 | John Dryden - 1898 - 232 pages
...the wit, the passions, the description, are all exalted above the level of common converse, as high as the imagination of the poet can carry them, with proportion to verisimility." By following out the two lines of argument based on these two definitions of natural, the reader can... | |
 | John Dryden - 1900 - 412 pages
...sometimes it is the Ideal. Thus Dryden refers to Nature to justify heroic couplets in serious drama ; ' heroic rhyme is nearest Nature, as being the noblest kind of modern verse.' It might seem as if there were little value in a conception so vague, so mutable, so easily turned... | |
 | William John Courthope - 1903 - 642 pages
...the wit, the passions, the description, 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 - 1903 - 222 pages
...wont to image to us the minds and fortunes of noble persons, and to portray these exactly ; heroick rhyme is nearest nature, as being the noblest kind...privatis et prope socco Dignis carminibus narrari ccena Thyestoc*— says Horace : and in another place, Effutire leves indigna tragcedia versus" —... | |
 | 1903 - 402 pages
...high as the Imagination of the Poet can carry them, with proportion to verisimility [verisimilitude] . 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.... | |
 | John Dryden - 1903 - 220 pages
...wont to image to us the minds and fortunes of noble persons, and to portray these exactly ; heroick rhyme is nearest nature, as being the noblest kind of modern verse. »5 Indignatur cnim privatis et propc socco Dignis carminibus narrari ccena Thyesta*— says Horace : and in another... | |
 | Friedrich Hannmann - 1903 - 96 pages
...the Wit, the Passions, the Description, are all exalted above the Level of Common Converse, as high as the Imagination of the Poet can carry them, with proportion to Verisimility (p. XC)«. So ist denn, der heroische vers das wirksamste und natürlichste für die tragödie. —... | |
 | John Dryden, George Villiers Duke of Buckingham - 1910 - 582 pages
...beauty of each other" (3s. I1. 137). 2. In the dedication of The Rival Ladies Dryden had written : "In the imagination of the poet can carry them, with proportion...noble persons, and to portray these exactly; heroic rime is nearest nature, 1 as being the noblest kind of modern verse." 2 (c) Finally, rime is valuable... | |
 | John Dryden, George Villiers Duke of Buckingham - 1910 - 570 pages
...smartness of the answer, and the sweetness of the rime, set off the beauty of each other" (Ss. II. 137). imagination of the poet can carry them, with proportion...noble persons, and to portray these exactly ; heroic rime is nearest nature,1 as being the noblest kind of modern verse."2 (c) Finally, rime is valuable... | |
 | Edgar Frederick Carritt - 1914 - 328 pages
...for an end of his own. " Whenever we admire a representation our 1 Essay of Dramatic Poesy. Also " Tragedy, we know, is wont to image to us the minds...Nature, as being the noblest kind of modern verse." delight is really directed to what is represented. That we should be unconscious of this is not surprising,... | |
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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... 
