Dramatic EssaysJ.M. Dent & sons, Limited, 1928 - 299 pages |
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Page 193
... Dido well and naturally in the violence of her passions , yet he must yield in that to the Myrrha , the Byblis , the Althaea , of Ovid ; for , as great an admirer of him as I am , I must acknowledge that if I see not more of their souls ...
... Dido well and naturally in the violence of her passions , yet he must yield in that to the Myrrha , the Byblis , the Althaea , of Ovid ; for , as great an admirer of him as I am , I must acknowledge that if I see not more of their souls ...
Page 234
... Dido contemporaries ; for it is certain that the hero lived almost two hundred years before the building of Carthage . One who imitates Boccalini says that Virgil was accused before Apollo for this error . The God soon found that he was ...
... Dido contemporaries ; for it is certain that the hero lived almost two hundred years before the building of Carthage . One who imitates Boccalini says that Virgil was accused before Apollo for this error . The God soon found that he was ...
Page 236
... Dido and Æneas . He was in banishment when he wrote those verses , which I cite from his letter to Augustus : You , Sir , " says he , " have sent me into exile for writing my Art of Love and my wanton Elegies ; yet your own poet was ...
... Dido and Æneas . He was in banishment when he wrote those verses , which I cite from his letter to Augustus : You , Sir , " says he , " have sent me into exile for writing my Art of Love and my wanton Elegies ; yet your own poet was ...
Contents
EPISTLE DEDICATORY TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE CHARLES Lord | 1 |
A DEFENCE OF AN ESSAY OF DRAMATIC POESY | 60 |
ON COMEDY Farce and TRAGEDY | 77 |
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