 | Robert McWilliam - 1900 - 644 páginas
...Shakespeare I must acknowledge him the more correct poet, but Shakespeare the greater genius. Shakespeare was the Homer or father of our dramatic poets; Jonson was the Virgil, the pattern of elaborate writing: I admire him, but I love Shakespeare. In 1667 Dryden wrote ' The Maiden Queen,'... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer - 1900 - 462 páginas
...Shakespeare, I must acknowledge him the most correct poet, but Shakespeare the greater wit. Shakespeare was the Homer, or father of our dramatic poets; Jonson was the Virgil, the pattern of elaborate writing: I admire him, but I love Shakespeare. To conclude of him: as he has given us the... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer - 1902 - 448 páginas
...Shakespeare, I must acknowledge him the most correct poet, but Shakespeare the greater wit. Shakespeare was the Homer, or father of our dramatic poets; Jonson was the Virgil, the pattern of elaborate writing: I admire him, but I love Shakespeare. To conclude of him: as he has given us the... | |
 | William Peacock - 1903 - 408 páginas
...Shakespeare, I must acknowledge him the most correct poet, but Shakespeare the greater wit. Shakespeare was the Homer, or father of our dramatic poets; Jonson was the Virgil, the pattern of elaborate writing: I admire him, but I love Shakespeare.—Essay of Dramatic Poesy. SAMUEL PEPYS 1633-1703... | |
 | Bridget Ellen Burke - 1904 - 268 páginas
...acknowledge him the more correct poet, but Shakespeare the greater wit. Shakespeare was the Homer, or the father, of our dramatic poets; Jonson was the Virgil, the pattern of elaborate writing. I admire him, but I love Shakespeare. OUR DEBT TO THE DEAD HENRY EDWARD CARDINAL... | |
 | William Edward Bohn - 1907 - 98 páginas
...Shakespeare, I must acknowledge him the more correct poet, but Shakespeare the greater wit. Shakespeare was the Homer, or father of our dramatic poets ; Jonson was the Virgil, the pattern of elaborate writing; I admire him, but I love Shakespeare." 2 Here we have in 1665 the main idea of the... | |
 | 1892 - 1058 páginas
...Shakespeare, I must acknowledge him the more correct poet, but Shakespeare the greater wit. Shakespeare was the Homer, or father of our dramatic poets ; Jonson was the Virgil, the pattern of elaborate writing; I admire him, but I love Shakespeare." * Here we have in 1665 the main idea of the... | |
 | Otto Diede - 1912 - 152 páginas
...Shakespeare, I must acknowledge him the more correct poet, but Shakespeare the greater wit. Shakespeare was the Homer, or father of our dramatic poets; Jonson was the Virgil, the pattern of elaborate writing; I admire him, vbut I love Shakespeare3)." Dryden weist, auf seine Zeit übergehend,... | |
 | Robert Maynard Leonard - 1912 - 788 páginas
...Shakespeare, I must acknowledge him the more correct poet, but Shakespeare the greater wit. Shakespeare was the Homer, or father of our dramatic poets ; Jonson was the Virgil, the pattern of elaborate writing ; I admire him, but I love Shakespeare. J. DEYDEN. — An Essay of Dramatic Poesy.... | |
 | William Henry Hudson - 1914 - 362 páginas
...Latin as he found them: wherein, though he learnedly followed their language, he 'did not enough cpmply with the idiom of ours. If I would compare him with...dramatic poets; Jonson was the Virgil, the pattern of elaborate writing; I admire him, but I love Shakspeare. To conclude of him; as he has given us the... | |
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To conclude of him; as he has given us the most correct plays, so in the precepts which he has laid down in his Discoveries, we have as many and profitable rules for perfecting the stage, as any wherewith the French can furnish us. 
