Dramatic EssaysJ.M. Dent & sons, Limited, 1928 - 299 sivua |
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... imitation of nature being in the definition of a play , those which best fulfil that law ought to be esteemed superior to the others . ' Tis true , those beauties of the French poesy are such as will raise perfection higher where it is ...
... imitation of nature being in the definition of a play , those which best fulfil that law ought to be esteemed superior to the others . ' Tis true , those beauties of the French poesy are such as will raise perfection higher where it is ...
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... imitation of Homer : " We ought not to regard a good imitation as a theft , but as a beautiful idea of him who undertakes to imitate , by forming himself on the invention and the work of another man ; for he enters into the lists like a ...
... imitation of Homer : " We ought not to regard a good imitation as a theft , but as a beautiful idea of him who undertakes to imitate , by forming himself on the invention and the work of another man ; for he enters into the lists like a ...
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... imitation . But if Virgil , or Ovid , or any regular intelligible authors , be thus used , ' tis no longer to be called their work , when neither the thoughts nor words are drawn from the original ; but instead of them there is ...
... imitation . But if Virgil , or Ovid , or any regular intelligible authors , be thus used , ' tis no longer to be called their work , when neither the thoughts nor words are drawn from the original ; but instead of them there is ...
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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