An Essay of Dramatic Poesy: A Defence of an Essay of Dramatic PoesyBobbs-Merrill, 1965 - 119 páginas This is an OCR edition without illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from GeneralBooksClub.com. You can also preview excerpts from the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Original Published by: Clarendon Press in 1889 in 177 pages; Subjects: Drama; Drama / General; Drama / American; Drama / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Literary Criticism / General; Literary Criticism / Semiotics & Theory; Literary Criticism / Drama; Literary Criticism / Poetry; Performing Arts / Theater / Playwriting; Poetry / American / General; Poetry / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; |
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Página 43
... given , that all incredible actions were removed ; but , whether custom has so insinuated itself into our country- men , or nature has so formed them to fierceness , I know not ; but they will scarcely suffer combats and other objects ...
... given , that all incredible actions were removed ; but , whether custom has so insinuated itself into our country- men , or nature has so formed them to fierceness , I know not ; but they will scarcely suffer combats and other objects ...
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... given the Errata , I wish he would have enlarged them only a few sheets more , and then he would have spared me the labour of an answer : for this cursed printer is so given to mis- takes , that there is scarce a sentence in the preface ...
... given the Errata , I wish he would have enlarged them only a few sheets more , and then he would have spared me the labour of an answer : for this cursed printer is so given to mis- takes , that there is scarce a sentence in the preface ...
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... given him the example , by the advice of Maecenas , who recommended Virgil and Horace to him ; whose praises helped to make him popular while he was alive , and after his death have made him precious to pos- terity . As for the religion ...
... given him the example , by the advice of Maecenas , who recommended Virgil and Horace to him ; whose praises helped to make him popular while he was alive , and after his death have made him precious to pos- terity . As for the religion ...
Contenido
An Essay of Dramatic Poesy | 3 |
A Defence of an Essay of Dramatic Poesy | 73 |
Preface to the Fables | 94 |
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Términos y frases comunes
acknowledge action admiration Aeneid answer argument Aristotle Art of Poetry audience Bartholomew Fair beauties Ben Johnson Berkeley betwixt blank verse Boccace CALIFORNIA LIBRARY Canterbury Tales Catiline characters Chaucer Comedy commend compass concernment confess Corneille Crites criticism delight discourse Dramatic Poesy Duke of Lerma endeavour English epic Essay of Dramatic Eugenius excellent fancy farther faults Fletcher French genius greater Homer honour Horace humour ibid imagination imitation of Nature John Dryden Johnson judge judgment kind language Latin leave Lisideius lived Neander never numbers observed opinion Ovid passions persons Plautus pleasing plot poem poet Preface prose prove reader reason represented rest rhyme Roman rule satire scene Sejanus Seneca sense serious plays Shakespeare Silent Woman speak stage story supposed Tale Terence things thoughts tion Tis true tragedies translated truth Unity of Place UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA unnatural Velleius Paterculus Virgil words writ write