An Essay of Dramatic PoesyClarendon Press, 1903 - 179 páginas |
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Página viii
... passages , and that Jonson is not without them . At this point Eugenius breaks in with the question , Whether Ben Jonson ... passage ( p . 67 ) . He then examines the genius of Jonson with reference to many special points , and gives an ...
... passages , and that Jonson is not without them . At this point Eugenius breaks in with the question , Whether Ben Jonson ... passage ( p . 67 ) . He then examines the genius of Jonson with reference to many special points , and gives an ...
Página xiii
... passages are given us such as— There is no vice so simple but assumes Some mark of virtue on his outward parts : How many cowards , whose hearts are all as false As stairs of sand , wear yet upon their chins The beards of Hercules and ...
... passages are given us such as— There is no vice so simple but assumes Some mark of virtue on his outward parts : How many cowards , whose hearts are all as false As stairs of sand , wear yet upon their chins The beards of Hercules and ...
Página xv
... passage of arms ripen into a formal quarrel . From later editions of The Indian Emperor he suppressed the preface , and forbore ever to publish it in a separate form . It was not again printed till after his death . Three editions of ...
... passage of arms ripen into a formal quarrel . From later editions of The Indian Emperor he suppressed the preface , and forbore ever to publish it in a separate form . It was not again printed till after his death . Three editions of ...
Página xvi
... passages are therefore easily selected and retained . Thus the description of Night in the Indian Emperor , and the rise and fall of empire in the Conquest of Granada , are more frequently repeated than any lines in All for Love or Don ...
... passages are therefore easily selected and retained . Thus the description of Night in the Indian Emperor , and the rise and fall of empire in the Conquest of Granada , are more frequently repeated than any lines in All for Love or Don ...
Página xxii
... passage should be read , but the following only can here be quoted : - Shakespeare was naturally addicted to rhyme , though , if we put aside the Sonnets , we must admit that in rhyme he never did any- thing worth Marlow's Hero and ...
... passage should be read , but the following only can here be quoted : - Shakespeare was naturally addicted to rhyme , though , if we put aside the Sonnets , we must admit that in rhyme he never did any- thing worth Marlow's Hero and ...
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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.