An Essay of Dramatic PoesyClarendon Press, 1889 - 141 páginas |
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... acknowledge how much our poesy is im- proved by the happiness of some writers yet living ; who first taught us to mould our thoughts into easy and significant words , -to retrench the superfluities of expression , and to make our rime ...
... acknowledge how much our poesy is im- proved by the happiness of some writers yet living ; who first taught us to mould our thoughts into easy and significant words , -to retrench the superfluities of expression , and to make our rime ...
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... acknowledge them to have written 1 better . Questionless we are deprived of a great stock of wit in the loss of Menander among the Greek poets , and of Cæcilius , Afranius , and Varius , among the Romans ; we may guess at Menander's ...
... acknowledge them to have written 1 better . Questionless we are deprived of a great stock of wit in the loss of Menander among the Greek poets , and of Cæcilius , Afranius , and Varius , among the Romans ; we may guess at Menander's ...
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... acknowledge that , to overcome them , we must make use of the advantages we have received from them : 15 but to these assistances we have joined our own in- dustry ; for , had we sat down with a dull imitation of them , we might then ...
... acknowledge that , to overcome them , we must make use of the advantages we have received from them : 15 but to these assistances we have joined our own in- dustry ; for , had we sat down with a dull imitation of them , we might then ...
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... acknowledged himself of Eugenius his opinion concerning the ancients , yet told him , he had for- borne , till his discourse were ended , to ask him why he preferred the English plays above those of other nations ? and whether we ought ...
... acknowledged himself of Eugenius his opinion concerning the ancients , yet told him , he had for- borne , till his discourse were ended , to ask him why he preferred the English plays above those of other nations ? and whether we ought ...
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... acknowledged such , have writ or spoke against it : as for others , they are to be an- swered by that one sentence ... acknowledge that the French contrive their plots more regularly , and observe the laws of comedy , and 25 decorum of ...
... acknowledged such , have writ or spoke against it : as for others , they are to be an- swered by that one sentence ... acknowledge that the French contrive their plots more regularly , and observe the laws of comedy , and 25 decorum of ...
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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.