Dramatic EssaysJ.M. Dent & Sons, Limited, 1921 - 299 sivua |
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... Books , " the problem of the comparative merits of the ancients and the moderns , and of the right of the moderns to break away from classic leading - strings , assert the freedom of individual genius , and work out the principles of a ...
... Books , " the problem of the comparative merits of the ancients and the moderns , and of the right of the moderns to break away from classic leading - strings , assert the freedom of individual genius , and work out the principles of a ...
Sivu xiv
... Books he is so far a modern that , however much he may himself find to blame in the older English drama , he is in general solicitous to protect it against its detractors . But he is equally solicitous to defend the achievements of his ...
... Books he is so far a modern that , however much he may himself find to blame in the older English drama , he is in general solicitous to protect it against its detractors . But he is equally solicitous to defend the achievements of his ...
Sivu xviii
... Books , 1891 ; edited with Introduction by A. J. Church , 1910 . Fables , Ancient and Modern , translated into verse ... book of Ovid's Metamorphoses , Speeches of Ajax and Ulysses , The Wife of Bath , Of the Pythagorean Philosophy , The ...
... Books , 1891 ; edited with Introduction by A. J. Church , 1910 . Fables , Ancient and Modern , translated into verse ... book of Ovid's Metamorphoses , Speeches of Ajax and Ulysses , The Wife of Bath , Of the Pythagorean Philosophy , The ...
Sivu xix
... Books , 1892 ; Albion Edition , with additional lyrics from the plays , and with Memoir , 1893 ; with Introduction and Textual Notes by J. Sargeaunt , 1910 . Selections . - Edited by W. D. Christie ( Clarendon Press ) , 1871 ; 5th ...
... Books , 1892 ; Albion Edition , with additional lyrics from the plays , and with Memoir , 1893 ; with Introduction and Textual Notes by J. Sargeaunt , 1910 . Selections . - Edited by W. D. Christie ( Clarendon Press ) , 1871 ; 5th ...
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... book in praise of Cato , made it not so much his business to condemn Cato , as to praise Cicero . But that I may decline some part of the encounter with my adversaries , whom I am neither willing to combat , nor well able to resist ; I ...
... book in praise of Cato , made it not so much his business to condemn Cato , as to praise Cicero . But that I may decline some part of the encounter with my adversaries , whom I am neither willing to combat , nor well able to resist ; I ...
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acknowledge action admiration advantage Æneas allowed already ancients answer appear argument audience beauties beginning better betwixt Book cause character comedy common concernment conclude confess critics defend difference drama effect English Essay example excellent expression fancy faults follow forced French give given greater hero heroic Homer honour humour imagination imitation invention Italy Jonson judge judgment kind language Latin learned least leave less lived Lord manners master mean nature never observed opinion Ovid passions perfection performed perhaps persons play pleased plot poem poesy poet poetry present proper prove raised reader reason received represented rest rhyme Roman rules scene seems sense Shakspeare sometimes sound speak stage suppose taken tell things thought tragedy translation true turn verse Virgil virtue whole write written
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Sivu 40 - He is many times flat and insipid, his comic wit degenerating into clenches, his serious swelling into bombast. But he is always great when some great occasion is presented to him.
Sivu ii - WILL BE PLEASED TO SEND FREELY TO ALL APPLICANTS A LIST OF THE PUBLISHED AND PROJECTED VOLUMES TO BE COMPRISED UNDER THE FOLLOWING TWELVE HEADINGS: TRAVEL ^ SCIENCE ^ FICTION THEOLOGY & PHILOSOPHY HISTORY ? CLASSICAL FOR YOUNG PEOPLE ESSAYS ^ ORATORY POETRY & DRAMA BIOGRAPHY ROMANCE IN TWO STYLES OF BINDING, CLOTH, FLAT BACK, COLOURED TOP, AND LEATHER, ROUND CORNERS, GILT TOP.
Sivu 42 - Shakespeare was the Homer, or father of our dramatic poets ; Jonson was the Virgil, the pattern of elaborate writing ; I admire him, but I love Shakespeare. To conclude of him ; as he has given us the most correct plays, so in the precepts which he has laid down in his Discoveries, we have as many and profitable rules for perfecting the stage, as any wherewith the French can furnish us.
Sivu 41 - As for Jonson, to whose character I am now arrived, if we look upon him while he was himself (for his last plays were but his dotages), I think him the most learned and judicious writer which any theatre ever had. He was a most severe judge of himself, as well as others. One cannot say he wanted wit, but rather that he was frugal of it.
Sivu 32 - Tis true, those beauties of the French poesy are such as will raise perfection higher where it is, but are not sufficient to give it where it is not: they are indeed the beauties of a statue, but not of a man, because not animated with the soul of Poesy, which is imitation of humour and passions...
Sivu 108 - ... one of the greatest, most noble, and most sublime poems, which either this age or nation has produced.
Sivu 274 - ... they who think too well of their own performances, are apt to boast in their prefaces how little time their works have cost them ; and what other business of more importance interfered ; but the reader will be as apt to ask the question, why they allowed not a longer time to make their works more perfect ? and why they had so despicable an opinion of their judges, as to thrust their indigested stuff upon them, as if they deserved no better...
Sivu 38 - English stage. For, if you consider the plots, our own are fuller of variety; if the writing, ours are more quick and fuller of spirit...
Sivu 41 - Wit and language, and humour also in some measure, we had before him ; but something of art was wanting to the drama till he came. He managed his strength to more advantage than any who preceded him. You seldom find him making love in any of his scenes, or endeavouring to move the passions ; his genius was too sullen and saturnine to do it gracefully, especially when he knew he came after those who had performed both to such a height.
Sivu 162 - Latin would not appear so shining in the English: and where I have enlarged them, I desire the false critics would not always think that those thoughts are wholly mine, but that either they are secretly in the poet, or may be fairly deduced from him...