Dramatic EssaysJ.M. Dent & sons, Limited, 1928 - 299 sivua |
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Tulokset 1 - 3 kokonaismäärästä 67
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... opinion of better wits , I declare it is not so much to combat their opinions , as to defend my own , which were first made public . Sometimes , like a scholar in a fencing - school , I put forth myself , and show my own ill play , on ...
... opinion of better wits , I declare it is not so much to combat their opinions , as to defend my own , which were first made public . Sometimes , like a scholar in a fencing - school , I put forth myself , and show my own ill play , on ...
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... opinion is this ( and I willingly submit it to my adversary , when he will please impartially to consider it ) , that the imaginary time of every play ought to be contrived into as narrow a com- pass as the nature of the plot , the ...
... opinion is this ( and I willingly submit it to my adversary , when he will please impartially to consider it ) , that the imaginary time of every play ought to be contrived into as narrow a com- pass as the nature of the plot , the ...
Sivu 110
... opinion of the Greek and Latin judges of antiquity ; from the Italians and French , who have succeeded them ; and , indeed , from the general taste and approbation of all ages . Heroic Poetry , which they condemn , has ever been ...
... opinion of the Greek and Latin judges of antiquity ; from the Italians and French , who have succeeded them ; and , indeed , from the general taste and approbation of all ages . Heroic Poetry , which they condemn , has ever been ...
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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