 | Horace Walpole - English literature - 1806 - 430 pages
...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...moralitie, which it doth most delightfully teach, and so obtayne the very end of poesie V Puttenham • Vide Preface. [Dr. Anderson, an excellent judge, thinks... | |
 | 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 notable morality, which it doth most delightfully teach, and thereby obtain the very end of poetry." * This... | |
 | Books - 1820 - 404 pages
...of an English tragedy. Sir Philip Sidney says, it is '' full of 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." Rymer thinks it might have been a better direction... | |
 | Henry Southern - 1820 - 402 pages
...name of an English tragedy. Sir Philip Sidney says, it is " full of 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." Rymer thinks it might have been a better direction... | |
 | 1820 - 408 pages
...name of an English tragedy. Sir Philip Sidney says, it is " full of 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." Rymer thinks it might have been a better direction... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English drama - 1821 - 374 pages
...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, and as full of notable morality ; which it doth most delightfully teach, and thereby obtain the very end of poetry." And Mr.... | |
 | William Hazlitt - Dramatists, English - 1821 - 372 pages
...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, and as full of notable morality ; which it doth most delightfully teach, and thereby obtain the very end of poetry." And Mr.... | |
 | Books - 1820 - 406 pages
...name of an English tragedy. Sir Philip Sidney says, it is " full of 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." Rymer thinks it might have been a better direction... | |
 | Anecdotes - 1826 - 370 pages
...gives this 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...moralitie, which it doth most delightfully teach, and to obtayne the very end of poesie." Although so much praised, Gorbodac was never popular, " owing,"... | |
 | Reuben Percy - Anecdotes - 1826 - 386 pages
...gives this 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 muralitie, which it doth most delightfully teach, and so obtayne the very end of poesie." Although... | |
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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... 
