 | Oliver Herbrand Gordon Leigh - English literature - 1901 - 432 pages
...shall we set forth a story which contains both many places and many times? And do they not know, that a tragedy is tied to the laws of poesy, and not of history;...matter, or to frame the history to the most tragical convenience? Again, many things may be told, which cannot be showed; if they know the difference betwixt... | |
 | Literature - 1901 - 440 pages
...shall we set forth a story which contains both many places and many times? And do they not know, that a tragedy is tied to the laws of poesy, and not of history;...matter, or to frame the history to the most tragical convenience? Again, many things may be told, which cannot be showed ; if they know the difference betwixt... | |
 | English literature - 1901 - 436 pages
...shall we set forth a story which contains both many places and many times? And do they not know, that a tragedy is tied to the laws of poesy, and not of history;...matter, or to frame the history to the most tragical convenience? Again, many things may be told, which cannot be showed ; if they know the difference betwixt... | |
 | John Addington Symonds - Drama - 1904 - 580 pages
...we set forth a story which contains both many places and many times ? And do they not know, that a tragedy is tied to the laws of poesy, and not of history...matter, or to frame the history to the most tragical convenience ? Again, many things may be told, which cannot be shewed ; if they know the difference... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1907 - 186 pages
...writer, in constructing the plot, had not arrived to a perfect conception of the principle ' that a tragedy is tied to the laws of poesy, and not of history,...matter, or to frame the history to the most tragical convenience '. But with this essential disadvantage we cannot doubt that, even with very imperfect... | |
 | Ashley Horace Thorndike - English drama - 1908 - 422 pages
...of Poesie, and not of Historic ? not bound to follow the storie, but having liberty either to faine a quite new matter, or to frame the history to the most tragicall conveniencie. Againe, many things may be told, which cannot be shewed, if they knewe the... | |
 | Philip Sidney - Poetry - 1909 - 204 pages
...we set forth a story which contains both many places and many times ? And do they not know, that a tragedy is tied to the laws of poesy, and not of history...matter, or to frame the history to the most tragical convenience ? Again, many things may be told, which cannot be showed : if they know the difference... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1909 - 172 pages
...writer, in constructing the plot, had not arrived to a perfect conception of the principle "That a tragedy is tied to the laws of Poesy, and not of History,...matter, or to frame the history to the most tragical convenience." But with this essential disadvantage we cannot doubt that, even with very imperfect dialogue,... | |
 | Guy Andrew Thompson - Criticism - 1914 - 238 pages
...person, urging regard, doth work more powerfully upon the affections." Sidney (Smith, i, 198) declares that "tragedy is tied to the laws of poesy, and not...matter, or to frame the history to the most tragical convenience". Marston (Pref. Sophonisba — cp. Ben Jonson's Sejanus, etc.) remarks, "Know that I have... | |
 | Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Robert Grant Martin - English literature - 1916 - 964 pages
...we set forth a story which containeth both many places and many times? And do they not know that a tragedy is tied to the laws of poesy, and not of history;...feign a quite new matter, or to frame the history to [100 the most tragical conveniency? Again, many things may be told which cannot be showed, — if they... | |
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And do they not know that a tragedy is tied to the laws of poesy, and not of history; not bound to follow the story, but having liberty either to feign a quite new matter, or to frame the history to the most tragical conveniency ? Again, many things may... 
