Dramatic EssaysJ.M. Dent & sons, Limited, 1928 - 299 sivua |
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... 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 ...
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... Latin , if he use the same diligence in his choice of words . One would think , unlock a door , was a thing as vulgar as could be spoken ; yet Seneca could make it sound high and lofty in his Latin : Reserate clusos regii postes laris ...
... Latin , if he use the same diligence in his choice of words . One would think , unlock a door , was a thing as vulgar as could be spoken ; yet Seneca could make it sound high and lofty in his Latin : Reserate clusos regii postes laris ...
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John Dryden. porary , observed of Virgil and Tully , that the Latin orator endeavoured to imitate the copiousness of Homer , the Greek poet ; and that the Latin poet made it his business to reach the conciseness of Demosthenes , the ...
John Dryden. porary , observed of Virgil and Tully , that the Latin orator endeavoured to imitate the copiousness of Homer , the Greek poet ; and that the Latin poet made it his business to reach the conciseness of Demosthenes , the ...
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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