Dramatic EssaysJ.M. Dent & Sons, Limited, 1921 - 299 sivua |
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... better or the worse , I know not : neither indeed is it much material , in an essay , where all I have said is problematical . For the way of writing plays in verse , which I have seemed to favour , I have , since that time , laid the ...
... better or the worse , I know not : neither indeed is it much material , in an essay , where all I have said is problematical . For the way of writing plays in verse , which I have seemed to favour , I have , since that time , laid the ...
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... better part of poets : pars , indocili melior grege ; mollis et exspes Inominata perprimat cubilia . I am almost of opinion , that we should force you to accept of the command , as sometimes the Praetorian bands have com- pelled their ...
... better part of poets : pars , indocili melior grege ; mollis et exspes Inominata perprimat cubilia . I am almost of opinion , that we should force you to accept of the command , as sometimes the Praetorian bands have com- pelled their ...
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... better wits , I declare it is not so much to combat their opinions , as to defend my own , which were first made public . Sometimes , like a scholar in a fencing - school , I put forth myself , and show my own ill play , on purpose to ...
... better wits , I declare it is not so much to combat their opinions , as to defend my own , which were first made public . Sometimes , like a scholar in a fencing - school , I put forth myself , and show my own ill play , on purpose to ...
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... better than myself . But if this incorrect Essay , written in the country without the help of books or advice of friends , shall find any acceptance in the world , I promise to myself a better success of the Second Part , wherein I ...
... better than myself . But if this incorrect Essay , written in the country without the help of books or advice of friends , shall find any acceptance in the world , I promise to myself a better success of the Second Part , wherein I ...
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... better able , either out of modesty writ not at all , or set that due value upon their poems , as to let them be often desired and long expected . There are some of those impertinent people of whom you speak , " answered Lisideius ...
... better able , either out of modesty writ not at all , or set that due value upon their poems , as to let them be often desired and long expected . There are some of those impertinent people of whom you speak , " answered Lisideius ...
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acknowledge action admiration Æneas Æneid 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 drama 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
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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...