Dramatic EssaysJ.M. Dent & sons, Limited, 1928 - 299 sivua |
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Sivu 64
... noble , full , and significant ; and I know not why he who is master of it , may not clothe ordinary things in it as decently as the Latin , if he use the same diligence in his choice of words . One would think , unlock a door , was a ...
... noble , full , and significant ; and I know not why he who is master of it , may not clothe ordinary things in it as decently as the Latin , if he use the same diligence in his choice of words . One would think , unlock a door , was a ...
Sivu 210
... noble , because it turns in a shorter compass ; the whole action being circumscribed within the space of four - and - twenty hours . He might prove as well that a mushroom is to be preferred before a peach , because it shoots up in the ...
... noble , because it turns in a shorter compass ; the whole action being circumscribed within the space of four - and - twenty hours . He might prove as well that a mushroom is to be preferred before a peach , because it shoots up in the ...
Sivu 263
... noble than a common herb , and to spread roses under him , and strew lilies over him ; a bed not unworthy the grandson of the goddess . If I cannot copy his harmonious numbers , how shall I imitate his noble flights , where his thoughts ...
... noble than a common herb , and to spread roses under him , and strew lilies over him ; a bed not unworthy the grandson of the goddess . If I cannot copy his harmonious numbers , how shall I imitate his noble flights , where his thoughts ...
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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