 | John Dryden, Edmond Malone - 1800 - 580 lehte
...proper to them ; and from both these, if they are judiciously performed, the delight of poetry results. An Opera is a poetical tale or fiction, represented by vocal and instrumental and Pope, in one of his letters to Mr. Cromwell, has adopted it. It is however certainly not only no... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808 - 462 lehte
...proper to them ; and from both these, if they are judiciously performed, the delight of poetry results. An opera is a poetical tale, or fiction, represented...music, adorned with scenes, machines, and dancing. The supposed persons of this musical drama are generally supernatural, as gods, and goddesses, and... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808 - 460 lehte
...proper to them ; and from both these, if they are judiciously performed, the delight of poetry results. An opera is a poetical tale, or fiction, represented...music, adorned with scenes, machines, and dancing. The supposed persons of this musical drama are generally supernatural, as gods, and goddesses, and... | |
 | Allatson Burgh - 1814 - 524 lehte
...are admirable, and in many respects still applicable to similar exhibitions. " An opera," says he, " is a poetical tale or fiction, " represented by vocal...music, " adorned with scenes, machines, and dancing. The " supposed persons of this musical drama are gene« *' rally supernatural, as gods and goddesses,... | |
 | London ball-room - 1825 - 170 lehte
...incorporated with the opera in this country till long afterwards, yet Dryden had defined an opera to be " a fiction, represented by vocal and instrumental music, adorned with scenes, machines, and dances ;"" and of this department of our drama the earliest and greatest ornament was Grimaldi Nicolini,... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 824 lehte
...opera, from the Lat. opera. A species of dramatic representation, defined in the extract from Dryden. An opera is a poetical tale or fiction, represented by vocal and instrumental musick, adorned with scenes, machines, and dancing. Dryden. You will hear what plays were acted that... | |
 | William Pinnock - 1830 - 576 lehte
...had no rhythm,f because we have no proof that they marked the different length of their notes. 1 8. It is highly probable, that they introduced occasionally...to any motion whatever. This word is distinct from RHYMP,, which signifies an harmonical succession of sounds ; the agreeing of the sounds of words with... | |
 | George Hogarth - 1838 - 494 lehte
...performance which, in many respects, are of permanent and universal application. "An opera," he says, "is a poetical tale or fiction, represented by vocal...music, adorned with scenes, machines, and dancing. The supposed persons of this musical drama are generally supernatural, as gods and goddesses, and heroes,... | |
 | William Bolles - 1846 - 700 lehte
...Openness, 6'pn-nes, n. plainness, clearness, freedom from obscurity or ambiguity. Opera, op-fir &, n. a poetical tale or fiction, represented by vocal and...music, adorned with scenes, machines, and dancing. Operate, op-fir-A't. vi. to act, to have agency, to produce effects ; to perform some surgical operation.... | |
 | James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - 1852 - 814 lehte
...may clearly understand each other's views, you give me your definition of an opera. D. Readily^. ' An opera is a poetical tale or fiction, represented by vocal and instrumental music. The supposed persons of this musical drama are generally supernatural, as gods, goddesses, and heroes.... | |
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An opera is a poetical tale, or fiction, represented by vocal and instrumental music, adorned with scenes, machines, and dancing. The supposed persons of this musical drama are generally supernatural... 
