 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - English literature - 1808 - 486 pages
...little command of English, whom boduc is full of stately speeches and well sounding phrases, climbing up to the height of Seneca his style, and as full of notable morality, which it doth most delightfully teach, and thereby obtain the very end of poetry." * This... | |
 | James George Barlace - England - 1819 - 408 pages
...full of " stately speeches, and well sounding phrases, climing to the " heighth of Seneca his stile, and as full of notable moralitie, ** which it doth most delightfully teach, and so obtain the very " end of poesie. Yet in truth it is very defectous in the cir" cumstances, which grieves... | |
 | 1820 - 408 pages
...tragedy. Sir Philip Sidney says, it is " full of stately speeches and well-sounding phrases, climbing to the height of Seneca his style, and as full of notable morality, which it doth most delightfully teach." Rymer thinks it might have been a better direction... | |
 | Henry Southern - 1820 - 402 pages
...tragedy. Sir Philip Sidney says, it is " full of stately speeches and well-sounding phrases, climbing to the height of Seneca his style, and as full of notable morality, which it doth most delightfully teach." Rymer thinks it might have been a better direction... | |
 | Books - 1820 - 404 pages
...tragedy. Sir Philip Sidney says, it is '' full of stately speeches and well-sounding phrases, climbing to the height of Seneca his style, and as full of notable morality, which it doth most delightfully teach." Rymer thinks it might have been a better direction... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English drama - 1821 - 374 pages
...says of this tragedy : " Gorboduc is full of stately speeches, and well sounding phrases, climbing to the height of Seneca his style, and as full of notable morality ; which it doth most delightfully teach, and thereby obtain the very end of poetry." And Mr.... | |
 | William Hazlitt - Dramatists, English - 1821 - 380 pages
...says of this tragedy : " Gorboduc is full of stately speeches, and well sounding phrases, climbing to the height of Seneca his style, and as full of notable morality ; which it doth most delightfully teach, and thereby obtain the very end of poetry." And Mr.... | |
 | Books - 1820 - 406 pages
...tragedy. Sir Philip Sidney says, it is " full of stately speeches and well-sounding phrases, climbing to the height of Seneca his style, and as full of notable morality, which it doth most delightfully teach." Rymer thinks it might have been a better direction... | |
 | Anecdotes - 1826 - 370 pages
...for Poetrie," gives this lofty character of it. " It is full of stately speeches, and well-sounding phrases, clyming to the height of Seneca his style,...moralitie, which it doth most delightfully teach, and to obtayne the very end of poesie." Although so much praised, Gorbodac was never popular, " owing,"... | |
 | Reuben Percy - Anecdotes - 1826 - 386 pages
...for Poetrie," gives this lofty character of it. " It is full of stately speeches, and well-sounding phrases, clyming to the height of Seneca his style, and as full of notable muralitie, which it doth most delightfully teach, and so obtayne the very end of poesie." Although... | |
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Phrases, climbing to the height of Seneca his style, and as full of notable morality, which it doth most delightfully teach, and so obtain the very end of Poesie... 
