An Essay of Dramatic PoesyClarendon Press, 1889 - 141 páginas |
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... that when Roman society was broken up , and the Latin tongue , upon the invasions of the Barbarians , had become corrupted into several vernacular dialects , whence gradually emerged the new languages of PREFACE . xi.
... that when Roman society was broken up , and the Latin tongue , upon the invasions of the Barbarians , had become corrupted into several vernacular dialects , whence gradually emerged the new languages of PREFACE . xi.
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... Latin , and he borrowed boldly from them : there is scarce a poet 15 or historian among the Roman authors of those times whom he has not translated in Sejanus and Catiline . But he has done his robberies so openly , that one may see he ...
... Latin , and he borrowed boldly from them : there is scarce a poet 15 or historian among the Roman authors of those times whom he has not translated in Sejanus and Catiline . But he has done his robberies so openly , that one may see he ...
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... Latin verse was as great 5 a confinement to the imagination of those poets , as rhyme to ours ; and yet you find Ovid saying too much on every subject . Nescivit ( says Seneca ) quod bene cessit relinqueren : of which he gives you one ...
... Latin verse was as great 5 a confinement to the imagination of those poets , as rhyme to ours ; and yet you find Ovid saying too much on every subject . Nescivit ( says Seneca ) quod bene cessit relinqueren : of which he gives you one ...
Página 87
... Latin , of which the Italian , Spanish , French , and ours , ( made out of them and 5 the Teutonick , ) are dialects , a new way of poesy was practised ; new , I say , in those countries , for in all probability it was that of the ...
... Latin , of which the Italian , Spanish , French , and ours , ( made out of them and 5 the Teutonick , ) are dialects , a new way of poesy was practised ; new , I say , in those countries , for in all probability it was that of the ...
Página 88
... Latin verse , so especially to this of plays , since the custom of 15 nations1 at this day confirms it ; the French , Italian , and Spanish tragedies are generally writ in it ; and sure the universal consent of the most civilized parts ...
... Latin verse , so especially to this of plays , since the custom of 15 nations1 at this day confirms it ; the French , Italian , and Spanish tragedies are generally writ in it ; and sure the universal consent of the most civilized parts ...
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Página 67 - ... All the images of nature were still present to him, and he drew them not laboriously, but luckily; when he describes any thing, you more than see it, you feel it too. Those who accuse him to have wanted learning give him the greater commendation: he was naturally learned; he needed not the spectacles of books to read nature; he looked inwards, and found her there.
Página 136 - To make a child now swaddled; to proceed Man, and then shoot up, in one beard and weed, Past threescore years ; or, with three rusty swords, And help of some few foot and half-foot words, Fight over York and Lancaster's long jars, And in the tyring-house bring wounds to scars.
Página 67 - I cannot say he is everywhere alike; were he so, I should do him injury to compare him with the greatest of mankind. He is many times flat, insipid; his comic wit degenerating into clenches, his serious swelling into bombast. But he is always great when some great occasion is presented to him...
Página 70 - Catiline. But he has done his robberies so openly, that one may see he fears not to be taxed by any law. He invades authors like a monarch; and what would be theft in other poets is only victory in him.
Página 69 - As for Jonson, to whose character I am now arrived, if we look upon him while he was himself (for his last plays were but his dotages), I think him the most learned and judicious writer which any theatre ever had. He was a most severe judge of himself, as well as others. One cannot say he wanted wit, but rather that he was frugal of it.
Página 70 - But he has done his robberies so openly, that one may see he fears not to be taxed by any law. He invades authors like a monarch ; and what would be theft in other poets, is only victory in him. With the spoils of these writers he so represents old Rome to us, in its rites, ceremonies and customs, that if one of their poets had written either of his tragedies, we had seen less of it than in him.
Página 7 - The drift of the ensuing discourse was chiefly to vindicate the honour of our English writers from the censure of those who unjustly prefer the French before them. This I intimate, lest any should think me so exceeding vain as to teach others an art which they understand much better than myself.
Página 42 - The end of tragedies or serious plays, says Aristotle, is to beget admiration, compassion, or concernment; but are not mirth and compassion things incompatible ? and is it not evident that the poet must of necessity destroy the former by intermingling of the latter?
Página 17 - A JUST AND LIVELY IMAGE OF HUMAN NATURE, REPRESENTING ITS PASSIONS AND HUMOURS; AND THE CHANGES OF FORTUNE, TO WHICH IT IS SUBJECT: FOR THE DELIGHT AND INSTRUCTION OF MANKIND.
Página 68 - Jonson, never equalled them to him in their esteem: and in the last King's court, when Ben's reputation was at highest, Sir John Suckling, and with him the greater part of the courtiers, set our Shakespeare far above him.