 | John Dryden, Edmond Malone - 1800 - Počet stránok 591
...'since no man spoke any kind of verse extempore, that which was nearest nature was to be preferred. I answer you, therefore, by distinguishing betwixt...carry them, with proportion to verisimility. Tragedy, vye know, is wont to image to us the minds and fortunes of noble persons^ and to portray these exactly... | |
 | John Dryden, Edmond Malone - 1800 - Počet stránok 634
...the representation of nature, but 'tis nature wrought up to an higher pitch. The plot, the charatcrs, the wit, the passions, the descriptions, are all '...as the imagination of the poet can carry them, with projxjrtion to vcrisimility. Tragedy, we know, is wont to image to us the minds and fortunes of noble... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808 - Počet stránok 432
...representation of nature, but 'tis nature wrought up to an higher pitch. The plot, the characters, the wit, the passions, the descriptions, are all exalted...us the minds and fortunes of noble persons, and to pourtray these exactly ; heroic rhyme is nearest nature, as being the noblest kind of modern verse.... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808 - Počet stránok 564
...the Indians worshipt, and heroes more lawless than their savages." — Ce«ture of the Rotu. alted above the level of common converse, as high as the...us the minds and fortunes of noble persons, and to pourtray these exactly ; heroic rhyme is nearest nature, as being the noblest kind of modern verse.... | |
 | 1845 - Počet stránok 816
...indeed the representation of nature, but nature wrought up to an high pitch. The plot, the characters, the wit, the passions, the descriptions, are all exalted...carry them, with proportion to verisimility. Tragedy is wont to image to us the minds and fortunes of noble persons ; and to portray these exactly, heroic... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1821 - Počet stránok 442
...representation of nature, but 'tis nature wrought up to an higher pitch. The plot, the characters, the wit, the passions, the descriptions, are all exalted...us the minds and fortunes of noble persons, and to pourtray these exactly ; heroic rhyme is nearest nature, as being the noblest kind of modern verse.... | |
 | John Dryden - 1821 - Počet stránok 570
...the Indians worshipt, and heroes more lawless than their savages."— Cen • sure of the Rota. alted above the level of common converse, as high as the...us the minds and fortunes of noble persons, and to pourtray these exactly ; heroic rhyme is nearest nature, as being the noblest kind of modern verse.... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1826 - Počet stránok 526
...colloquial diction. Dryden has himself assigned the following reasons : — « The plot, the characters, the wit, the passions, the descriptions, are all exalted...us the minds and fortunes of noble persons, and to pourtray these exactly; heroic rhyme is nearest nature, as being the noblest kind of modern verse.... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1826 - Počet stránok 532
...colloquial diction. Dryden has himself assigned the following reasons : — « The plot, the characters, the wit, the passions, the descriptions, are all exalted...us the minds and fortunes of noble persons, and to pourtray these exactly; heroic rhyme is nearest nature, as being the noblest kind of modern verse.... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1827 - Počet stránok 566
...ever the Indians worshipt, and heroes more lawless than their savages." — Censure of the Rota. alted above the level of common converse, as high as the...us the minds and fortunes of noble persons, and to pourtray these exactly ; heroic rhyme is nearest nature, as being the noblest kind of modem verse.... | |
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This last is indeed the representation of nature, but 'tis nature wrought up to an higher pitch. The plot, the characters, the wit, the passions, the descriptions are all exalted above the level of common converse, as high as the imagination of the poet... 
