...skilful poetry, excepting Gorboduc, (again I say, of those that I have seen,) which notwithstanding it is full of stately speeches and well-sounding phrases, climbing to the height of Seneca's style, and as full of notable morality, which it doth most delightfully teach, and so obtain...

...profitably illustrate the attitude of the Italian critics by Sidney's eulogy otGorboduc: " full ofstately speeches and well-sounding phrases, climbing to the...Seneca his style, and as full of notable morality which ii doth most delightfully teach and so obtain the very end of Poesy." genia in Tauris, far surpasses...

...haue seen) which notwithstanding as it is full of stately speeches, and well sounding phrases, clyming to the height of Seneca his style, and as full of notable morallitie, which it dooth most delightfully teach, and so obtaine the very ende of Poesie. Yet in...

...native spirit. It is praised very highly by Sidney in his " Defence of Poesy." "It is full," he says, "of stately speeches and well-sounding phrases, climbing to the height of Seneca his style." The only grave fault he finds is non-observance of the unity of time. So were the greatest literary...

...poetry, excepting Gorboduc, — again I say of 30 those that I have seen. Which notwithstanding as it is full of stately speeches and well-sounding phrases, climbing to the height of Seneca's style, and as full of notable morality, which it doth most delightfully teach, and so obtain...

...notwithstanding as it is full of stately speeches and well-sounding phrases, climbing to the height of Seneca's style, and as full of notable morality, which it doth most delightfully teach, and so obtain the very end of poesy ; yet in truth it is very defectious in the circumstances, which...

...Sackville's drama, " full of stately speeches and well sounding phrases climbing to the height of Seneca's style, and as full of notable morality which it doth most delightfully teach and so obtain the very end of poesy" : nevertheless he had somewhat against it for its departure from...

...Sir Philip Sidney says, " Gorboduc 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." [Gorboduc w the proper title. — ED.] the frippery of...

...Sir Philip Sidney says, " Gorboduc 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." [Gor> boduc is the proper title. — ED.] the frippery...

...skilful poetry, excepting Gorboduc, (again, I say, of those that I have seen,) which notwithstanding as it is full of stately speeches, and well-sounding...notable morality, which it doth most delightfully teach, 1 A long series of Poems, published in the early part of Elizabeth's reign. The two first, and best,...