 | John Dryden - 1800 - 624 pages
...that since no man spoke any kind of verse extempore, that which was nearest nature was to be prefeWed. I answer you, therefore, by distinguishing betwixt...nature wrought up to an higher pitch. The plot, the charaters, the wit, the passions, the descriptions, are all exalted above the level of common converse,... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - English literature - 1808 - 432 pages
...confessed by me, that since no man spoke any kind of verse extempore, that which was nearest nature was to be preferred. I answer you, therefore, by distinguishing...nature wrought up to an higher pitch. The plot, the characters, the wit, the passions, the descriptions, are all exalted above the level of common converse,... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - English literature - 1821 - 442 pages
...confessed by me, that since no man spoke any kind of verse extempore, that which was nearest nature was to be preferred. I answer you, therefore, by distinguishing...nature wrought up to an higher pitch. The plot, the characters, the wit, the passions, the descriptions, are all exalted above the level of common converse,... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1821 - 432 pages
...confessed by me, that since no man spoke any kind of verse extempore, that which was nearest nature was to be preferred. I answer you, therefore, by distinguishing...serious play: this last is indeed the representation j of nature, but 'tis nature wrought up to an higher Vjpitch. The plot, the characters, the wit, the... | |
 | John Dryden, John Mitford - English literature - 1836 - 488 pages
..." The Indian Uueen,"by Sir Robert Howard and Dryiien ; and "The Indian Emperor." bv Uryflen alone. to the nature of comedy, which is the imitation of...this last is indeed the representation of nature, but Us nature wrought up to a higher pitch. The plot, the characters, the wit, the passions, the descriptions,... | |
 | Eugen Kölbing, Johannes Hoops, Reinald Hoops - Comparative linguistics - 1881 - 536 pages
...natur der komödie und dem, was der natur eines ernsten stückes am nächsten steht, unterscheiden. »This last is indeed the representation of nature...nature wrought up to an higher pitch. The plot, the characters, the wit , the passions , the descriptions , are all exalted above the level of common converse,... | |
 | John Dryden - Drama - 1889 - 208 pages
...confessed by me, that since no man spoke any kind of verse 10 extempore, that which was nearest nature was to be preferred. I answer you, therefore, by distinguishing...speaking, and what is nearest the nature of a serious 15 play : this last is indeed the representatien of nature, but 'tis nature wrought up to an higher... | |
 | John Dryden - Drama - 1889 - 176 pages
...the imitation of common persons and ordinary speaking, and what is nearest the nature of a serious 15 play : this last is indeed the representation of nature,...but 'tis nature wrought up to an higher pitch. The i / plot, the characters, the wit, the passions, the descriptions, are all exalted above the level... | |
 | John Dryden - 1892 - 428 pages
...; and " The Indian Emperor," by Dryden alone. J [First edition colloquially omits " that." — ED.] be preferred. I answer you, therefore, by distinguishing...nature wrought up to an higher pitch. The plot, the characters, the wit, the passions, the descriptions, are all exalted above the level of common converse,... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - English literature - 1892 - 428 pages
...; and " The Indian Emperor," by Dryden alone. J [First edition colloquially omits " that." — ED.] be preferred. I answer you, therefore, by distinguishing...nature wrought up to an higher pitch. The plot, the characters, the wit, the passions, the descriptions, are all exalted above the level of common converse,... | |
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I answer you, therefore, by distinguishing betwixt what is nearest to the nature of comedy, — which is the imitation of common persons and ordinary speaking, — and what is nearest the nature of a serious play. "This last is indeed the representation... 
