 | John Dryden - 1800 - 624 pages
...the wit, the passions, the descriptions, are all exalted above the level of common converse, as high as the imagination of the poet can carry them, with...fortunes of noble persons, and to portray these exactly ; heroick rhyme is nearest nature, as being the noblest kind of modern verse. Indignatitr emm privatis,... | |
 | John Dryden, Edmond Malone - 1800 - 634 pages
...converse, as high as the imagination of the poet can carry them, with projxjrtion to vcrisimility. Tragedy, we know, is wont to image to us the minds...fortunes of noble persons, and to portray these exactly; hcroick rhyme is nearest nature, as being the noblest kind of modern verse. Indignatnr rnim pnvafit,... | |
 | John Dryden, Edmond Malone - 1800 - 591 pages
...the wit, the passions, the descriptions, are all exalted above the level of common converse, as high as the imagination of the poet can carry them, with proportion to verisimility. Tragedy, vye know, is wont to image to us the minds and fortunes of noble persons^ and to portray these exactly... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808 - 564 pages
...lawless than their savages." — Ce«ture of the Rotu. alted above the level of common converse, as high as the imagination of the poet can carry them, with...us the minds and fortunes of noble persons, and to pourtray these exactly ; heroic rhyme is nearest nature, as being the noblest kind of modern verse.... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808 - 432 pages
...verisimility. Tragedy, we know, is wont to image to us the minds and fortunes of noble persons, and to pourtray these exactly ; heroic rhyme is nearest nature, as being the noblest kind of modern verse. Indignatur enim privatis, et prope socco Dignis, carminibus, narrari coma T/iyeste,— says Horace:... | |
 | 1845 - 816 pages
...the wit, the passions, the descriptions, are all exalted above the level of common converse, as high as the imagination of the poet can carry them, with proportion to verisimility. Tragedy is wont to image to us the minds and fortunes of noble persons ; and to portray these exactly, heroic... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1821 - 442 pages
...the wit, the passions, the descriptions, are all exalted above the level of common converse, as high as the imagination of the poet can carry them, with...us the minds and fortunes of noble persons, and to pourtray these exactly ; heroic rhyme is nearest nature, as being the noblest kind of modern verse.... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1821 - 432 pages
...Tragedy, we know, is wont to image to us the minds and fortunes of noble persons, and to potirtray these exactly ; heroic rhyme is nearest nature, as being the noblest kind of modern verse. presented as the effect of sudden thought, but no man speaks suddenly, or extempore, in rhyme ; and... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1826 - 526 pages
...the wit, the passions, the descriptions, are all exalted above the level of common converse, as high as the imagination of the poet can carry them, with...us the minds and fortunes of noble persons, and to pourtray these exactly; heroic rhyme is nearest nature, as being the noblest kind of modern verse.... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1826 - 532 pages
...the wit, the passions, the descriptions, are all exalted above the level of common converse, as high as the imagination of the poet can carry them, with...us the minds and fortunes of noble persons, and to pourtray these exactly; heroic rhyme is nearest nature, as being the noblest kind of modern verse.... | |
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This last is indeed the representation of nature, but 'tis 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, as high as the imagination of the poet... 
