Plato to Alexander Pope: Backgrounds of Modern CriticismWalter Sutton, Vivian Sutton Odyssey Press, 1966 - 243 pages |
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Page 69
... audience , the art which imitates anything and everything is mani- festly most unrefined . The audience is supposed to be too dull to com- prehend unless something of their own is thrown in by the perform- ers , who therefore indulge in ...
... audience , the art which imitates anything and everything is mani- festly most unrefined . The audience is supposed to be too dull to com- prehend unless something of their own is thrown in by the perform- ers , who therefore indulge in ...
Page 192
... audience , and that is many times the ruin of the play , for , being once let pass without attention , the audience can never recover themselves to understand the plot ; and indeed it is somewhat unreasonable that they should be put to ...
... audience , and that is many times the ruin of the play , for , being once let pass without attention , the audience can never recover themselves to understand the plot ; and indeed it is somewhat unreasonable that they should be put to ...
Page 197
... audience with a speech of a hundred or two hundred lines . I deny not but this may suit well enough with the French , for as we , who are a more sullen people , come to be diverted at our plays , so they , who are of an airy and gay ...
... audience with a speech of a hundred or two hundred lines . I deny not but this may suit well enough with the French , for as we , who are a more sullen people , come to be diverted at our plays , so they , who are of an airy and gay ...
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action admiration Aeschylus Ancients Aristotle audience beauty Ben Jonson better blank verse called character comedy Crites critics delight Demosthenes diction divine doth dramatic Dryden English epic poetry Eugenius Euripides excellent expression eyes father fault French genius give Glaucon Greek hath Hesiod Homer honor Horace humor iambic Iliad imagine imitation inspiration John Dryden Jonson judge judgment kind knowledge language laughter learning Lisideius living Longinus matter mean metaphors meter mind modern Muse nature Neander neoclassical never observed Odyssey passions perfect persons philosopher pity Plato Plautus play plot poem poesy poet poet's poetic Polygnotus praise proper prose Quintilian reason rhapsode rhyme rules scene sense Silent Woman Socrates song Sophocles soul sound speak speech stage style sublimity things thought tion tragedy tragic tragicomedies true truth unity virtue whole words writ write Xenophon