Dramatic EssaysJ.M. Dent & sons, Limited, 1928 - 299 sivua |
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... endeavoured to answer your objections ; it remains only that I should vindicate an argument for verse , which you have gone about to overthrow . It had formerly been said that the easiness of blank verse renders the poet too luxuriant ...
... endeavoured to answer your objections ; it remains only that I should vindicate an argument for verse , which you have gone about to overthrow . It had formerly been said that the easiness of blank verse renders the poet too luxuriant ...
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John Dryden. porary , observed of Virgil and Tully , that the Latin orator endeavoured to imitate the copiousness of ... endeavouring to turn his Nisus and Euryalus as close as I was able , I have performed that episode too ...
John Dryden. porary , observed of Virgil and Tully , that the Latin orator endeavoured to imitate the copiousness of ... endeavouring to turn his Nisus and Euryalus as close as I was able , I have performed that episode too ...
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... endeavoured to graff on it ; but most of them are of necessity to be lost , because they will not shine in any but their own . Virgil has sometimes two of them in a line ; but the scantiness of our heroic verse is not capable of ...
... endeavoured to graff on it ; but most of them are of necessity to be lost , because they will not shine in any but their own . Virgil has sometimes two of them in a line ; but the scantiness of our heroic verse is not capable of ...
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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