Dramatic EssaysJ.M. Dent & sons, Limited, 1928 - 299 sivua |
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... Sejanus and Catiline , has given us this oleo of a play , this un- natural mixture of comedy and tragedy ; which to me sounds just as ridiculously as the history of David with the merry humours of Golia's . In Sejanus you may take ...
... Sejanus and Catiline , has given us this oleo of a play , this un- natural mixture of comedy and tragedy ; which to me sounds just as ridiculously as the history of David with the merry humours of Golia's . In Sejanus you may take ...
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... Sejanus , where the argument is great , he sometimes ascends to verse , which shows he thought it not unnatural in serious plays ; and had his genius been as proper for rhyme as it was for humour , or had the age in which he lived ...
... Sejanus , where the argument is great , he sometimes ascends to verse , which shows he thought it not unnatural in serious plays ; and had his genius been as proper for rhyme as it was for humour , or had the age in which he lived ...
Sivu 74
... Sejanus and Catiline , a much larger time : though he draws both of them into as narrow a compass as he can : for he shows you only the latter end of Sejanus his favour , and the conspiracy of Catiline already ripe , and just breaking ...
... Sejanus and Catiline , a much larger time : though he draws both of them into as narrow a compass as he can : for he shows you only the latter end of Sejanus his favour , and the conspiracy of Catiline already ripe , and just breaking ...
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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