The Art of Poetry on a New Plan, Volume 2Gregg, 1969 - Poetry |
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Page 156
... confider the more effential parts of the Drama . --- A Play , according to Mr. Dryden , is " a just and lively " image of human nature , representing its paffions and " humours , and the changes of fortune to which it is & fubject , for ...
... confider the more effential parts of the Drama . --- A Play , according to Mr. Dryden , is " a just and lively " image of human nature , representing its paffions and " humours , and the changes of fortune to which it is & fubject , for ...
Page 163
... confider the temper , the quality , the pre- vailing paffion of the perfon whofe character he is to draw : he himself muft affume as it were , the Manners : of that perfon , and then make him think and speak as , it is probable , fuch a ...
... confider the temper , the quality , the pre- vailing paffion of the perfon whofe character he is to draw : he himself muft affume as it were , the Manners : of that perfon , and then make him think and speak as , it is probable , fuch a ...
Page 232
... confider his excellencies , only ferve to prove , what has been infifted on , and is abun- dantly known , that no human performance can be perfect ; and when we confider the blemishes already mentioned , we are the more amazed at the ...
... confider his excellencies , only ferve to prove , what has been infifted on , and is abun- dantly known , that no human performance can be perfect ; and when we confider the blemishes already mentioned , we are the more amazed at the ...
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