Critical Essays of the Seventeenth Century ...: vol.II, 1650-1685; vol.III, 1685-1700Joel Elias Spingarn Clarendon Press, 1908 |
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Aeneid ancient Aristotle Authors Bacon BEN JONSON call'd Cicero classical comedy conception Crit criticism diuine doth Dryden eloquence England English Epistle Essay euen euery Euripides excellent Fable fancy fitnesse France Francis Bacon French generall giue Greek Gregory Smith hath haue Heinsius Henry Hesiod Historian History Homer honour Horace humour Iliads imitation Invention Italian Jonson judgement Julius Scaliger King language Latin learned lesse letters literary loue Lucan matter meane meere mind modern naturall nature noble Petrarch philosophy phrase Plato Plautus Plutarch Poems Poesie poetic poetry Poets preface Prince prose quæ Quintilian quod Reader rimes risum rules Rymer saith sayes Scaliger Sect selfe sense shew speake SPINGARN spirit stile style Tacitus taste themselues theory thereof things thought tongue Tragedy translation treatise Truth verse vertue Virgil vnder vnderstanding vpon words write
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Página 195 - ... an inward prompting which now grew daily upon me, that by labour and intent study, (which I take to be my portion in this life,) joined with the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps leave something so written to aftertimes as they should not willingly let it die.
Página 19 - I loved the man, and do honour his memory, on this side idolatry, as much as any. He was (indeed) honest, and of an open and free nature...
Página xi - It is, moreover, evident from what has been said, that it is not the function of the poet to relate what has happened, but what may happen, — what is possible according to the law of probability or necessity.
Página 26 - Yet there happened in my time one noble speaker, who was full of gravity in his speaking. His language (where he could spare or pass by a jest) was nobly censorious. No man ever spake more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered. No member of his speech, but consisted of his own graces. His hearers could not cough, or look aside from him, without loss. He commanded where he spoke ; and had his judges angry and pleased at his devotion.
Página 199 - Memory and her siren daughters, but by devout prayer to that Eternal Spirit who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his Seraphim with the hallowed fire of his altar, to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases.
Página 197 - ... to inbreed and cherish in a great people the seeds of virtue and public civility, to allay the perturbations of the mind, and set the affections in right tune; to celebrate in glorious and lofty hymns the throne and equipage of God's almightiness, and what he works and what he suffers to be wrought with high providence in his church; to sing the victorious agonies of martyrs and saints, the deeds and triumphs of just and pious nations doing valiantly through faith against the enemies of Christ;...
Página xvi - To conclude of him; as he has given us the most correct plays, so in the precepts which he has laid down in his Discoveries, we have as many and profitable rules for perfecting the stage, as any wherewith the French can furnish us.
Página 207 - THE measure is English heroic verse without rime, as that of Homer in Greek, and of Virgil in Latin — rime being no necessary adjunct or true ornament of poem or good verse, in longer works especially, but the invention of a barbarous age, to set off wretched matter and lame metre...
Página 207 - TRAGEDY, as it was anciently composed, hath been ever held the gravest, moralest, and most profitable of all other poems ; therefore said by Aristotle to be of power, by raising pity and fear, or terror, to purge the mind of those and such like passions, that is, to temper and reduce them to just measure with a kind of delight, stirred up by reading or seeing those passions well imitated.
Página 20 - His wit was in his own power, would the rule of it had been so too. Many times he fell into those things, could not escape laughter : as when he said in the person of Caesar, one speaking to him,