken in so strict a sense that the matter of a poem must be wholly new , and that in all its parts , then Scaliger has made out , says Segrais , that the history of Troy was no more the invention of Homer than of ...
... invention is to be taken in so strict a sense that the matter of a poem must be wholly new , and that in all its parts , then Scaliger has made out , says Segrais , that the history of Troy was no more the invention of Homer than of ...
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... invention was more copious , Virgil's more confined ; so that if Homer had not led the way , it was not in Virgil to have begun heroic poetry ; for nothing can be more evident than that the Roman poem is but the second part of the Ilias ...
... invention was more copious , Virgil's more confined ; so that if Homer had not led the way , it was not in Virgil to have begun heroic poetry ; for nothing can be more evident than that the Roman poem is but the second part of the Ilias ...
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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