| John Dryden, Walter Scott - English literature - 1808 - 486 pages
...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 is a mistake. Marlow, and several other dramatic authors,... | |
| Walter Scott - English drama - 1810 - 618 pages
...Gorboduc is full of stately speeches, and well sounding phrases, climbing to the heighth 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 Pope was of opinion, " that the writers of the succeeding... | |
| Walter Scott - English drama - 1810 - 620 pages
...of stately speeches, , and well sounding phrases, climbing to the hrighth of Seneca his style, aud as full of notable morality; which it doth most delightfully teach, and thereby obtain the very end of poetry." And Mr Pope was of opinion, " thai the writers of the succeeding... | |
| David Erskine Baker - English drama - 1812 - 430 pages
...acknowledged judge of literature. Sir Philip Sidney. " Iti1 " (says he) full of stately speeches, " well-sounding phrases, climbing '' to the height of Seneca's style, " and as full of notable moraliiv, SAD S At " which it doth most delightfully •" teach, and so obtain the very end " of poetry."... | |
| David Erskine Baker - English drama - 1812 - 416 pages
...acknowledged judge of literature, Sir Philip Sidney. " Iti» " (says he) full of stately speech«, " well-sounding phrases, climbing " to the height of Seneca's style, " and as full of notable mora!Hj> SAC '* which it doth most delightfully " leach, and so obtain the very end "of poetry." Wood... | |
| Francis Wrangham - Great Britain - 1816 - 616 pages
...Whitehall. Sir Philip Sidney, in his ' Defence of Poesy,' gives the following character of it : " Gorboduc is full of stately speeches and well-sounding phrases, climbing to the height of Seneca's stile ; and as full of notable mo* It was completed, through his recommendation, by Richard Baldwyne... | |
| Francis Wrangham - Great Britain - 1816 - 624 pages
...Whitehall. Sir Philip Sidney, in his ' Defence of Poesy,' gives the following character of it : " Gorboduc is full of stately speeches and well-sounding phrases, climbing to the height of Seneca's stile ; and as full of notable mo* It was completed, through his recommendation, by Richard Baldwyne... | |
| Books - 1820 - 404 pages
...plot, incident, and character, is entitled to the name of an English 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... | |
| Henry Southern - 1820 - 402 pages
...plot, incident, and character, is entitled to the name of an English 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... | |
| William Hazlitt - English drama - 1821 - 374 pages
...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. Pope, whose taste in such matters was very different... | |
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