Dramatic EssaysJ.M. Dent & Sons, Limited, 1921 - 299 sivua |
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... Latin , and he borrowed boldly from them : there is scarce a poet or historian among the Roman authors of those times whom he has not translated in Sejanus and Catiline . But he has done his robberies so openly , that one may see he ...
... Latin , and he borrowed boldly from them : there is scarce a poet or historian among the Roman authors of those times whom he has not translated in Sejanus and Catiline . But he has done his robberies so openly , that one may see he ...
Sivu 42
... Latin as he found them : wherein , though he learnedly followed their language , he did not enough comply with the idiom of ours . If I would compare him with Shakspeare , I must acknow- ledge him the more correct poet , but Shakspeare ...
... Latin as he found them : wherein , though he learnedly followed their language , he did not enough comply with the idiom of ours . If I would compare him with Shakspeare , I must acknow- ledge him the more correct poet , but Shakspeare ...
Sivu 49
... Latin verse was as great a confinement to the imagination of those poets as rhyme to ours ; and yet you find Ovid saying too much on every sub- ject . Nescivit ( says Seneca ) quod bene cessit relinquere : of which he gives you one ...
... Latin verse was as great a confinement to the imagination of those poets as rhyme to ours ; and yet you find Ovid saying too much on every sub- ject . Nescivit ( says Seneca ) quod bene cessit relinquere : of which he gives you one ...
Sivu 51
... Latin consisted in quantity of words , and a determinate number of feet . But when , by the inunda- tion of the Goths and Vandals into Italy , new languages were introduced , and barbarously mingled with the Latin , of which the Italian ...
... Latin consisted in quantity of words , and a determinate number of feet . But when , by the inunda- tion of the Goths and Vandals into Italy , new languages were introduced , and barbarously mingled with the Latin , of which the Italian ...
Sivu 52
... Latin . No man is tied in modern poesy to observe any farther rule in the feet of his verse , but that they be dissyllables ; whether Spondee , Trochee , or Iambic , it matters not ; only he is obliged to rhyme : neither do the Spanish ...
... Latin . No man is tied in modern poesy to observe any farther rule in the feet of his verse , but that they be dissyllables ; whether Spondee , Trochee , or Iambic , it matters not ; only he is obliged to rhyme : neither do the Spanish ...
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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.
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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...