Dramatic EssaysJ.M. Dent & sons, Limited, 1928 - 299 sivua |
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Sivu 67
... betwixt comedy , tragedy , and farce , but what is only made by the people's taste , which distinguishes one of them from the other , that is so manifest an error , that I need not lose time to contradict it . Were there neither judge ...
... betwixt comedy , tragedy , and farce , but what is only made by the people's taste , which distinguishes one of them from the other , that is so manifest an error , that I need not lose time to contradict it . Were there neither judge ...
Sivu 72
... betwixt two rooms than betwixt two houses , betwixt two houses than betwixt two cities , and so of the rest ; Reason therefore can sooner be led by Imagination to step from one room into another , than to walk to two distant houses ...
... betwixt two rooms than betwixt two houses , betwixt two houses than betwixt two cities , and so of the rest ; Reason therefore can sooner be led by Imagination to step from one room into another , than to walk to two distant houses ...
Sivu 214
... betwixt the Epopee and the Tragedy was not altogether a digression ; for ' tis concluded on all hands that they are both the masterpieces of human wit . In the meantime , I may be bold to draw this corollary from what has been already ...
... betwixt the Epopee and the Tragedy was not altogether a digression ; for ' tis concluded on all hands that they are both the masterpieces of human wit . In the meantime , I may be bold to draw this corollary from what has been already ...
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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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