Dramatic EssaysJ.M. Dent & sons, Limited, 1928 - 299 sivua |
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... poesy is of so large an extent , and so many both of the ancients and moderns have done well in all kinds of it , that in citing one against the other , we shall take up more time this evening than each man's occasions will allow him ...
... poesy is of so large an extent , and so many both of the ancients and moderns have done well in all kinds of it , that in citing one against the other , we shall take up more time this evening than each man's occasions will allow him ...
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John Dryden. A DEFENCE OF AN ESSAY OF DRAMATIC POESY THE former edition of The Indian Emperor being full of faults , which had escaped the printer , I have been willing to overlook this second with more care ; and though I could not ...
John Dryden. A DEFENCE OF AN ESSAY OF DRAMATIC POESY THE former edition of The Indian Emperor being full of faults , which had escaped the printer , I have been willing to overlook this second with more care ; and though I could not ...
Sivu 68
... Poesy must resemble natural truth , but it must be ethical . Indeed the poet dresses truth , and adorns nature , but does not alter them : Ficta voluptatis causa sint proxima veris . A Therefore , that is not the best poesy which ...
... Poesy must resemble natural truth , but it must be ethical . Indeed the poet dresses truth , and adorns nature , but does not alter them : Ficta voluptatis causa sint proxima veris . A Therefore , that is not the best poesy which ...
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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