| Henry Smith Williams - 1904 - 744 страници
...SHAKESPEARE of which it may be sufficient to say that Sidney in his Defense of Poesy 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... | |
| John Addington Symonds - 1904 - 580 страници
...skilful poetry.' The one exception he makos, is in favour of ' Gorboduc.' ' It is full,' he says, ' of stately speeches and well-sounding phrases, climbing to the height of Seneca his style.' The only grave blot he detects in it, is non-observance of the unity of time. In this criticism, delivered... | |
| John Addington Symonds - 1906 - 512 страници
...the poet, and spinning out the contest between Orestes and Pylades to absurdity, was of Gorboduc : ' full of stately speeches and well-sounding phrases,...notable morality which it doth most delightfully teach and so obtain the very end of Poesy.' to be expected. A scholar in his study can scarcely hope to improve... | |
| M. R. Gloag - 1906 - 408 страници
...speaks highly of this tragedy in his " Defence of Poesy " : " ' Gorboduc,' which, notwithstanding as it is full of stately speeches and wellsounding phrases climbing to the height of Seneca, his style, and is full of notable morality, which it doeth most delightfully teach, and so obtain the very end of... | |
| Philip Sidney - 1906 - 128 страници
...seen) whicE notwith* standing, as it is full of stately speeches: and well sounding phrases climing to the height of Seneca, his style, and as full of notable moralitie, whicH it doth most delightfully teach, and so obtain the very end of Poesie: Yet in truth,... | |
| William Stanley Braithwaite - 1907 - 892 страници
...acted 1562, and greatly admired by Sir Philip Sidney, wno describes it in his Defense of Poetry as " Full of stately speeches and well-sounding phrases,...notable morality, which it doth most delightfully teach, and thereby obtain the very end of poetry," , , PAGE 593, No. 587 — The Boar's head in hand bring... | |
| Philip Sidney - 1908 - 304 страници
...have seen) which notwithstanding as it is full of stately speeches, and wel 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 verie ende of Poesie. Yet in... | |
| Philip Sidney - 1909 - 204 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 l Defects in the Dranut.... | |
| Charles Wells Moulton - 1910 - 812 страници
...dignified and, from the special point of view, adequate ; there is no lack (to use Sidney's words) of "stately speeches and wellsounding 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.... | |
| 1910 - 450 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 phrases, climbing to the height of Seneca's style, and as full of notable morality, which it doth most delightfully teach, and so obtain... | |
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