Selections from Dryden: Poetry and ProseMethuen & Company, 1932 - 211 pages |
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Page 130
... never see in any of their plays , a scene changed in the middle of an act . If the act begins in a garden , a street , or chamber , ' tis ended in the same place ; and , that you may know it to be the same , the stage is so supplied ...
... never see in any of their plays , a scene changed in the middle of an act . If the act begins in a garden , a street , or chamber , ' tis ended in the same place ; and , that you may know it to be the same , the stage is so supplied ...
Page 132
... never see one of those plays which are now written , but it increases my admiration of the Ancients . And yet I must acknowledge further , that to admire them as we ought , we should understand them better than we do . Doubtless many ...
... never see one of those plays which are now written , but it increases my admiration of the Ancients . And yet I must acknowledge further , that to admire them as we ought , we should understand them better than we do . Doubtless many ...
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... never equal them , but they could never equal them- selves , were they to rise and write again . We acknow- ledge them our fathers in wit , but they have ruined their estates themselves before they came to their children's hands . There ...
... never equal them , but they could never equal them- selves , were they to rise and write again . We acknow- ledge them our fathers in wit , but they have ruined their estates themselves before they came to their children's hands . There ...
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TO MY DEAR FRIEND MR CONGREVE ON | 13 |
TO THE MEMORY OF MR OLDHAM | 88 |
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