| SIR PHILIP SIDNEY TO MACAULAY - 1910 - 474 страници
...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... | |
| John Addington Symonds - 1913 - 596 страници
...skilful poetry.' The one exception he makes, is in favour of ' Gorboduc.' ' It is full,' he say*, ' of stately speeches and well-sounding phrases, climbing to the height of Seneca his etyle.' The only grave blot he detects in it, is non-observance of the unity of time. In this criticism,... | |
| John Addington Symonds - 1914 - 508 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, climbing to the height of Seneca his stylo, and as full of notable morality which it doth most delightfully teach and so obtain the very... | |
| Theodore Whitefield Hunt - 1914 - 346 страници
...degree of poetic genius. Sir Philip Sidney, the accomplished critic of the day, wrote of it: "Gorboduc is full of stately speeches and wellsounding phrases, climbing to the height of Seneca's style and as full of notable morality. Thus it doth most delightfully teach, and so obtain... | |
| Thora Burnley Jones, Bernard De Bear Nicol - 1976 - 200 страници
...have 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... | |
| David Daiches - 1979 - 268 страници
...excepting Gorboduc, . . . which notwithstanding, as it is full of stately speeches and well sounding phrases, climbing to the height of Seneca his style...notable morality which it doth most delightfully teach." And again, after complaining that the English plays move freely from place to place and jump long periods... | |
| Philip Sidney - 1983 - 580 страници
...poetry, excepting Gorboduc1"3 (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... | |
| Leonard R. N. Ashley - 1988 - 330 страници
...skillful poetry, excepting Gorboduc (again, 1 say, of those that I have seen), which not-withstanding, 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... | |
| George Alexander Kennedy, Glyn P. Norton - 1989 - 790 страници
...heedless manoeuvres, its rant, and maxim: 'full of stately speeches, and wel sounding phrases, clyming to the height of Seneca his style, and as full of notable morallitie, which it doth most delightfully teach, and so obtaine the very ende of Poesie'.*0 A commentary... | |
| Michael J. Sidnell - 1991 - 332 страници
...skilful poetry, excepting Gorboduc11 {again, I say, of those that I have seenl, which notwithstanding as it is full of stately speeches and well-sounding phrases,...notable morality, which it doth most delightfully teach, and so obtain the very end of poesy, and severity towards their children, but he can control them under... | |
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