Dramatic EssaysJ. M. Dent & sons, Limited, 1931 - 299 sivua |
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... words of some poets who write in it are either ill chosen , or ill placed , which makes not only rhyme , but all kind of verse in any language unnatural , shall Í , for their vicious affectation , condemn those excellent lines of ...
... words of some poets who write in it are either ill chosen , or ill placed , which makes not only rhyme , but all kind of verse in any language unnatural , shall Í , for their vicious affectation , condemn those excellent lines of ...
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... words and numbers for the sweetness of the voice , are the main hinges on which an opera must move ; and both of these are without the compass of any art to teach another to perform , unless Nature , in the first place , has done her ...
... words and numbers for the sweetness of the voice , are the main hinges on which an opera must move ; and both of these are without the compass of any art to teach another to perform , unless Nature , in the first place , has done her ...
Sivu 259
... word pater , for example , signifies not only a father , but your father , my father , his or her father , all included in a word . This inconvenience is common to all modern tongues ; and this alone constrains us to employ more words ...
... word pater , for example , signifies not only a father , but your father , my father , his or her father , all included in a word . This inconvenience is common to all modern tongues ; and this alone constrains us to employ more words ...
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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