Dramatic EssaysJ.M. Dent & sons, Limited, 1928 - 299 pages |
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Page 73
... taken up in transporting the persons of the drama , with analogy to reason ; and in that analogy , or resemblance of fiction to truth , consists the excellency of the play . For what else concerns the unity of place , I have already ...
... taken up in transporting the persons of the drama , with analogy to reason ; and in that analogy , or resemblance of fiction to truth , consists the excellency of the play . For what else concerns the unity of place , I have already ...
Page 128
... taken is the same , grounded upon friendship ; and the quarrel of two virtuous men , raised by natural degrees to the extremity of passion , is conducted in all three to the declination of the same passion , and concludes with a warm ...
... taken is the same , grounded upon friendship ; and the quarrel of two virtuous men , raised by natural degrees to the extremity of passion , is conducted in all three to the declination of the same passion , and concludes with a warm ...
Page 267
... taken : but those holiday authors writ for pleasure ; and only showed us what they could have done if they would have taken pains to perform the whole . Be pleased , my Lord , to accept , with your wonted goodness , this unworthy ...
... taken : but those holiday authors writ for pleasure ; and only showed us what they could have done if they would have taken pains to perform the whole . Be pleased , my Lord , to accept , with your wonted goodness , this unworthy ...
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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