Dramatic EssaysJ.M. Dent & sons, Limited, 1928 - 299 sivua |
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... Homer , that he is much more capable of exciting the manly passions than those of grief and pity . To cause admiration is , indeed , the proper and adequate design of an Epic Poem ; and in that he has excelled even Virgil . Yet ...
... Homer , that he is much more capable of exciting the manly passions than those of grief and pity . To cause admiration is , indeed , the proper and adequate design of an Epic Poem ; and in that he has excelled even Virgil . Yet ...
Sivu 238
... Homer's Odysseis in his first six books , and , in his six last , the Ilias . But from hence can we infer that the two poets write the same history ? Is there no invention in some other parts of Virgil's Eneis ? The dis- position of so ...
... Homer's Odysseis in his first six books , and , in his six last , the Ilias . But from hence can we infer that the two poets write the same history ? Is there no invention in some other parts of Virgil's Eneis ? The dis- position of so ...
Sivu 276
... Homer was violent , impetuous , and full of fire . The chief talent of Virgil was propriety of thoughts , and ornament of words : Homer was rapid in his thoughts , and took all the liberties , both of numbers and of expressions , which ...
... Homer was violent , impetuous , and full of fire . The chief talent of Virgil was propriety of thoughts , and ornament of words : Homer was rapid in his thoughts , and took all the liberties , both of numbers and of expressions , which ...
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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