Literary Criticism of John DrydenUniversity of Nebraska Press, 1967 - 174 pages |
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... languages being dead , and many of the customs and little accidents on which it depended lost to us , we are not ... language , yet leaves an impression of the wit upon our souls : but this happens seldom in him ; in Plautus oftener ...
... languages being dead , and many of the customs and little accidents on which it depended lost to us , we are not ... language , yet leaves an impression of the wit upon our souls : but this happens seldom in him ; in Plautus oftener ...
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... language in them arrived to its highest perfection : what words have since been taken in , are rather superfluous than necessary . Their plays are now the most pleasant and frequent entertainments of the stage ; two of theirs being ...
... language in them arrived to its highest perfection : what words have since been taken in , are rather superfluous than necessary . Their plays are now the most pleasant and frequent entertainments of the stage ; two of theirs being ...
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... language . Terence was not only known to translate Menander ( which he avows also in his prologues ) , but was said also to be helped in those translations by Scipio the African and Laelius . And Tasso , the most excellent of modern ...
... language . Terence was not only known to translate Menander ( which he avows also in his prologues ) , but was said also to be helped in those translations by Scipio the African and Laelius . And Tasso , the most excellent of modern ...
Contents
A Defence of An Essay of Dramatic Poesy 1668 | 70 |
Preface to An Evenings Love 1671 | 90 |
Heads of an Answer to Rymer 1677 | 115 |
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