 | J. L. Styan - 1996 - 452 pages
...The same propriety required that Dryden in All for Love (1678) should see that Antony and Cleopatra were 'famous patterns of unlawful love, and their end accordingly was unfortunate' (the Preface, 9-11), and that in his Troilus and Cressida (1679) he should save Troilus from a final... | |
 | Y. S. Bains - 1998 - 562 pages
...Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1967, pp. 190-279. Playwrights after Shakespeare have sought to delineate "the excellency of the moral. For the chief persons...love; and their end accordingly was unfortunate." 4 Tate, Nahum. "To Edward Tayler." The Loyal General. London: Henry Bonwicke, 1680. 12, 59 pp. Shakespeare... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1998 - 378 pages
...(and superior to) wits, critics and other elements of potential audiences, Dryden is hardly suggesting represented, were famous patterns of unlawful love; and their end accordingly was unfortunate' (Preface, p. 10, lines 7-10). His own treatment of the protagonists was a result of his steering a... | |
 | John Dryden - 1956 - 682 pages
...take my own measures, in aiming at the Mark. I doubt not but the same Motive has prevailed with all of us in this attempt; I mean the excellency of the Moral:...patterns of unlawful love; and their end accordingly was unfortu10 nate. All reasonable men have long since concluded, That the Heroe of the Poem, ought not... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2001 - 636 pages
...take my own measures, in aiming at the Mark. I doubt not but the same Motive has prevailed with all of us in this attempt ; I mean the excellency of the...reasonable men have long since concluded, That the Heroe of the Poem, ought not to be a character of perfect Virtue, for, then, he could not, without... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2002 - 228 pages
...play! What the Critics have said John Dryden 'I doubt not but the same motive has prevailed with all of us in this attempt; I mean the excellency of the moral....love; and their end accordingly was unfortunate.' Samuel Johnson from the Preface to All for Love (1678) 'The events, of which the principle are described... | |
 | Marcie Frank - 2002 - 194 pages
...take my own measures, in aiming at the Mark. I doubt not but the same motive has prevailed with all of us in this attempt; I mean the excellency of the Moral: for the chief persons represented, were the famous pattern of unlawful love; and their end was unfortunate, (xm: 10) We should not let Dryden's... | |
 | Marcie Frank - 2002 - 194 pages
...measures, in aiming at the Mark. I doubt not but the same motive has prevailed with all of us in diis attempt; I mean the excellency of the Moral: for the chief persons represented, were the famous pattern of unlawful love; and their end was unfortunate, (xin: 10) We should not let Dryden's... | |
 | Marjorie B. Garber - 2003 - 332 pages
...(1678), John Dryden commented on the necessity of bringing the play to a tragic conclusion, citing "the excellency of the moral: for the chief persons...unlawful love; and their end accordingly, was unfortunate The crimes of love, which they both committed, were not occasioned by any necessity, or fatal ignorance,... | |
 | Prudence J. Jones - 2006 - 372 pages
...take my own measures in aiming at the mark. I doubt not but the same motive has prevailed with all of us in this attempt; I mean the excellency of the moral:...reasonable men have long since concluded, that the heroe of the poem ought not to be a character of perfect virtue, for then he could not without injustice... | |
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Ulysses amongst the crowd of sutors, and, withal, to take my own measures in aiming at the mark. I doubt not but the same motive has prevailed with all of us in this attempt; I mean the excellency of the moral: For the chief persons represented were famous... 
