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" A just and lively image of human nature, representing its passions and humours, and the changes of fortune to which it is subject, for the delight and instruction of mankind. "
Essays of John Dryden: Introdcution. List of Dryden's works. Epistle ... - Page 36
by John Dryden - 1900
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The Life and Posthumous Works of Arthur Maynwaring, Esq: Containing Several ...

Arthur Maynwaring - 1715 - 412 pages
...ought to be a juft and lively Image of humane Nature, representing its Pajflons and Humours, end tbe Changes of Fortune, to which it is Subject, for the Delight and Inftruction of Mankind. 7. Horace'* Art of Poetry, I believe, reftores to at the ^d B o/Arift. 5- concerning...
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The Critical and Miscellaneous Prose Works of John Dryden ..., Volume 1, Part 2

John Dryden - 1800 - 624 pages
...private thoughts, when he was to make a judgment of what others writ : that he conceived a play ought to be, A just and lively image of human nature, representing...subject, for the delight and instruction of mankind. order to the watermen to turn their barge, and row softly, that they might take the cool of the evening...
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The Critical and Miscellaneous Prose Works of John Dryden, Now First ...

John Dryden, Edmond Malone - 1800 - 634 pages
...judgment of what others writ: that he eonceived a play ought to be, A just and Kvelj image of hitman nature, representing its passions and humours, and the changes of fortune to which it i$ subject; for the delight and instruction of mankind. This definition, though Critcs raised a logical...
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The Critical and Miscellaneous Prose Works of John Dryden ..., Volume 1, Issue 2

John Dryden, Edmond Malone - 1800 - 591 pages
...private thoughts, when he was to make a judgment of what others writ : that he Conceived a play ought to be, A just and lively image of human nature, representing its passions and honours, and the changes of fortune to which it is fubjeci ; for the delight and instruction of mankind^...
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Specimens of English prose-writers, from the earliest times to the ..., Volume 3

George Burnett - 1807 - 556 pages
...some desultory talking, the dispute is limited to dramatic poetry, when Lisideius* defines a play to be : A just and lively image of human nature, representing...subject, for the delight and instruction of mankind." I have room only for his admirable characters of our principal dramatists. * The characters In this...
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Specimens of English Prose Writers: From the Earliest Times to the Close of ...

George Burnett - 1807 - 548 pages
...some desultory talking, the dispute is limited to dramatic poetry, when Lisideius* defines a play to be : A just and lively image of human nature, representing...subject, for the delight and instruction of mankind." I have room only for his admirable characters of our principal dramatists. * The characters in this...
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Specimens of English Prose Writers: From the Earliest Times to the ..., Volume 3

George Burnett - 1807 - 1152 pages
...the dispute is limited to dramatic poetry, when Lisideius* defines a play to be : • - A just'and lively image of human nature, representing its passions...fortune to which it is subject, for the delight and in- * st ruction of mankind." , * I have room only for his admirable characters of our principal dramatists....
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The Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected ...

John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808 - 432 pages
...private thoughts, when he was to make a judgment of what others writ : that he conceived a play ought to be, " A just and lively image of human nature, representing...mankind." This definition (though Crites raised a logical objection against it — that it was only a genere etjine, and so not altogether perfect) was yet well...
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The Works of the British Poets: With Lives of the Authors, Volume 11

Ezekiel Sanford - 1819 - 410 pages
...of dramatic poesy, in its definition," * s A just and lively image of human nature, representing iti passions and humours, and the changes of fortune to...subject, for the delight and instruction of mankind.' P. 303, which was to cause delight, was of consequence destroyed. ' In their comedies, the Romans generally...
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The Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected in Eighteen Volumes, Volume 15

John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1821 - 432 pages
...private thoughts, when he was to make a judgment of what others writ: that he conceived a play ought to be, " A just and lively image of human nature, representing...mankind." This definition (though Crites raised a logical objection against it—that it was only dgenere etjine, and so not altogether perfect) was yet well...
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