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
| George Godfrey Cunningham - Great Britain - 1863 - 834 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 ,, obtain the very end oi poesy." The ' Mirrour of Magistrates' which he commenced and sketched,... | |
| Richard Grant White - Dramatists, English - 1865 - 454 pages
...finding fault with Ferrex and Porrex for its violation of the unities of time and place, admits that it is " full of stately speeches and well-sounding phrases, climbing to the height of Seneca his stile, and full of notable morality, which it doth most delightfully teach," yet it may be safely said... | |
| Charles Knight - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1866 - 526 pages
...' Gorboduc/ making it an exception to the rudeness of all the English plays he had seen, as being " full of stately speeches and well-sounding phrases,...notable morality, which it doth most delightfully teach, and so obtain the very end of poesy." Notwithstanding the examples thus set, the employment of blank... | |
| Cassell, ltd - 1876 - 466 pages
...skilful poetry. Excepting Gorboduc6 (again I say of those that I have seen), which notwithstanding, as ainqmur du tainqueur <fc la terre, — that I might obtain that regard does most delightfully teach, and so obtain the very end of poesy ; yet, in truth, it is very defectuous... | |
| William Hazlitt - English literature - 1878 - 560 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...morality ; which it doth most delightfully teach, and so obtain the very end of poetry." } And Mr. Pope, whose * [Edition of 1570, pp. 143-4.] t " The... | |
| John Adam Weisse - English language - 1878 - 748 pages
...first English tragedy, styled " Ferrer and Porrex" (1565), of which his distinguished cotemporary, Sir Philip Sidney, says : " It is full of stately...and well-sounding phrases, climbing to the height of Seneca's style, and as full of* notable morality." Next Sir Philip Sidney produced "The Lady of the... | |
| Paul Stapfer - Civilization, Classical, in literature - 1880 - 428 pages
...neither of honest civility, nor of skilfull poetry, excepting ' Gorboduc,' which, notwithstanding as 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... | |
| Paul Stapfer - Civilization, Classical, in literature - 1880 - 520 pages
...notwithstanding as 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 Poesie ; yet, in troth, it is very defections in the circumstances,... | |
| John Addington Symonds - Italian literature - 1881 - 666 pages
...We may profitably illustrate the attitude of the Italian critics by Sidney's eulogy of Corboduc : ' full of stately speeches and well-sounding phrases,...notable morality which it doth most delightfully teach and so obtain the very end of Poesy.' genia in Tauris, far surpasses the Rosmunda, not only as a poem... | |
| John Addington Symonds - Italian literature - 1881 - 652 pages
...We may profitably illustrate the attitude of the Italian critics by Sidney's eulogy of Gorboduc : ' full of stately speeches and well-sounding phrases,...notable morality which it doth most delightfully teach and so obtain the very end of Poesy.' genia in Tauris, far surpasses the Rosmunda, not only as a poem... | |
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