Dramatic EssaysJ.M. Dent & sons, Limited, 1928 - 299 sivua |
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... acknowledge them to have written better . Questionless we are deprived of a great stock of wit in the loss of Menander among the Greek poets , and of Cæcilius , Afranius , and Varius , among the Romans ; we may guess at Menander's ...
... acknowledge them to have written better . Questionless we are deprived of a great stock of wit in the loss of Menander among the Greek poets , and of Cæcilius , Afranius , and Varius , among the Romans ; we may guess at Menander's ...
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... acknowledge that the French contrive their plots more regularly , and observe the laws of comedy , and decorum of the stage ( to speak generally ) , with more exactness than the English . Farther , I deny not but he has taxed us justly ...
... acknowledge that the French contrive their plots more regularly , and observe the laws of comedy , and decorum of the stage ( to speak generally ) , with more exactness than the English . Farther , I deny not but he has taxed us justly ...
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... acknowledge at all , or very rarely , any such kind of poesy as blank verse amongst them . There- fore , at most ' tis but a poetic prose , a sermo pedestris ; and as such , most fit for comedies , where I acknowledge rhyme to be ...
... acknowledge at all , or very rarely , any such kind of poesy as blank verse amongst them . There- fore , at most ' tis but a poetic prose , a sermo pedestris ; and as such , most fit for comedies , where I acknowledge rhyme to be ...
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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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