| John Dryden - 1900 - 348 oldal
...thoroughly as any of the Ancients or Moderns. I will not defend everything in his Venice Preserved ; 30 but I must bear this testimony to his memory, that...but nature is there, which is the greatest beauty. 35 In the passions, says our author, we must have a very great regard to the quality of the persons... | |
| John Dryden - 1900 - 350 oldal
...thoroughly as any of the Ancients or Moderns. I will not defend everything in his Venice Preserved ; 30 but I must bear this testimony to his memory, that...and in the height and elegance of expression ; but I nature is there, which is the greatest beauty. 3p In the passions, says our author, we must have... | |
| Charles Wells Moulton - 1901 - 812 oldal
...bear this testimony to his memory, — that the passions are_truly touched in it, though perhapsThere is somewhat to be desired both in the grounds of them...nature is there, — which is the greatest beauty. — DRYDEN, JOHN, 1695, Du Fresnoy's Art of Painting, Preface. His last and greatest dramatick work,... | |
| William John Courthope - 1903 - 642 oldal
...testimony to his memory, that the passions are truly touched in it, though perhaps there is something to be desired both in the grounds of them, and in...expression ; but nature is there, which is the greatest beauty.1 The oblique censure on the style of this poet is repeated by Pope, who says that Otway failed... | |
| Thomas Otway - 1908 - 410 oldal
...Preserved, but I must bear this testimony to his memory, that the passions are truly tricked in it, though there is somewhat to be desired, both in the grounds...of expression ; but nature is there, which is the greater beauty." And a later able critic, Hazlitt, has rightly drawn attention to "the awful suspense... | |
| Charles Wells Moulton - 1910 - 812 oldal
...Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature, tr. Black, Lecture xii, p. 396. VENICE PRESERVED 1682 I will not defend every thing in his "Venice Preserved;" but...nature is there, — which is the greatest beauty.— DRYDEN, JOHN, 1695, Du Fresnoy's Art of Painting, Preface. His last and greatest dramatick work, "Venice... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1913 - 220 oldal
...acted, and it is of this play that Dryden speaks in the words quoted. ' I will not defend everything in his " Venice Preserved," but I must bear this testimony...but Nature is there, which is the greatest beauty.' Parallel of Poetry and Painting, 1695. There is no authority for the statement that Dryden thought... | |
| John Dryden, William Congreve, Samuel Johnson, Walter Scott - 1925 - 230 oldal
...'. 1. 32. Otway. See Dryden's Parallel of Poetry and Painting, 1695 : ' I will not defend everything in his Venice Preserved ; but I must bear this testimony...but nature is there, which is the greatest beauty ' (Essays, ed. WP Ker, ii. 145). Charles Gildon in his Laws of Poetry, 1721, p. 211, says of Dryden'that... | |
| John Dryden - 1926 - 342 oldal
...thoroughly as any of the Ancients or Moderns. I will not defend everything in his Venice Preserved ; 30 but I must bear this testimony to his memory, that...but nature is there, which is the greatest beauty. 35 3040-2 L In the passions, says our author, we must have a very great regard to the quality of the... | |
| Thomas Otway - 1926 - 352 oldal
...his memory, that the passions are truly touch'd in it, though perhaps there is somewhat to be desir'd both in the grounds of them, and in the height and...but Nature is there, which is the greatest beauty." It was natural that the exceptional success of DOM Carlos and the continued favour with which it was... | |
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