English Critical Essays: (sixteenth, Seventeenth, and Eighteenth Centuries)Edmund David Jones H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1930 - 460 Seiten |
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... never affirmeth . The poet never maketh any circles about your imagination , to conjure you to believe for true what he writes . He citeth not authorities of other histories , but even for his entry calleth the sweet Muses to inspire ...
... never affirmeth . The poet never maketh any circles about your imagination , to conjure you to believe for true what he writes . He citeth not authorities of other histories , but even for his entry calleth the sweet Muses to inspire ...
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... never performs so much as it promises , me- thinks men should never give more credit unto it . For , let us change never so often , we cannot change man ; our imperfections must still run on with us . And therefore the wiser nations ...
... never performs so much as it promises , me- thinks men should never give more credit unto it . For , let us change never so often , we cannot change man ; our imperfections must still run on with us . And therefore the wiser nations ...
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... never find the audience favourable to this kind of writing , till we could produce as good plays in rhyme , as Ben ... never equal them , but they could never equal them- selves , were they to rise and write again . We acknowledge them ...
... never find the audience favourable to this kind of writing , till we could produce as good plays in rhyme , as Ben ... never equal them , but they could never equal them- selves , were they to rise and write again . We acknowledge them ...
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action admiration Aeneas Aeneid ancients Aristotle beauties Ben Jonson better betwixt blank verse character Chaucer comedy commendation composition conceit Crites critics delight discourse divine doth Dryden English epic epic poetry Eugenius Euripides excellent fable Faerie Queene fame father fault French genius give Gothic Greek hath heroic Homer honour Horace humour Iliad imagination imitation invention Jonson judge judgement kind labour language Latin learning lines Lisideius lived manner Milton mind modern Muse nature never noble numbers observed Ovid Paradise Lost passion perfection perhaps persons philosopher Pindar Plato Plautus play plot poem Poesy poet poetical poetry praise prose reader reason rhyme Roman rules scene sense sentiments Shakespeare Silent Woman sometimes Sophocles speak spirit stage stanza syllables things thought tion tragedy translated trochee true truth Virgil virtue words write written