An Essay of Dramatic PoesyClarendon Press, 1889 - 141 páginas |
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... writing the ' Annus Mirabilis , ' to compose in the following Essay the first piece of good modern English prose on which our literature can pride itself . Charles II , having been much in Paris during his exile , had been captivated by ...
... writing the ' Annus Mirabilis , ' to compose in the following Essay the first piece of good modern English prose on which our literature can pride itself . Charles II , having been much in Paris during his exile , had been captivated by ...
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... writing of which , in this rude and indigested manner wherein your lordship now sees it , served as an amusement 5 to me in the country , when the violence of the last plague had driven me from the town . Seeing then our theatres shut ...
... writing of which , in this rude and indigested manner wherein your lordship now sees it , served as an amusement 5 to me in the country , when the violence of the last plague had driven me from the town . Seeing then our theatres shut ...
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John Dryden Thomas Arnold. since the writing of it ; but whether1 for the better or the worse , I know not : neither indeed is it much material , in an essay , where all I have said is pro- blematical . For the way of writing plays in ...
John Dryden Thomas Arnold. since the writing of it ; but whether1 for the better or the worse , I know not : neither indeed is it much material , in an essay , where all I have said is pro- blematical . For the way of writing plays in ...
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... writing , has generally allowed " of verse ; and in the town it has found favourers of wit and quality . As for your own particular , my lord , you 15 have yet youth and time enough to give part of them to the divertisement of the ...
... writing , has generally allowed " of verse ; and in the town it has found favourers of wit and quality . As for your own particular , my lord , you 15 have yet youth and time enough to give part of them to the divertisement of the ...
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... writing something , in whatever kind it be , which might be an honour to our age and country . And methinks it might have the same effect on you , which Homer tells us the 20 fight of the Greeks and Trojans before the fleet , had on the ...
... writing something , in whatever kind it be , which might be an honour to our age and country . And methinks it might have the same effect on you , which Homer tells us the 20 fight of the Greeks and Trojans before the fleet , had on the ...
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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.