Dramatic EssaysJ. M. Dent & sons, Limited, 1931 - 299 sivua |
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... writ the best plays , before we know what a play should be ? But , this once agreed on by both parties , each might have recourse to it , either to prove his own advantages , or to discover the failings of his adversary . He had no ...
... writ the best plays , before we know what a play should be ? But , this once agreed on by both parties , each might have recourse to it , either to prove his own advantages , or to discover the failings of his adversary . He had no ...
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... writ , but he would produce it much better done in Shakspeare ; and however others are now generally preferred before him , yet the age wherein he lived , which had contemporaries with him Fletcher and Jonson , never equalled them to ...
... writ , but he would produce it much better done in Shakspeare ; and however others are now generally preferred before him , yet the age wherein he lived , which had contemporaries with him Fletcher and Jonson , never equalled them to ...
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... writ in prose . And for your instance of Ben Jonson , who , you say , writ exactly without the help of rhyme ; you are to remember , ' tis only an aid to a luxuriant fancy , which his was not : as he did not want imagination , so none ...
... writ in prose . And for your instance of Ben Jonson , who , you say , writ exactly without the help of rhyme ; you are to remember , ' tis only an aid to a luxuriant fancy , which his was not : as he did not want imagination , so none ...
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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