Dramatic EssaysJ. M. Dent & sons, Limited, 1931 - 299 sivua |
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Sivu 208
... whole poem , is noted for want of conduct and judgment , instead of staying , as he might have done , for the death of Capaneus , Hippomedon , Tydeus , or some other of his seven champions ( who are heroes all alike ) , or more properly ...
... whole poem , is noted for want of conduct and judgment , instead of staying , as he might have done , for the death of Capaneus , Hippomedon , Tydeus , or some other of his seven champions ( who are heroes all alike ) , or more properly ...
Sivu 232
... whole passion of love is more exactly described than in any other poet . Love was the theme of his Fourth Book ; and , though it is the shortest of the whole Æneis , yet there he has given its beginning , its progress , its traverses ...
... whole passion of love is more exactly described than in any other poet . Love was the theme of his Fourth Book ; and , though it is the shortest of the whole Æneis , yet there he has given its beginning , its progress , its traverses ...
Sivu 275
... whole . In general I will only say that I have written nothing which savours of immorality or profaneness ; at least , I am not con- scious to myself of any such intention . If there happen to be found an irreverent expression , or a ...
... whole . In general I will only say that I have written nothing which savours of immorality or profaneness ; at least , I am not con- scious to myself of any such intention . If there happen to be found an irreverent expression , or a ...
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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