...his face, and death prepared for me."* Sir Philip Sidney says of this tragedy : " Gorboduc is full cf stately speeches, and well-sounding phrases, climbing...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...

...effected this improvement. It was not an obscure or a contemptible performance. Sydney describes it as "full of stately speeches and well-sounding phrases, climbing to the height of Seneca his style." At any rate, hero was dramatic blank-verse ; monotonous indeed, not informed with any bold or creative...

...lofty character of it: — " It is full of high sounding phrases, climbing to the heights of Seneca's style, and as full of notable morality, which it doth most delightfully teach, and so obtain the very end of poesy." The ' Mirrour of Magistrates' which he commenced and sketched,...

...his face, and death prepared for me."* Sir Philip Sidney says of this tragedy : " Gorboduc is full cf stately speeches, and well-sounding phrases, climbing...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...

...produced his tragedy of " Gorboduc," of which it may be sufficient to say, that Sidney describes it as " full of stately speeches and well-sounding phrases, climbing to the height of Seneca his style."* English Dramatic poetry was not born with the courtly Sackville. It was struggling into life when it...

...rhyme, and the fifth by a didactic speech of nearly two hundred lines. Sir Philip Sydney pronounced it " full of stately speeches and well-sounding phrases, climbing to the height of Seneca his stile, and full of notable morality, which it doth most delightfully teach." 1701. FEEDEEICE III of...

...it to be " full of stately speeches and well-sounding phrases, climbing to the height of Seneca in his style, and as full of notable morality, which it doth most delightfully teach, and so obtain the very end of poesy." It grieves him, he adds, that it is so " very defectuous in the...

...he finds fault with Gorboduc for its violation of the unities of time and place, declares it to be " full of stately speeches and well-sounding phrases, climbing to the height of Seneca in his style, and as full of notable morality, which it doth most delightfully teach, and so obtain...

...The best and only commendable tragedy then written was Gorboduc, of which he said, " notwithstanding it is full of stately speeches and wellsounding phrases, climbing to the height of Seneca's style, as full of notable morality, which it doth most delightfully teach, and so obtain the...

...lofty character of it : — " It is full of high sounding phrases, climbing to the heights of Seneca's style, and as full of notable morality, which it doth most delightfully teach, and ,, obtain the very end oi poesy." The ' Mirrour of Magistrates' which he commenced and sketched,...