An Essay of Dramatic PoesyClarendon Press, 1903 - 179 páginas |
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... person ; and Sir William Lower ... Whenever these poetasters ventured into verse , they displayed such an incompetence as has never before or since disgraced any coterie of considerable writers . Their blank verse was simply inorganic ...
... person ; and Sir William Lower ... Whenever these poetasters ventured into verse , they displayed such an incompetence as has never before or since disgraced any coterie of considerable writers . Their blank verse was simply inorganic ...
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... person amongst our young nobility , on whom the eyes of all men are so much 5 bent . But in the mean time , your lordship may imitate the course of Nature , who gives us the flower before the fruit that I may speak to you in the ...
... person amongst our young nobility , on whom the eyes of all men are so much 5 bent . But in the mean time , your lordship may imitate the course of Nature , who gives us the flower before the fruit that I may speak to you in the ...
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... persons whom their wit and quality have made known to all the town ; and whom I have chose to hide under these borrowed names , that they may not suffer by so ill a relation as I am going to make of their discourse . 3 io 2. Taking then ...
... persons whom their wit and quality have made known to all the town ; and whom I have chose to hide under these borrowed names , that they may not suffer by so ill a relation as I am going to make of their discourse . 3 io 2. Taking then ...
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... person of a sharp judg- 5 ment , and somewhat too delicate a taste in wit , which the world have mistaken in him for ill - nature , said , smiling to us , that if the concernment of this battle ' had not been so exceeding great , he ...
... person of a sharp judg- 5 ment , and somewhat too delicate a taste in wit , which the world have mistaken in him for ill - nature , said , smiling to us , that if the concernment of this battle ' had not been so exceeding great , he ...
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... in some surpass them ; neither know I any reason why I may not be as 1 of a great person , A. 2 think himself very hardly dealt with , A. 3 the Age I live in , A. zealous for the reputation of our age , as we 14 OF DRAMATIC POESY .
... in some surpass them ; neither know I any reason why I may not be as 1 of a great person , A. 2 think himself very hardly dealt with , A. 3 the Age I live in , A. zealous for the reputation of our age , as we 14 OF DRAMATIC POESY .
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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.