Dramatic EssaysJ.M. Dent & sons, Limited, 1928 - 299 sivua |
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Sivu xviii
... Boccace , and Chaucer , with original poems ( Palamon and Arcite , Mele- ager and Atalanta , Sigismonda and Guiscardo , Baucis and Philemon , Pigmalion and the Statue , Ciniras and Myrrha , 1st Book of Homer's Iliad , The Cock and the ...
... Boccace , and Chaucer , with original poems ( Palamon and Arcite , Mele- ager and Atalanta , Sigismonda and Guiscardo , Baucis and Philemon , Pigmalion and the Statue , Ciniras and Myrrha , 1st Book of Homer's Iliad , The Cock and the ...
Sivu 273
... Boccace , who was not only his contemporary , but also pursued the same studies ; wrote novels in prose , and many works in verse ; parti- cularly is said to have invented the octave rhyme , or stanza of eight lines , which ever since ...
... Boccace , who was not only his contemporary , but also pursued the same studies ; wrote novels in prose , and many works in verse ; parti- cularly is said to have invented the octave rhyme , or stanza of eight lines , which ever since ...
Sivu 274
... Boccace himself , who is yet the standard of purity in the Italian tongue , though many of his phrases are become obsolete , as in process of time it must needs happen . Chaucer ( as you have formerly been told by our learned Mr. Rymer ) ...
... Boccace himself , who is yet the standard of purity in the Italian tongue , though many of his phrases are become obsolete , as in process of time it must needs happen . Chaucer ( as you have formerly been told by our learned Mr. Rymer ) ...
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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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