Dramatic EssaysJ.M. Dent & sons, Limited, 1928 - 299 sivua |
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Sivu 98
... least not arrived to its vigour and maturity : witness the lameness of their plots ; many of which , especially those which they writ first ( for even that age refined itself in some measure ) , were made up of some ridiculous ...
... least not arrived to its vigour and maturity : witness the lameness of their plots ; many of which , especially those which they writ first ( for even that age refined itself in some measure ) , were made up of some ridiculous ...
Sivu 121
... least where he is not bribed by interest , or prejudiced by malice . And this , I suppose , is manifest by plain induction : for , first , the crowd cannot be presumed to have more than a gross instinct of what pleases or displeases ...
... least where he is not bribed by interest , or prejudiced by malice . And this , I suppose , is manifest by plain induction : for , first , the crowd cannot be presumed to have more than a gross instinct of what pleases or displeases ...
Sivu 168
... least sense of them ; powerful men are only awed by them as they conduce to their interest , and that not always when a passion is predominant ; and no man will be contained within the bounds of duty when he may safely trans- gress them ...
... least sense of them ; powerful men are only awed by them as they conduce to their interest , and that not always when a passion is predominant ; and no man will be contained within the bounds of duty when he may safely trans- gress them ...
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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