The Elizabethan Dramatists as CriticsPhilosophical Library, 1963 - 420 pages |
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Page 57
... perfect in none , is now by this secondary means of playing continually re- fined , every writer striving in himself to add a new flourish unto it ; so that in process , from the rude and unpolished tongue , it is grown to a most perfect ...
... perfect in none , is now by this secondary means of playing continually re- fined , every writer striving in himself to add a new flourish unto it ; so that in process , from the rude and unpolished tongue , it is grown to a most perfect ...
Page 103
... perfect by tomorrow night . Nathaniel . If not unto our profit , our delight . The double function had the encouragement of the academic critics . Sidney . Apology ( c . 1582 ) : [ Poets ] imitate both to delight and teach : and delight ...
... perfect by tomorrow night . Nathaniel . If not unto our profit , our delight . The double function had the encouragement of the academic critics . Sidney . Apology ( c . 1582 ) : [ Poets ] imitate both to delight and teach : and delight ...
Page 200
... perfect But one , that never will be perfect in any thing He studies ; yet he makes such shifts extempore ( Knowing his purpose what he is to speak to ) That he moves mirth in me above all the rest . Ibid . Quaylpipe . But you , sir ...
... perfect But one , that never will be perfect in any thing He studies ; yet he makes such shifts extempore ( Knowing his purpose what he is to speak to ) That he moves mirth in me above all the rest . Ibid . Quaylpipe . But you , sir ...
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APPLIED CRITICISM | 1 |
EXCLUSIVE OF SHAKESPEARE AND JONSON | 18 |
SHAKESPEARE | 243 |
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