 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 78edited by - 1820Full view - About this book
 | Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - English literature - 1824 - 378 pages
...notwithstanding 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 poetry ; — yet, in truth, it is very defectuous in the circumstances... | |
 | Books - 1824 - 378 pages
...notwithstanding 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 poetry ; — yet, in truth, it is very defectuous in the circumstances... | |
 | Robert Dodsley, Isaac Reed - English drama - 1825 - 496 pages
...knowledge or consent. The testimony of Sir Philip Sidney concerning this play is as follows : " Gorboduc is full of stately ' speeches and well-sounding phrases,...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 '... | |
 | Books - 1824 - 378 pages
...notwithstanding 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 poetry ; — yet, in truth, it is very defectuous in the circumstances... | |
 | Richard Ryan - Poetry - 1826 - 312 pages
...in his ' Apology for Poetry/ gives the following character of this tragedy, in his lofty style : " 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 thus obtain... | |
 | Richard Ryan - Poetry - 1826 - 318 pages
...in his ' Apology for Poetry,' gives the following character of this tragedy, in his lofty style : " 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 thus obtain... | |
 | Reuben Percy - Anecdotes - 1826 - 386 pages
...gives this lofty character of it. " It is full of stately speeches, and well-sounding phrases, clyming to the height of Seneca his style, and as full of notable muralitie, which it doth most delightfully teach, and so obtayne the very end of poesie." Although... | |
 | English literature - 1831 - 368 pages
...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,...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... | |
 | John Payne Collier - English drama - 1831 - 520 pages
...that I have seen), which not' withstanding as it 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 so obtain the very ' end of poesy, yet, in truth, it is very defectious in the ' circumstances,... | |
 | Englishmen - 1836 - 274 pages
...lofty character of it : — " It is full of high sounding phrases, climbing to the heights of Seneca's style, and as full of notable morality, which it doth most delightfully teach, and so obtain the very end of poesy." The ' Mirrour of Magistrates' which he commenced and sketched,... | |
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