| John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1882 - 528 страници
...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... | |
| John Dryden - 1882 - 526 страници
...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... | |
| Charles Edwyn Vaughan - 1896 - 330 страници
...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,... | |
| Frederick Samuel Boas - 1896 - 578 страници
...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.... | |
| 1897 - 656 страници
...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... | |
| George Lillie Craik - 1897 - 628 страници
...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... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1900
...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... | |
| 1901 - 436 страници
...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... | |
| Oliver Herbrand Gordon Leigh - 1901 - 432 страници
...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... | |
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