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" For it is faulty both in place and time, the two necessary companions of all corporal actions. For where the stage should always represent but one place, and the uttermost time presupposed in it should be, both by Aristotle's precept and common reason,... "
The History of English Dramatic Poetry to the Time of Shakespeare: And ... - Page 423
by John Payne Collier - 1831
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The Cambridge History of English Literature, Volume 9

Sir Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller - English literature - 1910 - 526 pages
...the Italian interpreters of Aristotle's Poetics are disregarded, as Sidney lamented in his Apologie : For it is faulty both in place, and time, the two necessary companions of all corporall actions. For where the stage should alwaies represent but one place, and the uttermost time...
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The Cambridge History of English Literature: The drama to 1642

Sir Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller - English literature - 1910 - 536 pages
...interpreters of Aristotle's Poetics are disregarded, as Sidney lamented in his Apologie : For it IB faulty both in place, and time, the two necessary companions of all corporall actions. For where the stage should alwaies represent but one place, and the uttermost time...
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Representative passages from English literature, chosen and arranged by W.H ...

William Henry Hudson - 1914 - 362 pages
...troth it is very defectious in the circumstances; which grievcth mee, because it might not remaine as an exact model of all Tragedies. For it is faulty...place, and time, the two necessary companions of all corporate actions.1 For where the stage should alwaies represent but one place, and the uttermost time...
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Contrast in Shakespeare's Historical Plays

Francis Meehan - Historical drama, English - 1915 - 132 pages
...pays a tribute to the excellence of Gorboduc, but grieves that Sackville's is not a model tragedy. "For it is faulty both in place, and time, the two necessary companions of all corporall actions. For where the stage should alwaies represent but one place, and the vttermost time...
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Poetry and National Character

William Macneile Dixon - English poetry - 1915 - 60 pages
...mingling kings and clowns," observing the "rules neither of honest civility nor of skilful poetry. . .faulty both in place and time, the two necessary companions of all corporal actions." Thus, as might be expected, the country cousin has, as Sidney called our drama, "an unmannerly daughter...
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The English Essay and Essayists

Hugh Walker - Authors, English - 1915 - 400 pages
...obtain the very end of poesy, yet in truth it is very defectious in the circumstances, which grieveth me, because it might not remain as an exact model of all tragedies." The other critics may be passed over rapidly. Neither Webbe nor Puttenham is worthy of note as an essayist....
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A Book of English Literature, Selected and Ed

Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Robert Grant Martin - English literature - 1916 - 924 pages
...[40 the very end of poesy; yet in truth it is very defectious in the circumstances, which grieveth An' lea'e us nought but grief an' pain For promised...only toucheth thee: But, och! I backward cast my ee 4 For where the stage should always represent but one place, and the uttermost time presupposed in it...
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A Book of English Literature, Volume 1

Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Robert Grant Martin - English literature - 1916 - 468 pages
...[40 the very end of poesy; yet in truth it is very defectious in the circumstances, which grieveth me, because it might not remain as an exact model...time, the two necessary companions of all corporal action^. For where the stage should always' -teprEsent but one place, and the utternjost time presupposed...
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A Book of English Literature, Selected and Ed

Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Robert Grant Martin - English literature - 1916 - 566 pages
...[40 the very end of poesy; yet in truth it is very defectious in the circumstances, which grieveth me, because it might not remain as an exact model...all tragedies. For it is faulty both in place and tune, the two necessary companions of all corporal actions. For where the stage should always represent...
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Philology and Literature Series

University of Wisconsin - Depressions - 1916 - 598 pages
...troth it is very defectious in the circumstaunces, which greeveth mee, because it might not remaine as an exact model of all Tragedies. For it is faulty both in place and time, the twonecessary companions of all corporall actions. For where the stage should alwaies represent but...
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