An Essay of Dramatic PoesyClarendon Press, 1889 - 141 páginas |
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Página vi
... stage altogether . Nevertheless his original contention , however under the pressure of dejection , and the sense perhaps of flagging powers , he may afterwards have been willing to abandon it , —cannot be lightly set aside as either ...
... stage altogether . Nevertheless his original contention , however under the pressure of dejection , and the sense perhaps of flagging powers , he may afterwards have been willing to abandon it , —cannot be lightly set aside as either ...
Página vii
... stage , ' partly also on the beauty of their rhyme . Neander ( Dryden ) takes up the defence of the English stage , and tries to show that it is superior to the French at every point . ' we have English precedents PREFACE . vii.
... stage , ' partly also on the beauty of their rhyme . Neander ( Dryden ) takes up the defence of the English stage , and tries to show that it is superior to the French at every point . ' we have English precedents PREFACE . vii.
Página viii
... stage as a whole he will not allow a position of inferiority ; for ' our nation can never want in any age such who are able to dispute the empire of wit with any people in the universe . ' For the verse itself , ' he says , Crites now ...
... stage as a whole he will not allow a position of inferiority ; for ' our nation can never want in any age such who are able to dispute the empire of wit with any people in the universe . ' For the verse itself , ' he says , Crites now ...
Página x
... stage now , and that those of later dramatists have not been successful , -might lead us to the conclusion that Shakspere triumphed rather Lin spite of blank verse than because of it . Rhyme is merely one of the devices to which the ...
... stage now , and that those of later dramatists have not been successful , -might lead us to the conclusion that Shakspere triumphed rather Lin spite of blank verse than because of it . Rhyme is merely one of the devices to which the ...
Página xiv
... audiences , with the music and the charm of rhyme . ― It 1 Of course I am not speaking of chamber pieces , but of plays intended for the stage . The Defence of the Essay of Dramatic Poesy appeared later xiv PREFACE .
... audiences , with the music and the charm of rhyme . ― It 1 Of course I am not speaking of chamber pieces , but of plays intended for the stage . The Defence of the Essay of Dramatic Poesy appeared later xiv PREFACE .
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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.