 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 466 strani
...epilogue he has defended by a long postscript. He had promised a second dialogue, in which he should more fully treat of the virtues and faults of the English poets, who have written in the dramatic, epic, or lyric way. This promise was never formally performed ; but, with respect... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 476 strani
...epilogue he has defended by a long postscript^ He had promised a second dialogue, in which he should more fully treat of the virtues and faults of the English poets, who have written in the dramatick, epick, or lyrick way. This promise was never formally performed; but, with respect... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1821 - 442 strani
...unjustly prefer the French before them. This I intimate, lest any should think me so exceeding vain, as to teach others an art which they understand much...friends, shall find any acceptance in the world, I ?romise to myself a better success of the Second art, wherein I shall more fully treat of the virtues... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - 676 strani
...before his Essay on Dramatick Poesy : " This I intimate, lest any should think me so exceeding vain, as to teach others an art which they understand much better than myself;" and Lowth has detected it in the writers of the reign of Queen Anne. This error is even now occasionally... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1823 - 652 strani
...Epilogue he has defended by a long postscript. He had promised a second dialogue, in which he should more fully treat of the virtues and faults of the English poets, who have written in the dramatick, epick, or lyrick way. This promise was never formally performed ; but, with respect... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 674 strani
...Epilogue he has defended by a long postscript. He had promised a second dialogue, in which he should more fully treat 'of the virtues and faults of the English poets, who have written in the dramatick, epick, or lyrick way. This promise was never formally performed ; but, with respect... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1837 - 752 strani
...epilogue he has defended *by a long postscript. He had promised a second dialogue, in which he should o the poor, while he lived in the family of his friend, he allowed the third port in the dramatic, epic, or lyric way. This promise was never formally performed ; but, with respect... | |
 | John Dryden, John Mitford - 1844 - 536 strani
...hetter than myself. But tf this incorrect Essay, written in the countrv, without the help of hooks, or advice of friends, shall find any acceptance in the world, I promise to myself a hetter success of the Second Part, wherein I shall more fully treat of the virtues and faults of the... | |
 | John Dryden - 1850 - 318 strani
...up his famous " Essay on Dramatic Poesy," written, as he states in a short address to the reader, " in the country, without the help of books or advice of friends." The subject is treated in a dialogue between Eugenius, Lisideius, Crites, and Neander, by whom are... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 468 strani
...epilogue he has defended by a lon«r postscript. He had promised a second dialogue, in which he should more fully treat of the virtues and faults of the English poets who have written in the dramatic, epic, or lyric way. This promise was never formally performed ; but, with respect... | |
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The drift of the ensuing discourse is chiefly to vindicate the honour of our English writers from the censure of those who unjustly prefer the French before them. This I intimate, lest any should think me so exceeding vain, as to teach others an art,... 
