 | Samuel Johnson - 1823 - 436 ページ
...contemplated as an elaborate curiosity, as the product of superfluous and ostentatious art, by which is shewn, rather what is possible, than what is necessary. He...graces of a play are to copy nature, and instruct life. Perhaps, what I have here not dogmatically but deliberately written, may recall the principles of the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1823 - 432 ページ
...contemplated as an elaborate curiosity, as the product of superfluous and ostentatious art, by which is shewn, rather what is possible, than what is necessary. He...the greatest graces of a play are to copy nature, andjnX struct life. Perhaps, what I have here not dogmatically but deliberately written, may recall... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1824 - 794 ページ
...contemplated as an elaborate curiosity, as the product of superfluous and ostentatious an, by which is shewn, ry an immediate regard to the subsistence of herself...very idiot. There is not, in my opinion, any thing tlie principal beauty of a citadel is to exclude the enemy ; and the greatest graces of a play are... | |
 | George Walker - 1825 - 668 ページ
...Metelli Serventur leges, malint a Caesare tolli. Yet when I speak thus slightly of dramatic rules, I cannot but recollect how much wit and learning may...graces of a play are to copy nature, and instruct life. Perhaps, what I have here not dogmatically but deliberately written, may recall the principles of the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 504 ページ
...Mctclli Serventur leges, malint a Catsare tolli. Yet when I speak thus slightly of dramatick rules, I cannot but recollect how much wit and learning may...graces of a play are to copy nature, and instruct life. Perhaps, what I have here not dogmatically but deliberately written, may recall the principles of the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 502 ページ
...Melelli Serve:itur leges, malint a Csesare tolli. Yet when I speak thus slightly of dramatick rules, I cannot but recollect how much wit and learning may...the enemy ; and the greatest graces of a play are to copj nature^aud instruct life. Perhaps, what I have here not dogmatically but deliberately written,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 504 ページ
...pleasure, they are always to be sacrificed to the nobler beauties of variety and in- C/ struction ; and that a play written with nice observation of critical...graces of a play are to copy nature, and instruct life. V Perhaps, what I have here not dogmatically but deliberately written, may recall the principles of... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 750 ページ
...curiosity, aa the product of superfluous and ostentatious art, by which ¡я shown, rather what it possible, than what is necessary. He that, without...citadel is to exclude the enemy ; and the greatest grace« of a play are to copy nature, and instruct life. Perhaps, what I have here not dogmatically... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1832 - 364 ページ
...Metelli Serventur leges, malint a Caesare toll). Yet when I speak thus slightly of dramatic rules, I cannot but recollect how much wit and learning may...graces of a play are to copy nature, and instruct life. Perhaps, what I have here not dogmatically but deliberately written, may recal the principles of the... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1832 - 392 ページ
...received, but for far better reasons than I have yet been able to find. The result of my enquiries, in which it would be ludicrous to boast of impartiality,...graces of a play are to copy nature and instruct life." — Preface to Skakspeare.] DRAMATIS PERSONS. MEN. SARDANAPALUS, King of Nineveh and Assyria, $c. AEBACES,... | |
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He that, without diminution of any other excellence, shall preserve all the unities unbroken deserves the like applause with the architect who shall display all the orders of architecture in a citadel without any deduction from its strength; but the principal... 
