 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808 - 516 lehte
...have been placed as Well in the beginning, or the end. To express the passions which are seated in the heart, by outward signs, is one great precept...principal difficulty, as well as the excellency of that art. This, says my author, is the gift of Jupiter; and, to speak in the same heathen language, we call... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808 - 520 lehte
...have been placed as well in the beginning, or the end. To express the passions which are seated in the heart, by outward signs, is one great precept...principal difficulty, as well as the excellency of that art. This, says my author, is the gift of Jupiter; and, to speak in the same heathen language, we call... | |
 | John Dryden - 1808 - 518 lehte
...have been placed as well in. the beginning, or the end. To express the passions which are seated in the heart, by outward signs, is one great precept...principal difficulty, as well as the excellency of that art. This, says my author, is the gift of Jupiter ; and, to speak in the same heathen language, we... | |
 | John Dryden - 1808 - 518 lehte
...have been placed as well in the beginning, or the end. To express the passions which are seated in the heart, by outward signs, is one great precept...principal difficulty, as well as the excellency of that art. This, says my author, is the gift of Jupiter ; and, to speak in the same heathen language, we... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds - 1809 - 368 lehte
...name The Slighted Maid, where there is nothing jn (he first act but what might have been said or dqnc in the fifth; nor any thing in the: midst which might...principal difficulty, as well as the excellency of that art. " This," says my author, "is the gift of Jupiter;" and, to speak in the same heathen language,... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds, Edmond Malone - 1809 - 438 lehte
...beginning or the end. " To express the passions which are seated on the heart by outward signs,' 1 is one great precept of the painters, and very difficult...principal difficulty, as well as the excellency of that art. " This," says my author, " is the gift of Jupiter;" and, to speak in the same heathen language,... | |
 | William Mason - 1811 - 436 lehte
...Picture," is, in the language of poets, to draw up the scenery of a play : and the reason is the same for both ; to guide the undertaking, and to preserve the...principal difficulty, as well as -the excellency of that Art. " This," says my Author, " is the gift of Jupiter ;" and, to speak in the same heathen language,... | |
 | William Mason - 1811 - 432 lehte
...Picture," is, in the language of poets, to draw up the scenery of a play : and the reason is the same for both ; to guide the undertaking, and to preserve the...principal difficulty, as well as the excellency of that Art. " This," says my Author, " is the gift of Jupiter ;" and, to speak in the same heathen language,... | |
 | William Mason - 1811 - 438 lehte
...the fifth; nor any thing in the midst which might not have been placed as well in the beginning o* the end. " To express the passions which are seated...principal difficulty, as well as the excellency of that Art. " This," says my Attttoof, " is the gift of Jupiter ;" and, to speak in the same heathen language,... | |
 | David Erskine Baker - 1812 - 494 lehte
...own breast. Mr. Dryden says, " To express the passions, which " are seated on the heart, by out" ward signs,, is one great precept " of the painters, and...consists the principal " difficulty as well as the excel" lency of that art. This (says " my author) is the gift of Jupiter; " and, to s¡>eak in the... | |
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To express the passions which are seated on the heart by outward signs," is one great precept of the painters, and very difficult to perform. In poetry the same passions and motions of the mind are to be expressed ; and in this consists the principal... 
