...is dignified and, from the special point of view, adequate; there is no lack (to use Sidney's words) of ' stately speeches and well-sounding phrases, climbing to the height of Seneca his style.' As a fact, it is in the language rather than in the matter that the main interest of the play lies....

...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...

...finds fault with Gorboduc for its violation of the unities of time and place, declares it to be " fall 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...

...genuinely English. Sir Philip Sidney, whose culture was of the best in point of quality, found " Gorbordoc" full of " stately speeches and well-sounding phrases, climbing to the height of Seneca his style," but notes the failure to comply with the traditional unity of time. Sackville, one of the authors of...

...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...his style, and as full of notable morality, which it does most delightfully teach, and so obtain the very end of poesy; yet, in truth, it is very defectuous...

...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...his style, and as full of notable morality, which it does most delightfully teach, and so obtain the very end of poesy; yet, in truth, it is very defectuous...

...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...his style, and as full of notable morality, which it does most delightfully teach, and so obtain the very end of poesy ; yet, in truth, it is very defectuous...

...Philip Sidney was, in fact, very fond of this very play. " Gorboduc" he says in his Defense of Poesie, " is full of stately speeches and well-sounding phrases,...morality ; which it doth most delightfully teach, and thereby obtain the very end of poetry." The argument of the tragedy, as given in the quaint and...

...sounding phrases, climbing to the height of ' 'The trailer with the knife under his cloke.' Knigts'i Tals. 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...

...sounding phrases, climbing to the height of 1 'The 1miler with the knife under his cloke.' Knifhs'1 Tfle. Seneca his style, and as full of notable morality ; which it doth roost delightfully teach, and thereby obtain the very end of poetry.' And Mr. Pope, whose taste in...