...this lofty character of it9 1 — " 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...

...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...notable morality, which it doth most delightfully teach, and thereby obtain the very end of poetry." * This is a mistake. Marlow, and several other dramatic...

...follows : — " 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, and thereby obtain the very end of poetry." And Mr Pope was of opinion, " that the writers of the succeeding...

...Whitehall. Sir Philip Sidney, in his ' Defence of Poesy,' gives the following character of it : " Gorboduc is full of stately speeches and well-sounding phrases, climbing to the height of Seneca's stile ; and as full of notable mo* It was completed, through his recommendation, by Richard...

...Whitehall. Sir Philip Sidney, in his ' Defence of Poesy,' gives the following character of it : " Gorboduc is full of stately speeches and well-sounding phrases, climbing to the height of Seneca's stile ; and as full of notable mo* It was completed, through his recommendation, by Richard...

...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...

...Sir Philip Sidney says of this tragedy : " Gorboduc is full of stately speeches, and well sounding phrases, climbing to the height of Seneca his style,...morality ; which it doth most delightfully teach, and thereby obtain the very end of poetry." And Mr. Pope, whose taste in such matters was very different...

...Sir Philip Sidney says of this tragedy : " Gorboduc is full of stately speeches, and well sounding phrases, climbing to the height of Seneca his style,...morality ; which it doth most delightfully teach, and thereby obtain the very end of poetry." And Mr. Pope, whose taste in such matters was very different...

...as it «л full of stately speeches, and well sounding- ¡ihrases, climbing to the height nf Smcca his 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 defectuous in the circumstances, which...

...plot, in-' cident, and character, is entitled to the name of an English tragedy. Sir Philip Sidnev says, it is ",full of stately speeches and well-sounding phrases, climbing to the height of Seueca his style, ;md as full of notable morality, which it doth most delightfully teach." Rymer thinks...