Dramatic EssaysJ.M. Dent & sons, Limited, 1928 - 299 sivua |
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... audience and that is many times the ruin of the play ; for , being once let pass without attention , the audience can never recover themselves to understand the plot : and indeed it is somewhat unreason- able that they should be put to ...
... audience and that is many times the ruin of the play ; for , being once let pass without attention , the audience can never recover themselves to understand the plot : and indeed it is somewhat unreason- able that they should be put to ...
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... audience . As for his other argument , that by pursuing one single theme they gain an advantage to express and work up the passions , I wish any example he could bring from them would make it good ; for I confess their verses are to me ...
... audience . As for his other argument , that by pursuing one single theme they gain an advantage to express and work up the passions , I wish any example he could bring from them would make it good ; for I confess their verses are to me ...
Sivu 139
... audience , three parts of which are ignorant enough to think all is moving which is noise , and it may stretch the lungs of an ambitious actor who will die upon the spot for a thundering clap ; but it will move no other passion than ...
... audience , three parts of which are ignorant enough to think all is moving which is noise , and it may stretch the lungs of an ambitious actor who will die upon the spot for a thundering clap ; but it will move no other passion than ...
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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