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
| John Addington Symonds - English drama - 1884 - 696 pages
...skilful poetry.' The one exception he makes, is in favour of ' Gorboduc.' ' It is full,' he says, ' of stately speeches and well-sounding phrases, climbing to the height of Seneca his style.' The only grave blot he detects in it, is non-observance of the unity of time. In this criticism, delivered... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1887 - 596 pages
...skilful poetry, excepting Gorboduc, (again I say, of those that I have seen,) which 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... | |
| John Addington Symonds - Art, Italian - 1888 - 674 pages
...profitably illustrate the attitude of the Italian critics by Sidney's eulogy otGorboduc: " full ofstately speeches and well-sounding phrases, climbing to the...Seneca his style, and as full of notable morality which ii doth most delightfully teach and so obtain the very end of Poesy." genia in Tauris, far surpasses... | |
| Philip Sidney - Poetry - 1889 - 238 pages
...haue seen) which notwithstanding as it is full of stately speeches, and well sounding phrases, clyming to the height of Seneca his style, and as full of notable morallitie, which it dooth most delightfully teach, and so obtaine the very ende of Poesie. Yet in... | |
| William Echard Golden - English drama - 1890 - 242 pages
...native spirit. It is praised very highly by Sidney in his " Defence of Poesy." "It is full," he says, "of stately speeches and well-sounding phrases, climbing to the height of Seneca his style." The only grave fault he finds is non-observance of the unity of time. So were the greatest literary... | |
| Philip Sidney - Poetry - 1890 - 210 pages
...poetry, excepting Gorboduc, — again I say of 30 those that I have seen. 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... | |
| Philip Sidney - Poetry - 1890 - 206 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 poesy ; yet in truth it is very defectious in the circumstances, which... | |
| American fiction - 1897 - 552 pages
...Sackville's drama, " 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 poesy" : nevertheless he had somewhat against it for its departure from... | |
| John Dryden - 1882 - 526 pages
...Sir Philip Sidney says, " Gorboduc 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." [Gorboduc w the proper title. — ED.] the frippery of... | |
| John Dryden, Walter Scott - English literature - 1882 - 528 pages
...Sir Philip Sidney says, " Gorboduc 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." [Gor> boduc is the proper title. — ED.] the frippery... | |
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