Dramatic EssaysJ.M. Dent & sons, Limited, 1928 - 299 sivua |
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... better than the former . And this , I think , is the state of the question in dispute . It is therefore my part to make it clear , that the language , wit , and conversation of our age are improved and refined above the last ; and then ...
... better than the former . And this , I think , is the state of the question in dispute . It is therefore my part to make it clear , that the language , wit , and conversation of our age are improved and refined above the last ; and then ...
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... better than thus has Ovid been served by the so - much - admired Sandys . This is at least the idea which I have remaining of his translation ; for I never read him since I was a boy . They who take him upon content , from the praises ...
... better than thus has Ovid been served by the so - much - admired Sandys . This is at least the idea which I have remaining of his translation ; for I never read him since I was a boy . They who take him upon content , from the praises ...
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... better critics than the English , as they are worse poets . Thus we generally allow , that they better understand the manage- ment of a war than our islanders ; but we know we are superior to them in the day of battle . They value ...
... better critics than the English , as they are worse poets . Thus we generally allow , that they better understand the manage- ment of a war than our islanders ; but we know we are superior to them in the day of battle . They value ...
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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