An Essay of Dramatic PoesyClarendon Press, 1903 - 179 páginas |
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... Greek drama , and several defecis which its greatest admirers cannot deny . Crites makes a brief reply , and then Lisideius ( Sir Charles Sedley ) plunges into the second question , and ardently maintains that the French theatre , which ...
... Greek drama , and several defecis which its greatest admirers cannot deny . Crites makes a brief reply , and then Lisideius ( Sir Charles Sedley ) plunges into the second question , and ardently maintains that the French theatre , which ...
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... Greeks , was by them imparted to the Romans . Then it was that , ' horridus ille Defluxit numerus Saturnius , ' the ... Greek invention had created , took its place . Crites rightly extols the metre and quantity of the ancients ; his ...
... Greeks , was by them imparted to the Romans . Then it was that , ' horridus ille Defluxit numerus Saturnius , ' the ... Greek invention had created , took its place . Crites rightly extols the metre and quantity of the ancients ; his ...
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... Greek metres were unsuited for tra- gedy , and that the iambic trimeter , as ' nearer to com- mon discourse , ' was its proper instrument , so it is quite possible that in modern dramatic verse rhyme may fix the attention too much upon ...
... Greek metres were unsuited for tra- gedy , and that the iambic trimeter , as ' nearer to com- mon discourse , ' was its proper instrument , so it is quite possible that in modern dramatic verse rhyme may fix the attention too much upon ...
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... Greeks and Trojans before the fleet , had on the spirit of Achilles ; who , though he had re- solved not to engage , yet found a martial warmth to steal upon him at the sight of blows , the sound of trumpets , and the cries of fighting ...
... Greeks and Trojans before the fleet , had on the spirit of Achilles ; who , though he had re- solved not to engage , yet found a martial warmth to steal upon him at the sight of blows , the sound of trumpets , and the cries of fighting ...
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... Greeks and Romans than I am : but on the 25 other side , I cannot think so contemptibly of the age in which I live , or so dishonourably of my own country , as not to judge we equal the ancients in most kinds of poesy , and in some ...
... Greeks and Romans than I am : but on the 25 other side , I cannot think so contemptibly of the age in which I live , or so dishonourably of my own country , as not to judge we equal the ancients in most kinds of poesy , and in some ...
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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 67 - ... 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. I cannot say he is every where 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...
Página 159 - 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 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 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 45 - I have commended in the French ; and that is Rollo ", or rather, under the name of Rollo. the Story of Bassianus and Geta in Herodian : there indeed the plot is neither large nor intricate, but just enough to fill the minds of the audience, not to cloy them.
Página 67 - He was the man who of all modern, and perhaps ancient poets, had the largest and most comprehensive soul. All the images of nature were still present to him, and he drew them not laboriously, but luckily: when he describes anything, you more than see it, you feel it too.
Página 133 - And Dryden, in immortal strain, Had raised the Table Round again, But that a ribald King and Court Bade him toil on, to make them sport ; Demanded for their niggard pay, Fit for their souls, a looser lay, Licentious satire, song, and play ; The world defrauded of the high design, Profan'd the God-given strength, and marr'd the lofty line.
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 177 - I am satisfied if it cause delight. For delight is the chief, if not the only, end of poesy. Instruction can be admitted but in the second place, for poesy only instructs as it delights.