 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 754 lehte
...Metetti Serventur leges, malint a Cesare tolli.1 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... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 752 lehte
...wee Metelli Senentur leges, malint a Casare lolli.1 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... | |
 | 1909 - 498 lehte
...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 deliberatively written, may recal the principles of the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1908 - 256 lehte
...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...deduction from its strength ; but the principal beauty iof a citadel is to exclude the enemy ; and the greatest graces of a play, are to copy nature and instruct... | |
 | Gay Wilson Allen, Harry Hayden Clark - 1962 - 676 lehte
...those that are to be decided by mere authority, but because it is to be suspected that these pre cepts have not been so easily received, but for better reasons...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... | |
 | Thora Burnley Jones, Bernard De Bear Nicol - 1976 - 200 lehte
...out of English criticism:10 10 Nichol Smith, Eighteenth Century Essays. The result of my enquiries, in which it would be ludicrous to boast of impartiality,...citadel, without any deduction from its strength; but the principle beauty of a citadel is to exclude the enemy; and the greatest graces of a play, are to copy... | |
 | Michael J. Sidnell - 1991 - 298 lehte
...years are not so great that the laws would not rather be abolished by Caesar than upheld by Metellus." sometimes conduce to pleasure, they are always to...graces of a play, are to copy nature and instruct life. Perhaps what I have here not dogmatically but deliberatively written may recall the principles of the... | |
 | Brian Vickers - 1995 - 585 lehte
...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 deliberatively1 written may recal the principles of the... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2001 - 448 lehte
...contemplated as an elaborate curiosity, as the product of superfluous and ostentations art, by which is shewn, rather what is possible, than what is necessary. '...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... | |
 | Nick Potter, Nicholas Potter - 2000 - 198 lehte
...inconsistent and yet Johnson also says in the Preface, immediately after the phrase just quoted: • He that, without diminution of any other excellence,...graces of a play are to copy nature and instruct life. 49 D He does not say that accordance with the unities must not be attempted, nor that the attempt successfully... | |
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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... 
