Dramatic EssaysJ.M. Dent & sons, Limited, 1928 - 299 pages |
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... allowed a poet , you take from him not only his licence of quidlibet audendi , but you tie him up in a straiter compass than you would a philosopher . This is indeed Musas colere severiores . You would have him follow nature , but he ...
... allowed a poet , you take from him not only his licence of quidlibet audendi , but you tie him up in a straiter compass than you would a philosopher . This is indeed Musas colere severiores . You would have him follow nature , but he ...
Page 127
... allowed for every motion . I need not say that I have refined his language , which before was obsolete ; but I am willing to acknowledge , that as I have often drawn his English nearer to our times , so I have sometimes conformed my own ...
... allowed for every motion . I need not say that I have refined his language , which before was obsolete ; but I am willing to acknowledge , that as I have often drawn his English nearer to our times , so I have sometimes conformed my own ...
Page 276
... allowed him . Homer's invention was more copious , Virgil's more confined ; so that if Homer had not led the way , it was not in Virgil to have begun heroic poetry ; for nothing can be more evident than that the Roman poem is but the ...
... allowed him . Homer's invention was more copious , Virgil's more confined ; so that if Homer had not led the way , it was not in Virgil to have begun heroic poetry ; for nothing can be more evident than that the Roman poem is but the ...
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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