Literary Criticism of John DrydenUniversity of Nebraska Press, 1967 - 174 pages |
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Page 113
... thoughts and words ; or , in other terms , thoughts and words elegantly adapted to the subject . If our critics will join issue on this definition , that we may convenire in aliquo tertio [ agree upon some 21. pictoribus atque poetis ...
... thoughts and words ; or , in other terms , thoughts and words elegantly adapted to the subject . If our critics will join issue on this definition , that we may convenire in aliquo tertio [ agree upon some 21. pictoribus atque poetis ...
Page 120
... thoughts and words , which are the fourth and fifth beauties of tragedy , are certainly more noble and more poetical in the English than in the Greek , which must be proved by compar- ing them somewhat more equitably than Mr. Rymer has ...
... thoughts and words , which are the fourth and fifth beauties of tragedy , are certainly more noble and more poetical in the English than in the Greek , which must be proved by compar- ing them somewhat more equitably than Mr. Rymer has ...
Page 152
... thoughts , and ornament of words : Homer was rapid in his thoughts , and took all the liberties , both of numbers and of expressions , which his language , and the age in which he lived , allowed him : Homer's invention was more copious ...
... thoughts , and ornament of words : Homer was rapid in his thoughts , and took all the liberties , both of numbers and of expressions , which his language , and the age in which he lived , allowed him : Homer's invention was more copious ...
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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acknowledge action admire allowed already Ancients answer appear argument Aristotle audience beauties beginning better betwixt called cause characters Chaucer comedy compass concernment conclude Corneille criticism defend delight discourse Dryden English equal errors Essay example excellent expression faults Fletcher follow French give given greater greatest Greek Homer humour imagination imitation Jonson judge judgment kind language latter least leave less lines lived manners means move nature never observed occasion opinion passions perfection perhaps persons pity Plautus play pleased plot poem poesy poet poetry practice preface present probability produce proper prove raised reader reason relation represented rest rhyme rule scene sense serious Shakespeare sometimes speak stage story supposed tell things thoughts tragedy translated true verse Virgil virtue whole wholly writ write written