Dramatic EssaysJ. M. Dent & sons, Limited, 1931 - 299 sivua |
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... story , the characters are raised : and , since no story can afford characters enough for the variety of the English stage , it follows that it is to be altered and enlarged with new personal accidents , and designs , which will almost ...
... story , the characters are raised : and , since no story can afford characters enough for the variety of the English stage , it follows that it is to be altered and enlarged with new personal accidents , and designs , which will almost ...
Sivu 288
... far above all his other stories , the noble poem of Palamon and Arcite , which is of the epic kind , and perhaps not much inferior to the Ilias , or the Eneis . The story is more pleasing than either of them , the 288 Dryden's Essays.
... far above all his other stories , the noble poem of Palamon and Arcite , which is of the epic kind , and perhaps not much inferior to the Ilias , or the Eneis . The story is more pleasing than either of them , the 288 Dryden's Essays.
Sivu 289
... story was of English growth , and Chaucer's own : but I was undeceived by Boccace ; for , casually looking on the end of his seventh Giornata , I found Dioneo ( under which name he shadows himself ) , and Fiametta ( who represents his ...
... story was of English growth , and Chaucer's own : but I was undeceived by Boccace ; for , casually looking on the end of his seventh Giornata , I found Dioneo ( under which name he shadows himself ) , and Fiametta ( who represents his ...
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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