I am satisfied if it cause delight. For delight is the chief, if not the only, end of poesy. Instruction can be admitted but in the second place, for poesy only instructs as it delights. An Essay of Dramatic Poesy - Page 177by John Dryden - 1922 - 179 pagesFull view - About this book
| John Dryden, Edmond Malone - 1800 - 591 pages
...of verse will confess as much, I shall not need to prove that it is natural. I am satisfied, if it cause delight : for delight is the chief, if not the only, end of poesy ; instruction can be admitted but in the second place ; for poesy only instructs as it delights. It... | |
| John Dryden - 1800 - 624 pages
...of verse will confess as much, I shall not need to prove that it is natural. I am satisfied, if it cause delight : for delight is the chief, if not the only, end of poesy : instruction can be admitted but in the second place ; for poesy only instructs as it delights. It... | |
| John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808 - 486 pages
...enemies of verse will confess as much, I shall not need to prove that it is natural. I am satisfied if it cause delight ; for delight is the chief, if not the only, end of poesy : Instruction can be admitted but in the second place, for poesy only instructs as it delights. It... | |
| 1845 - 816 pages
...verse will confess as much, I shall not need to prove that it is natural. I am satisfied if it canse delight ; for delight is the chief, if not the only end of poesy ; instruction can be admitted but in the second place, for poesy only instructs as it delights. It... | |
| John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1821 - 488 pages
...enemies of verse will confess as much, I shall not need to prove that it is natural. I am satisfied if it cause delight ; for delight is the chief, if not the only, end of poesy : Instruction can be admitted but in the second place, for poesy only instructs as it delights. It... | |
| 1845 - 842 pages
...enemies of verse will confess as much, I shall not need to prove that it is natural. I am satisfied if it cause delight ; for delight is the chief, if not the only end of poesy ; instruction can be admitted but in the second place, for poesy only instructs as it delights. It... | |
| 1845 - 816 pages
...enemies of verso will confess as much, I shall not need to prove that it is natural. I am satisfied if it cause delight ; for delight is the chief, if not the only end of poesy ; instruction can be admitted but in the second place, for poesy only instructs as it delights. It... | |
| John Wilson - 1846 - 360 pages
...enemies of verse will confess as much, I shall not need to prove that it is natural. I am satisfied if it cause delight; for delight is the chief, if not the only end of poesy ; instruction can be admitted but in the second place, for poesy only instructs as it delights. It... | |
| 1893 - 958 pages
...Philip Sidney in his Apology for Poetry, was that the end of poetry is "delightful teaching." Dry den was something of a heretic when he ventured to say,...when their artistic faculties were at the best. But it is needful to distinguish between this view as it was held in Hellenistic or Roman times and as... | |
| 1868 - 690 pages
...any kind of verse in real life. But the argument for rhyme is of another kind. " I am satisfied if it cause delight, for delight is the chief if not the only end of poesy [he should have said means} ; instruction can be admitted but in the second place, for poesy only instructs... | |
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