English Critical Essays (sixteenth, Seventeenth, and Eighteenth Centuries) Selected and Ed. by Edmund D. JonesEdmund David Jones H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1940 - 460 pages |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 48
Page 383
... perhaps the censor was not able to have committed ; but a gay and vigorous dissertation , where delight is mingled with instruction , and where the author proves his right of judgement by his power of performance . The different manner ...
... perhaps the censor was not able to have committed ; but a gay and vigorous dissertation , where delight is mingled with instruction , and where the author proves his right of judgement by his power of performance . The different manner ...
Page 399
... perhaps afford Dryden's first attempt at those penetrating re- marks on human nature , for which he seems to have been peculiarly formed : Let envy then those crimes within you see , From which the happy never must be free ; Envy that ...
... perhaps afford Dryden's first attempt at those penetrating re- marks on human nature , for which he seems to have been peculiarly formed : Let envy then those crimes within you see , From which the happy never must be free ; Envy that ...
Page 435
... Perhaps no nation ever produced a writer that enriched his language with such variety of models . To him we owe the improve- ment , perhaps the completion of our metre , the refinement of our language , and much of the correctness of ...
... Perhaps no nation ever produced a writer that enriched his language with such variety of models . To him we owe the improve- ment , perhaps the completion of our metre , the refinement of our language , and much of the correctness of ...
Contents
SIR PHILIP SIDNEY 155486 | 1 |
THOMAS CAMPION 15671620 | 65 |
SAMUEL DANIEL 15621619 | 72 |
11 other sections not shown
Other editions - View all
English Critical Essays (Sixteenth, Seventeenth, and Eighteenth Centuries ... Edmund D. Jones No preview available - 2018 |
English Critical Essays (Sixteenth, Seventeenth, and Eighteenth Centuries ... Edmund David Jones No preview available - 2016 |
Common terms and phrases
action admiration Aeneas Aeneid ancients Aristotle beauties Ben Jonson better betwixt blank verse character Chaucer comedy commendation composition conceit Crites critics delight discourse divine doth Dryden English epic epic poetry Eugenius Euripides excellent fable Faerie Queene fame father fault French genius give Gothic Greek hath heroic Homer honour Horace humour Iliad imagination imitation invention Jonson judge judgement kind labour language Latin learning lines Lisideius manner Milton mind modern Muse nature never noble numbers observed Ovid Paradise Lost passion perfection perhaps persons philosopher Pindar Plato Plautus play plot Plutarch poem Poesy poet poetical poetry praise prose reader reason rhyme Roman rules scene sense sentiments Shakespeare Silent Woman sometimes Sophocles speak spirit stage stanza syllables things thought tion tragedy translated trochee true truth Virgil virtue words write written