 | George Harley McKnight - 1928 - 638 Seiten
...with all his awareness of earlier English defects, nevertheless wrote his Essay of Dramatick Poesie "chiefly to vindicate the Honour of our English Writers,...those who unjustly prefer the French before them." The borrowing of French words also was not as extensive as sometimes supposed. Of a thousand English... | |
 | George Harley McKnight, Bert Emsley - 1928 - 632 Seiten
...with all his awareness of earlier English defects, nevertheless wrote his Essay of Dramatick Poesie "chiefly to vindicate the Honour of our English Writers,...those who unjustly prefer the French before them." The borrowing of French words also was not as extensive as sometimes supposed. Of a thousand English... | |
 | Günther Blaicher - 1987 - 386 Seiten
...wo es heißt: "The Drift of the ensuing Discourse was chiefly to vindicate the honour of our EngUsh Writers, from the censure of those who unjustly prefer the French before them."5 Sorbie'res negatives Urteil über das englische Theater in seiner Relation d'un Voyage en Angleterre... | |
 | Michael J. Sidnell - 1991 - 332 Seiten
..."Defense of an Essay of Dramatic Poesy" I1668I. Dryden declared that the original Essag was designed "to vindicate the honour of our English writers from the censure of those who unlustly prefer the French before them,"2 This appears to be the case with respect to English drama... | |
 | Marvin A. Carlson - 1993 - 564 Seiten
...developed — hardly surprising, since the preface to the work announces unequivocally that its goal is "chiefly to vindicate the honour of our English...from the censure of those who unjustly prefer the 6Dryden, Works, 17:15. French before them."7 Neander, recalling the definition of a play as a "lively... | |
 | David Haley - 1997 - 316 Seiten
...must have been puzzled at the author's motive for writing it. "The Reader" is told that its drift "was chiefly to vindicate the honour of our English Writers,...censure of those who unjustly prefer the French." Buckhurst, however, is told two quite different things. The author dedicates the Essay to him in the... | |
 | Michael Werth Gelber - 2002 - 358 Seiten
...and the purpose of the Essay is stated in no uncertain terms: 'The drift of the ensuing Discourse was chiefly to vindicate the honour of our English Writers...those who unjustly prefer the French before them' (Dramatick Poesie, in Works, XVII, p. 7). 56 Ibid., p. 80. Neander's moment of absent-mindedness and... | |
 | Marcie Frank - 2002 - 194 Seiten
...puts it in the note, "To the Reader," that prefaces the Essay: "The drift of the ensuing discourse was chiefly to vindicate the honour of our English writers...those who unjustly prefer the French before them" (xvn: 7). Dryden's theatricalization of conflict - in the debates themselves, in their being staged... | |
 | Marcie Frank - 2002 - 194 Seiten
...puts it in the note, "To the Reader," that prefaces the Essay: "The drift of the ensuing discourse was chiefly to vindicate the honour of our English writers...those who unjustly prefer the French before them" (xvn: 7). Dryden's theatricalization of conflict - in the debates themselves, in their being staged... | |
 | John Dryden - 2003 - 1024 Seiten
...lordship's most obedient humble servant, JOHN DRYDEN. To The Reader The drift of the ensuing discourse was chiefly to vindicate the honour of our English writers...to teach others an art which they understand much be1ter than myself. But if this incorrect essay, written in the country without the help of books or... | |
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THE drift of the ensuing Discourse was chiefly to vindicate the honour of our English writers, from the censure of those who unjustly prefer the French before them. 
