Dramatic EssaysJ.M. Dent & sons, Limited, 1928 - 299 sivua |
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... numbers vary , and the rhyme is disposed carelessly , and far from often chiming . Neither is that other advantage of the ancients to be despised , of changing the kind of verse when they please , with the change of the scene , or some ...
... numbers vary , and the rhyme is disposed carelessly , and far from often chiming . Neither is that other advantage of the ancients to be despised , of changing the kind of verse when they please , with the change of the scene , or some ...
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... numbers are perpetually varied to increase the delight of the reader ; so that the same sounds are never repeated twice together . On the contrary , Ovid and Claudian , though they write in styles differing from each other , yet have ...
... numbers are perpetually varied to increase the delight of the reader ; so that the same sounds are never repeated twice together . On the contrary , Ovid and Claudian , though they write in styles differing from each other , yet have ...
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... numbers , im- proper English , and a monstrous length of verse could carry him . What then would he appear in the harmonious version of one of the best writers , living in a much better age than was the last ? I mean for versification ...
... numbers , im- proper English , and a monstrous length of verse could carry him . What then would he appear in the harmonious version of one of the best writers , living in a much better age than was the last ? I mean for versification ...
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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