Dramatic EssaysJ. M. Dent & sons, Limited, 1931 - 299 sivua |
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... kind of writing , till we could produce as good plays in rhyme as Ben Jonson , Fletcher , and Shak- speare had writ out of it . But it is to raise envy to the living , to compare them with the dead . They are honoured , and almost ...
... kind of writing , till we could produce as good plays in rhyme as Ben Jonson , Fletcher , and Shak- speare had writ out of it . But it is to raise envy to the living , to compare them with the dead . They are honoured , and almost ...
Sivu 103
... kind of looking downward in the poet , and representing that part of mankind which is below him . In these low characters of vice and folly lay the excellency of that inimitable writer ; who , when at any time he aimed at wit in the ...
... kind of looking downward in the poet , and representing that part of mankind which is below him . In these low characters of vice and folly lay the excellency of that inimitable writer ; who , when at any time he aimed at wit in the ...
Sivu 260
... kind of elegance . Thus , by gaining abroad , he lost at home ; like the painter in the Arcadia , who , going to see a skirmish , had his arms lopped off , and returned , says Sir Philip Sidney , well instructed how to draw a battle ...
... kind of elegance . Thus , by gaining abroad , he lost at home ; like the painter in the Arcadia , who , going to see a skirmish , had his arms lopped off , and returned , says Sir Philip Sidney , well instructed how to draw a battle ...
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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