English Critical Essays: (sixteenth, Seventeenth, and Eighteenth Centuries)

action admiration ancients appear beauties better cause characters Chaucer common composition considered critics delight divine doth Dryden effect English equal example excellent expression fall faults follow formed French genius give given greater hath Homer imagination imitation invention Italy judge judgement kind knowledge labour language learning least leave less lines lived look lost manner matter mean measure mind nature never numbers observed once opinion original particular pass passion perfect perhaps persons Plautus play poem Poesy poet poetical poetry praise present reader reason received represented rest rhyme rules scenes seems sense Shakespeare short sometimes sort sound speak spirit stage stand story things thoughts tion tragedy translated true truth verse Virgil virtue whole write written