Dramatic EssaysJ.M. Dent & sons, Limited, 1928 - 299 sivua |
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Sivu ix
... prose writer and first systematic critic . English prose before the Restoration— the prose , for example , of Raleigh and Hooker — was stately , rich , and at times magnificent ; but it was too cumbrous , intricate , and unwieldy for ...
... prose writer and first systematic critic . English prose before the Restoration— the prose , for example , of Raleigh and Hooker — was stately , rich , and at times magnificent ; but it was too cumbrous , intricate , and unwieldy for ...
Sivu 62
... prose or verse be nearest to ordinary conversation . It still remains for him to prove his inference , -that , since verse is granted to be more remote than prose from ordinary conversation , therefore no serious plays ought to be writ ...
... prose or verse be nearest to ordinary conversation . It still remains for him to prove his inference , -that , since verse is granted to be more remote than prose from ordinary conversation , therefore no serious plays ought to be writ ...
Sivu 63
... prose , as he does in his higher arguments of comedy , The Fox , and Alchymist ; yet he does so raise his matter in that prose as to render it delightful ; which he could never have performed had he only said or done those very things ...
... prose , as he does in his higher arguments of comedy , The Fox , and Alchymist ; yet he does so raise his matter in that prose as to render it delightful ; which he could never have performed had he only said or done those very things ...
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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