 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808 - 486 sider
...boduc 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." * This is a mistake. Marlow, and several other dramatic authors,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1810 - 618 sider
...Gorboduc is full of stately speeches, and well sounding phrases, climbing to the heighth of 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 was of opinion, " that the writers of the succeeding... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1810 - 620 sider
...of stately speeches, , and well sounding phrases, climbing to the hrighth of Seneca his style, aud as full of notable morality; which it doth most delightfully teach, and thereby obtain the very end of poetry." And Mr Pope was of opinion, " thai the writers of the succeeding... | |
 | David Erskine Baker - 1812 - 430 sider
...acknowledged judge of literature. Sir Philip Sidney. " Iti1 " (says he) full of stately speeches, " well-sounding phrases, climbing '' to the height of Seneca's style, " and as full of notable moraliiv, SAD S At " which it doth most delightfully •" teach, and so obtain the very end " of poetry."... | |
 | David Erskine Baker - 1812 - 416 sider
...acknowledged judge of literature, Sir Philip Sidney. " Iti» " (says he) full of stately speech«, " well-sounding phrases, climbing " to the height of Seneca's style, " and as full of notable mora!Hj> SAC '* which it doth most delightfully " leach, and so obtain the very end "of poetry." Wood... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - 1816 - 616 sider
...Whitehall. Sir Philip Sidney, in his ' Defence of Poesy,' gives the following character of it : " Gorboduc is full of stately speeches and well-sounding phrases, climbing to the height of Seneca's stile ; and as full of notable mo* It was completed, through his recommendation, by Richard Baldwyne... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - 1816 - 624 sider
...Whitehall. Sir Philip Sidney, in his ' Defence of Poesy,' gives the following character of it : " Gorboduc is full of stately speeches and well-sounding phrases, climbing to the height of Seneca's stile ; and as full of notable mo* It was completed, through his recommendation, by Richard Baldwyne... | |
 | Henry Southern - 1820 - 402 sider
...plot, incident, and character, is entitled to the name of an English tragedy. Sir Philip Sidney says, it is " full of stately speeches and well-sounding phrases, climbing to the height of Seneca his style, and as full of notable morality, which it doth most delightfully teach." Rymer thinks... | |
 | 1820 - 404 sider
...plot, incident, and character, is entitled to the name of an English tragedy. Sir Philip Sidney says, it is '' full of stately speeches and well-sounding phrases, climbing to the height of Seneca his style, and as full of notable morality, which it doth most delightfully teach." Rymer thinks... | |
 | 1821 - 724 sider
...it «л full of stately speeches, and well sounding- ¡ihrases, climbing to the height nf Smcca his 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 defectuous in the circumstances, which... | |
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Our Tragedies and Comedies (not without cause cried out against), observing rules neither of honest civility nor of skilful Poetry, excepting Gorboduc (again, I say, of those that I have seen), which notwithstanding, as it is full of stately speeches... 
