Dramatic EssaysJ.M. Dent & sons, Limited, 1928 - 299 sivua |
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Sivu 162
... Greek or 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 ...
... Greek or 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 ...
Sivu 165
... Greek poet ; and that the Latin poet made it his business to reach the conciseness of Demosthenes , the Greek orator . Virgil there- fore , being so very sparing of his words , and leaving so much to be imagined by the reader , can ...
... Greek poet ; and that the Latin poet made it his business to reach the conciseness of Demosthenes , the Greek orator . Virgil there- fore , being so very sparing of his words , and leaving so much to be imagined by the reader , can ...
Sivu 200
... Greek writers only gave us the rudiments of a stage which they never finished ; that many of the tragedies in the former age amongst us were without com- parison beyond those of Sophocles and Euripides . But at present I have neither ...
... Greek writers only gave us the rudiments of a stage which they never finished ; that many of the tragedies in the former age amongst us were without com- parison beyond those of Sophocles and Euripides . But at present I have neither ...
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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