An Essay of Dramatic PoesyClarendon Press, 1889 - 141 páginas |
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... observe , that none are very violent against it , but those who either have not attempted it , or who have succeeded ill in their attempt . It is enough for me to have your lordship's example for my excuse in that little which I have ...
... observe , that none are very violent against it , but those who either have not attempted it , or who have succeeded ill in their attempt . It is enough for me to have your lordship's example for my excuse in that little which I have ...
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... observe how near the water they stoop , how many proffers they make to dip , and yet how seldom they touch it ; and when they do , it is but the surface : they skim over it but to catch a gnat , and then mount into the 15 air and leave ...
... observe how near the water they stoop , how many proffers they make to dip , and yet how seldom they touch it ; and when they do , it is but the surface : they skim over it but to catch a gnat , and then mount into the 15 air and leave ...
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... observed of arts and sciences , that in one and the same century they have arrived to great perfection ; n and no wonder , since every age has a kind of uni- versal genius , which inclines those that live in it to some particular ...
... observed of arts and sciences , that in one and the same century they have arrived to great perfection ; n and no wonder , since every age has a kind of uni- versal genius , which inclines those that live in it to some particular ...
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... observed in every regular play ; namely , of Time , Place , and Action . ' The unity of time they comprehend in twenty - four hours , the compass of a natural day , or as near as it 30 can be contrived ; and the reason of it is obvious ...
... observed in every regular play ; namely , of Time , Place , and Action . ' The unity of time they comprehend in twenty - four hours , the compass of a natural day , or as near as it 30 can be contrived ; and the reason of it is obvious ...
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... observed by the ancients , most of their plays will witness ; you see them in their tragedies , ( wherein to follow this rule , is certainly most difficult , ) from the very be- 25 ginning of their plays , falling close into that part ...
... observed by the ancients , most of their plays will witness ; you see them in their tragedies , ( wherein to follow this rule , is certainly most difficult , ) from the very be- 25 ginning of their plays , falling close into that part ...
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action admiration ancients appear argument Aristotle audience B.A. Extra fcap beauty Ben Johnson betwixt blank verse C. A. BUCHHEIM catachresis Catiline characters comedy compass concernment contrived Corneille Crites discourse dispute drama Dramatic Poesy Dramatick Dryden Duke of Lerma Edited by C. A. English errour ESSAY OF DRAMATIC Eugenius Euripides fancy farther favour Fletcher French poets German give Greek GUSTAVE MASSON honour Horace humour imagine imitation of nature Johnson judge judgment Julius Cæsar kind language leave Lisideius Lord Malone ment modern Molière Neander never observed opinion Ovid passions perfection persons Plautus plot poem poet prose quæ reason represented rest rhyme rule scene Scornful Lady Sejanus Seneca serious plays Shakspeare shew Silent Woman Sir Robert Howard speak stage suppose Terence theatre thing thoughts Tis true tragedy twenty-four unity of place unnatural words writ writing
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Página 110 - 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 41 - ... 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 41 - 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 43 - 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 44 - 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. 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 3 - 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 9 - Lisideius, after some modest denials, at last confessed he had a rude notion of it; indeed, rather a description than a definition; but which served to guide him in his private thoughts, when he was to make a judgment of what others writ: that he conceived a play ought to be a just and lively image of human nature,* representing its passions and humors, and the changes of fortune* to which it is subject, for the delight and instruction of mankind...
Página 41 - French plays, when translated, have, or ever can succeed on the English stage. For, if you consider the plots, our own are fuller of variety; if the writing, ours are more quick and fuller of spirit...
Página 42 - 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.
Página 81 - I confess my chief endeavours are to delight the age in which I live. If the humour of this be for low comedy, small accidents, and raillery, I will force my genius to obey it, though with more reputation I could write in verse.