Dramatic EssaysJ.M. Dent & sons, Limited, 1928 - 299 sivua |
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... language in them arrived to its highest perfection : what words have since been taken in , are rather superfluous than ornamental . Their plays are now the most pleasant and frequent entertain- ments of the stage ; two of theirs being ...
... language in them arrived to its highest perfection : what words have since been taken in , are rather superfluous than ornamental . Their plays are now the most pleasant and frequent entertain- ments of the stage ; two of theirs being ...
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... language . Terence was not only known to translate Menander ( which he avows also in his prologues ) , but was said also to be helped in those translations by Scipio the African , and Lælius . And Tasso , the most excel- lent of modern ...
... language . Terence was not only known to translate Menander ( which he avows also in his prologues ) , but was said also to be helped in those translations by Scipio the African , and Lælius . And Tasso , the most excel- lent of modern ...
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... Language , and Conversation ; or , an alteration in them for the better . To begin with Language . That an alteration is lately made in ours , or since the writers of the last age ( in which I comprehend Shakspeare , Fletcher , and ...
... Language , and Conversation ; or , an alteration in them for the better . To begin with Language . That an alteration is lately made in ours , or since the writers of the last age ( in which I comprehend Shakspeare , Fletcher , and ...
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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