Dryden: A SelectionMethuen, 1978 - 632 pages |
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Page 524
... rhyme is proper for the stage . I will not dispute how ancient it hath been among us to write this way ; perhaps our ancestors knew no better till Shakespeare's time . I will grant it was not altogether left by him , and that Fletcher ...
... rhyme is proper for the stage . I will not dispute how ancient it hath been among us to write this way ; perhaps our ancestors knew no better till Shakespeare's time . I will grant it was not altogether left by him , and that Fletcher ...
Page 525
... rhyme . These numbers therefore are fittest for a play ; the others for a paper of verses or a poem ; blank verse being as much below them as rhyme is improper for the drama . And if it be objected that neither are blank verses made ex ...
... rhyme . These numbers therefore are fittest for a play ; the others for a paper of verses or a poem ; blank verse being as much below them as rhyme is improper for the drama . And if it be objected that neither are blank verses made ex ...
Page 529
... rhyme to be improper . Farther , as to that quotation of Aristotle , our couplet verses may be rendered as near prose as blank verse itself , by using those advantages I lately named , as breaks in a hemistich , or running the sense ...
... rhyme to be improper . Farther , as to that quotation of Aristotle , our couplet verses may be rendered as near prose as blank verse itself , by using those advantages I lately named , as breaks in a hemistich , or running the sense ...
Contents
Upon the Death of the Lord Hastings 37 | 3 |
Heroic Stanzas to the Memory of Oliver Cromwell | 14 |
To Dr Charleton | 28 |
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action ALEXAS Ancients ANTONY appear arms bear beauty better cause characters CLEOPATRA comedy concernment court dear death DOLABELLA DORALICE Dryden English Enter eyes fate father fear fire foes follow force fortune French give hand happy haste hear heart Heav'n honour hope Italy judge kind king laws least leave LEONIDAS less live look lord lost manners means MELANTHA mind move nature never observed once pains PALAMEDE PALMYRA pass passions Persius persons pity play pleased plot poem poet poor praise prince raise reason rest RHODOPHIL rhyme Roman rule satire scene sense side soul speak stage stand sure tell thee things thou thought tragedy translation true turn VENTIDIUS verse virtue wife write young
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