 | Horace Walpole - English literature - 1806 - 448 pages
...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 moralitie, which it doth most delightfully teach, and so obtayne the very end of poesie." 9 Puttenham... | |
 | Horace Walpole - English literature - 1806 - 478 pages
...this lofty character of it 9 :—" It is full of stately speeches and well-sounding phrases, clyming to the height of Seneca his style, and as full of notable moralitie, which it doth most delightfully teach, and so obtayne the very end of poesie V Puttenham... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - English literature - 1808 - 486 pages
...little command of English, whom boduc is full of stately speeches and well sounding phrases, climbing up to the height of Seneca his style,, and as full of...morality, which it doth most delightfully teach, and thereby obtain the very end of poetry." * This is a mistake. Marlow, and several other dramatic auTS,... | |
 | Walter Scott - English drama - 1810 - 618 pages
...follows :—" Gorboduc is full of stately speeches, and well founding phrases, climbing to the heighth of Seneca his style, and as full of notable 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 the succeeding... | |
 | David Erskine Baker - Dramatists, English - 1812 - 418 pages
...Excepting " Gorboduck ; which, notwith" standing as it is full of stately " speeches and well - sounding " 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 : yet,... | |
 | David Erskine Baker - English drama - 1812 - 444 pages
...Excepting " Gorboduck ; which, notwith" standing as it is full of stately " speeches and well - sounding " phrases, climbing to the height " of Seneca his style, and as full " of notable mornlitie, which it " doth most delightfully teach, '" and so obtain the very end of " poesie : yet,... | |
 | David Erskine Baker - English drama - 1812 - 430 pages
...phrases, climbing " to the height of Seneca's style, [' and as full of noiable morality. SAD 623 •" which it doth most delightfully '" teach, and so obtain the very end " of poetry." Wood says, he was buried at Withiam above mentioned ; but (our antiquary is mistaken. SADLER,... | |
 | David Erskine Baker - Dramatists, English - 1812 - 426 pages
...well-sounding phrases, climbing " to the height of Seneca's style, " and as full of notable morality. S AD •' which it doth most delightfully " teach, and so obtain the very end *' of poetry." SADLER, ANTHONY, DD This gentleman was son of Thomas Sadler, of Chilton, in Wiltshire, Esq.... | |
 | Nathan Drake - Dramatists, English - 1817 - 702 pages
...us, that " Gorboduc is full of stately speeches, and well sounding phrases, climbing to the heighth of Seneca his style, and as full of notable morality, which it doth most delightfully teach." * Declamation and morality, however, are not the essentials of tragedy ; the first, indeed, is a positive... | |
 | Nathan Drake - Dramatists, English - 1817 - 708 pages
...us, that " Gorboduc is full of stately speeches, and well sounding phrases, climbing to the heighth of Seneca his style, and as full of notable morality, which it doth most delightfully teach." * Declamation and morality, however, are not the essentials of tragedy ; the first, indeed, is a positive... | |
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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 poesie 
