...any very acute or discriminating powers of criticism, characterises this play as " full of stately and well-sounding phrases, climbing to the height of Seneca his style, and full of notable moralitie." This, perhaps, is no very high commendation, though intended as such ;...

...of Sir Philip Sidney, who tells us, that " Gorboduc is full of stately speeches, and well sounding first application of this passage to Shakspeare,...expected, feeling himself hurt at Greene's unmeri Declamation and morality, however, are not the essentials of tragedy; the first, indeed, is a positive...

...nor skilful poelric, excepting Oorboduc, which, notwithstanding as it is full of stately speeches, espeare moralitic, which it doth most delightfully teach, am) so obtain the very end of poésie : jet, in truth,...

...Gordubuc 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 thereby obtains the very end of poetry." So highly was it esteemed by Pope, that he, in conjunction...

...face, The flying ghost his mortall corpes forsooke." Sir Philip Sidney says of this tragedy, " Gorboduc is full of stately speeches, and well-sounding phrases,...morality ; which it doth most delightfully teach, and thereby attain the very end of poetry." After Lily comes Kyd, whose Jeronimo and Spanish Tragedy...

...entitles him to a high rank among the Elizabethan authors., " Gorboduc," says Sir Philip Sidney,* " is full of stately speeches and well-sounding phrases...height of Seneca, his style, and as full of notable moralitie, which it doth most delightfully teach and so obtaine the very end of Poesie." This drama...

...speaks favourably of it, with certain exceptions, as " full of stately speeches and »ell-sonnding phrases, climbing to the height of Seneca his style, and as full of notable moralitie, which it doth most delightfully teach, and so obtain the very end of poesie." Rymer observes,...

...Sir Philip Sydney, in his " Defence of Poesie," speaks favourably of it, with certain exceptions, as "full of stately speeches and well-sounding phrases,...height of Seneca his style, and as full of notable moralitie, which it doth most delightfully teach, and so obtain the very end of poesie." Rymer observes,...

...his face, and death prepared for me."* Sir Philip Sidney says of this tragedy : " Gorboduc is full cf stately speeches, and well-sounding phrases, climbing...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...

...Seneca's laboured rhetoric touched them not. ' Gorbuduc' might be, as Sir Philip Sidney said it was, ' full of stately speeches and well-sounding phrases,...Seneca his style, and as full of notable morality.' It did indeed contain much poetry which, even in the present day, may be called fine, and which in...