The Critical Works of John Dennis, 2. köideJohns Hopkins Press, 1943 |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 91
Page cxx
... Ancients vs. Moderns will be reasonably clear . In understanding and imagination the moderns are the equal of the ancients , he believed . As for men of extraordinary talents , they are present in every age ; genius is no monopoly of ...
... Ancients vs. Moderns will be reasonably clear . In understanding and imagination the moderns are the equal of the ancients , he believed . As for men of extraordinary talents , they are present in every age ; genius is no monopoly of ...
Page 14
... Ancients ; which contra- dicts the Testimony of his Contemporary , and his familiar Acquaintance Ben Johnson , and of his Successor Milton ; Lo Shakespear , Fancy's sweetest Child , Warbles his native Wood - notes wild . and of Mr ...
... Ancients ; which contra- dicts the Testimony of his Contemporary , and his familiar Acquaintance Ben Johnson , and of his Successor Milton ; Lo Shakespear , Fancy's sweetest Child , Warbles his native Wood - notes wild . and of Mr ...
Page 538
... Ancients , 1 , 331 , 368 ; II , 221- 227 relation to the controversy over the Rules , 11 , 504 ; Spenser's achievement compared with that of the Ancients , 1 , 331 : superiority of the Ancients in epic , tragedy , and ode , 1 , 223 ...
... Ancients , 1 , 331 , 368 ; II , 221- 227 relation to the controversy over the Rules , 11 , 504 ; Spenser's achievement compared with that of the Ancients , 1 , 331 : superiority of the Ancients in epic , tragedy , and ode , 1 , 223 ...
Contents
Introduction | vii |
An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Shakespear 1712 | 1 |
Appendix excerpts and miscellaneousContinued X From the Prologue to Gibraltar 1705 | 39 |
Copyright | |
23 other sections not shown
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
absurd acquainted Action admirable Ancients appear Aristotle Author Beauty believe Ben Johnson Boileau Cæsar call'd Cato Character CHRYSEIS Comedy Comick Poet Conscious Lovers Contempt Coriolanus critic Dennis Dennis's design'd Dramatick Dryden Dunciad endeavour English Epick Essay Fable Faults Fools Friend Genius Gentleman give Grecian Homer Honour Horace Hudibras Imitation Impudence Instruction John Dennis Juba Judgment Julius Cæsar King Letters Liberty Lord Lord Roscommon Love Lover manner Marcia Merit Milton Moral Muse Nature never noble Numbers oblig'd observ'd Opinion Paradise Lost Passage Passion Persons Pharsalia Play pleas'd Poem Poet Poetical Poetry Pope Portius præfacer pretend publick publish'd Qualities Reader Reason Remarks Rhyme ridiculous Roman Rules Satire says Scene Sempronius Sense Sentiments Shakespear shew shewn Sir John Soul Spirit Stage sublime Syphax Taste tell thee thing thou thought thro Tragedy Translation true Truth us'd Verse Virgil Virtue World writ write Wycherley