 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1876 - 768 pages
...return of Charles the Second. LORD MACAULAY: Comic Dramatists of the Restoration. The circumscription of time wherein the whole drama begins and ends is, according to ancient rule and best example, within the space of twenty-four hours. MILTON. This would make them soon perceive what... | |
 | Henry Noble Day - English literature - 1877 - 564 pages
...poets unequal'd yet by any, and the best rule to all who endevor to write tragedy. The circumscription of time, wherein the whole drama begins and ends, is according to ancient rule, and best example, within the space of twenty four hours. THE ARGUMENT. Bamson made captive, blind, and... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1880 - 772 pages
...return of Charles the Second. LORD MACAULAY: Comic Dramatists of the Restoration. The circumscription of time wherein the whole drama begins and ends is, according to ancient rule and best example, within the space of twenty-four hours. MILTON. This would make them soon perceive what... | |
 | David Masson - 1880 - 880 pages
...of all sorts. One of the so-called unities at least has been studied : for " the circumscription " of time wherein the whole drama begins and ends is, "according to ancient rule and best example, within the " space of twenty-four hours." Formal or numerical division into act and scene... | |
 | John Milton - 1881 - 590 pages
...unequalled yet by any, and the best rule to all who endeavour to write tragedy. The circumscription of time, wherein the whole drama begins and ends, is, according to ancient rule and best example, within the space of twenty-four hours. THE PERSONS. SAMSON. MANOAH, the Father of Samson.... | |
 | John Milton - 1881 - 894 pages
...unequalled yet by any, and the best rule to all who endeavour to write tragedy. The circumscription of time, wherein the whole drama begins and ends is, according to ancient rule and best example, within the space of twenty-four hours. THE AEGUMEXT. SAMSON made captive, blind, and... | |
 | John Milton - 1882 - 514 pages
...who are not unacquainted with Mfchulus, Sophocles, and Euripides, the three Tragic Poets unequall'd yet by any, and the beft rule to all who endeavour...wherein the whole Drama begins and ends, is according to antient rule, and beft example, within the fpace of 24 hours. THE ARGUMENT. AM SON made Captive, Blind,... | |
 | John Daniel Morell - 1885 - 530 pages
...that temptation. The Samson Agonistes is a " dramatic poem " on the Greek model. "The circumscription of time, wherein the whole drama begins and ends, is, according to ancient rule and best example, within the space of twenty-four hours." It should be read as a piece of autobiography.... | |
 | John Milton - 1890 - 262 pages
...unequalled yet by any, and the best rule to all who endeavour to write Tragedy. The circumscription of time, wherein the whole drama begins and ends, is, according to ancient rule and best example, within the space of twenty-four hours. THE ARGUMENT. SAMSON, made captive, blind, and... | |
 | Philip Sidney - Poetry - 1890 - 210 pages
...absurd, and brought in without discretion, corruptly to gratify the people. . . . The circumscription of time wherein the whole drama begins and ends, is, according to ancient rule and best example, within the space of twenty-four hours." But cf. Moulton, Shak, as a Dram. Artist, pp.... | |
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The circumscription of time wherein the whole drama begins and ends, is according to ancient rule, and best example, within the space of twenty-four hours. 
