Dramatic EssaysJ.M. Dent & sons, Limited, 1928 - 299 pages |
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Page 78
... true physician : both of them may attain their ends ; but what the one performs by hazard , the other does by skill . And as the artist is often unsuccessful , while the mountebank succeeds ; so farces more commonly take the people than ...
... true physician : both of them may attain their ends ; but what the one performs by hazard , the other does by skill . And as the artist is often unsuccessful , while the mountebank succeeds ; so farces more commonly take the people than ...
Page 256
... true , the colouring is the first beauty that strikes the eye . Spenser and Milton are the nearest in English to Virgil and Horace in the Latin ; and I have endeavoured to form my style by imitating their masters . I will further own to ...
... true , the colouring is the first beauty that strikes the eye . Spenser and Milton are the nearest in English to Virgil and Horace in the Latin ; and I have endeavoured to form my style by imitating their masters . I will further own to ...
Page 263
... true one comes in sight . I will not excuse , but justify myself , for one pretended crime , with which I am liable to be charged by false critics , not only in this translation , but in many of my original poems ; that I latinise too ...
... true one comes in sight . I will not excuse , but justify myself , for one pretended crime , with which I am liable to be charged by false critics , not only in this translation , but in many of my original poems ; that I latinise too ...
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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