 | John Dryden, Edmond Malone - English prose literature - 1800 - 591 pages
...superior to the others. 'Tis true, those beauties of the French poesy are such as will raise perfection higher where it is, but are not sufficient to give...of poesy, which is imitation of humour and passions : and this Lisideius himself, or any other, however biassed to their party, cannot but acknowledge,... | |
 | John Dryden - 1800 - 624 pages
...superior to the others. "Pis true, those beauties of the French poesy are such as will raise perfection higher where it is, but are not sufficient to give...of poesy, which is imitation of humour and passions : and this Lisideius himself, or any other, however biassed to their party, cannot but acknowledge,... | |
 | John Dryden, Edmond Malone - 1800 - 634 pages
...true, those beauties of the French poesy are such as will raise perfection higher where it is, but arc not sufficient to give it where it is not: they are indeed the bcanticg_ of a_statuc, but not of a man, because not animated with the soul of poesy, which is imitation... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - English literature - 1808 - 432 pages
...superior to the others. Tis true, those beauties of the French poesy are such as will raise perfection higher where it is, but are not sufficient to give...of poesy, which is imitation of humour and passions : and this Lisideius himself, or any other, however biassed to their party, cannot but acknowledge,... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - English literature - 1821 - 442 pages
...superior to the others. 'Tis true, those beauties of the French poesy are such as will raise perfection higher where it is, but are not sufficient to give...of poesy, which is imitation of humour and passions : and this Lisideius himself, or any other, however biassed to their party, cannot but acknowledge,... | |
 | John Dryden, John Mitford - English literature - 1836 - 488 pages
...superior to the others. *Tis true, those beauties of the French poesy are such as will raise perfection higher where it is, but are not sufficient to give...poesy, which is imitation of humour and passions: and this Lisideius himself, or any other, however biassed to their party, cannot but acknowledge, if... | |
 | John Dryden, John Mitford - 1844 - 536 pages
...true, those heauties of the French poesy are such as will raise perfection higher where it is, hut are not sufficient to give it where it is not : they are indeed the heauties of a statue, hut not of a man, hecause not animated with the soul of poesy, which is imitation... | |
 | John Dryden - 1859 - 482 pages
...sufficient to give it where it u not : they are indeed the heauties of a statue, hut not of a man, hecause not animated with the soul of poesy, which is imitation of humour and passions : and this Lisideius himself, or any other, however hiassed to their party, cannot hut acknowledge,... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - English literature - 1863 - 722 pages
...derrière la scène, « il ya urte sorte d'âpreté farouche 1. The beauties of the French poesy are the beauties of a statue, but not of a man, because...poesy, which is imitation of humour and passions.... He who will lookupon their plays which have beenwritten 'till thcse last ten years or thereabouts,... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - English literature - 1863 - 738 pages
...derrière la scène, « il ya une sorte d'âpreté farouche I. The beauties of the French poesy are the beauties of a statue, but not of a man, because...poesy, which is imitation of humour and passions.... Ile who will look upon their plays whioh have been writt1.-n 'till these last ten years or thereabouts,... | |
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For the lively imitation of nature being in the definition of a play, those which best fulfil that law, ought to be esteemed superior to the others. 'Tis true, those beauties of the French poesy are such as will raise perfection higher where it is, but... 
