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" I have seen), which notwithstanding, as 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, and so obtain the very end of poesy... "
The Retrospective Review - Page 79
1820
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A Catalogue of the Royal and Noble Authors of England, Scotland ..., Volume 2

Horace Walpole - 1806 - 430 pages
...this lofty character of it9 1 — " It is full of stately speeches and well- sounding phrases, clyming to the height of Seneca his style, and as full of notable moralitie, which it doth most delightfully teach, and so obtayne the very end of poesie V Puttenham...
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The Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected ...

John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808 - 486 pages
...little command of English, whom 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...
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The Ancient British Drama ...

Walter Scott - 1810 - 618 pages
...follows : — " 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...
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The British Plutarch: Containing the Lives of the Most Eminent ..., Volume 2

Francis Wrangham - 1816 - 624 pages
...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...
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The British Plutarch: Containing the Lives of the Most Eminent ..., Volume 2

Francis Wrangham - 1816 - 616 pages
...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...
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Shakespeare and His Times: Including the Biography of the Poet ..., Volume 2

Nathan Drake - 1817 - 708 pages
...us, that " 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." * Declamation and morality, however, are not the essentials of tragedy ; the first, indeed, is a positive...
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Lectures chiefly on the dramatic literature of the age of Elizabeth

William Hazlitt - 1821 - 374 pages
...Sir Philip Sidney says of this tragedy : " Gorboduc is full of stately speeches, and well sounding phrases, climbing to the height of Seneca his style,...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...
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Lectures on the Dramatic Literature of the Age of Elizabeth: Delivered at ...

William Hazlitt - 1821 - 372 pages
...Sir Philip Sidney says of this tragedy : " Gorboduc is full of stately speeches, and well sounding phrases, climbing to the height of Seneca his style,...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...
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The London Magazine, Volume 4

1821 - 724 pages
...as 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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The Nic-Nac; or, oracle of knowledge, Volume 3

1825 - 208 pages
...plot, in-' cident, and character, is entitled to the name of an English tragedy. Sir Philip Sidnev says, it is ",full of stately speeches and well-sounding phrases, climbing to the height of Seueca his style, ;md as full of notable morality, which it doth most delightfully teach." Rymer thinks...
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