Dramatic EssaysJ. M. Dent & sons, Limited, 1931 - 299 sivua |
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... perfection in it , which they never knew ; and which ( if we may guess by what of theirs we have seen in verse , as The Faithful Shepherdess , and Sad Shepherd ) ' tis probable they never could have reached . For the genius of every age ...
... perfection in it , which they never knew ; and which ( if we may guess by what of theirs we have seen in verse , as The Faithful Shepherdess , and Sad Shepherd ) ' tis probable they never could have reached . For the genius of every age ...
Sivu 176
... perfection , are , in reason , to give laws to it ; and , according to their model , all after - undertakers are to build . Thus , in Epic Poetry , no man ought to dispute the authority of Homer , who gave the first being to that master ...
... perfection , are , in reason , to give laws to it ; and , according to their model , all after - undertakers are to build . Thus , in Epic Poetry , no man ought to dispute the authority of Homer , who gave the first being to that master ...
Sivu 210
... perfection . And , besides what virtue is there in a tragedy which is not contained in an epic poem , where pride is humbled , virtue rewarded , and vice punished ; and those more amply treated than the narrowness of the drama can admit ...
... perfection . And , besides what virtue is there in a tragedy which is not contained in an epic poem , where pride is humbled , virtue rewarded , and vice punished ; and those more amply treated than the narrowness of the drama can admit ...
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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