 | Hindus - English drama - 1835 - 450 pages
...refinement, and more luxurious indulgence, and a proportionate deterioration of moral feeling. The RETNAVALI, considered also under a purely literary point of view,...evident that there is in it no poetic spirit, no gleam of inspiration, scarce even enough to suggest a conceit in the ideas. The only poetry of the play,... | |
 | George Turnour - Pali literature - 1836 - 390 pages
...refinement, and more luxurious indulgence, and a proportionate deterioration of moral feeling. The Retnavali, considered also under a purely literary point of view,...evident that there is in it no poetic spirit, no gleam of inspiration, scarce even enough to suggest a conceit in the ideas. The only poetry of the play,... | |
 | English drama - 1871 - 430 pages
...refinement, and more luxurious indulgence, and a proportionate deterioration of moral feeling. The RATNAVALI, considered also under a purely literary point of view,...evident that there is in it no poetic spirit, no gleam of inspiration, scarce even enough to suggest a conceit in the * The Vdtava-Dattd of Subandhu, the... | |
 | John Garrett - Hinduism - 1871 - 980 pages
...translated by Professor Wilson ; who states, that considered under a purely literary point of view it marks a change in the principles of dramatic composition,...want of passion, and the substitution of intrigue, there is in it no poetic spirit, no gleam of inspiration. The only poetry of the play is in fact mechanical.... | |
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considered also under a purely literary point of view, marks a change in the principles of dramatic composition, as well as in those of social organization. Besides the want of passion and the substitution of intrigue, it will be very evident that there... 