Dramatic EssaysJ.M. Dent & sons, Limited, 1928 - 299 sivua |
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Sivu xiii
... nature ; so that to imitate the ancients and to follow nature turn out to be one and the same thing . On the other hand , a strong case is made out for the irregular English drama , and therefore for the right of the individual ...
... nature ; so that to imitate the ancients and to follow nature turn out to be one and the same thing . On the other hand , a strong case is made out for the irregular English drama , and therefore for the right of the individual ...
Sivu 54
... nature of comedy , which is the imitation of common persons and ordinary speaking , and what is nearest the nature of a serious play : this last is indeed the representation of nature , but ' tis nature wrought up to a higher pitch ...
... nature of comedy , which is the imitation of common persons and ordinary speaking , and what is nearest the nature of a serious play : this last is indeed the representation of nature , but ' tis nature wrought up to a higher pitch ...
Sivu 69
... nature ; neither was there ever pretended any other by the ancients , or moderns , or me , who endeavour to follow them in that rule . This I have plainly said in my definition of a play ; that it is a just and lively image of human nature ...
... nature ; neither was there ever pretended any other by the ancients , or moderns , or me , who endeavour to follow them in that rule . This I have plainly said in my definition of a play ; that it is a just and lively image of human nature ...
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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