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" A just and lively image of human nature, representing its passions and humours, and the changes of fortune to which it is subject, for the delight and instruction of mankind. "
The Works of John Dryden: In Verse and Prose, with a Life - Page 225
by John Dryden, John Mitford - 1836
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The Critical and Miscellaneous Prose Works of John Dryden ..., 1. köide,2. osa

John Dryden - 1800 - 624 lehte
...rather a description than a definition ; but which served to guide him in his private thoughts, when he was to make a judgment of what others writ : that...subject, for the delight and instruction of mankind. order to the watermen to turn their barge, and row softly, that they might take the cool of the evening...
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The Critical and Miscellaneous Prose Works of John ..., 1. köide,2. number

John Dryden, Edmond Malone - 1800 - 591 lehte
...rather a description than a definition ; but which served to guide him in his private thoughts, when he was to make a judgment of what others writ : that...image of human nature, representing its passions and honours, and the changes of fortune to which it is fubjeci ; for the delight and instruction of mankind^...
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Specimens of English prose-writers, from the earliest times to the ..., 3. köide

George Burnett - 1807 - 556 lehte
...After some desultory talking, the dispute is limited to dramatic poetry, when Lisideius* defines a play to be : A just and lively image of human nature, representing...subject, for the delight and instruction of mankind." I have room only for his admirable characters of our principal dramatists. * The characters In this...
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Specimens of English Prose Writers: From the Earliest Times to the Close of ...

George Burnett - 1807 - 548 lehte
...After some desultory talking, the dispute is limited to dramatic poetry, when Lisideius* defines a play to be : A just and lively image of human nature, representing...subject, for the delight and instruction of mankind." I have room only for his admirable characters of our principal dramatists. * The characters in this...
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Specimens of English Prose Writers: From the Earliest Times to the ..., 3. köide

George Burnett - 1807 - 1152 lehte
...the dispute is limited to dramatic poetry, when Lisideius* defines a play to be : • - A just'and lively image of human nature, representing its passions...fortune to which it is subject, for the delight and in- * st ruction of mankind." , * I have room only for his admirable characters of our principal dramatists....
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The Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected ...

John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808 - 432 lehte
...rather a description than a definition ; but which served to guide him in his private thoughts, when he was to make a judgment of what others writ : that...logical objection against it — that it was only a genere etjine, and so not altogether perfect) was yet well received by the rest : and after they...
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The Works of the British Poets: With Lives of the Authors, 11. köide

Ezekiel Sanford - 1819 - 410 lehte
...of dramatic poesy, in its definition," * s A just and lively image of human nature, representing iti passions and humours, and the changes of fortune to...subject, for the delight and instruction of mankind.' P. 303, which was to cause delight, was of consequence destroyed. ' In their comedies, the Romans generally...
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The Works of John Dryden,: Now First Collected in Eighteen Volumes

John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1821 - 442 lehte
...rather a description than a definition ; but which served to guide him in his private thoughts, when he was to make a judgment of what others writ: that he...logical objection against it — that it was only dgenere etjine, and so not altogether perfect) was yet well received by the rest : and after they had...
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The Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected in Eighteen Volumes, 15. köide

John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1821 - 432 lehte
...rather a description than a definition ; but which served to guide him in his private thoughts, when he was to make a judgment of what others writ: that he...(though Crites raised a logical objection against it—that it was only dgenere etjine, and so not altogether perfect) was yet well received by the rest:...
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The Drama: Or, Theatrical Pocket Magazine, 1. köide

1821 - 436 lehte
...writer has justly remarked that a play ought to be a correct image of human nature, representing its humours and the changes of fortune to which it is...subject, for the delight and instruction of mankind. In short, the stage should be a mirror, shewing the passions and manners of the age as they exist....
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