 | Walter Scott - 1837 - 936 páginas
...a Utopia rather than our stage. I do not quarrel with the poet, but admire one born in the decline of morality should be able to feign such exact virtue ; and as poelic fiction has been instructive in former ages, I wish this the same event in ours. As to the strict... | |
 | Elizabeth Stone - 1845 - 484 páginas
...an Utopia rather than our stage. I do not quarrel with the poet, but admire one born in the decline of morality should be able to feign such exact virtue...former ages, I wish this the same event in ours." required such niceties as truth of history, exactness of time, and possibilities of adventure. These... | |
 | John Evelyn - 1870 - 788 páginas
...Professor, and Fellow of the same College. should be able to feigne such exact virtue ; and as poctick fiction has been instructive in former ages, I wish...division of the story not so well as if it could all haue been comprehended in the daycs actions : truth of history, exactnessc of time, possibilities of... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1887 - 428 páginas
...a Utopia rather than our stage. I do not quarrel with the poet, but admire one born in the decline of morality should be able to feign such exact virtue...this the same event in ours. As to the strict law oi comedy I dare not pretend to judge. Some think the division of the story not so well as if it could... | |
 | John Evelyn - 1906 - 542 páginas
...admire one borne in the decline of morality should be able to feigne such exact virtue : and as poetick fiction has been instructive in former ages, I wish...strict law of Comedy I dare not pretend to judge : some thinke the division of the story not so well as if it could all haue ben comprehended in the dayes... | |
 | John Evelyn, Henry Benjamin Wheatley - 1906 - 550 páginas
...admire one borne in the decline of morality should be able to feigne such exact virtue : and as poetick fiction has been instructive in former ages, I wish...strict law of Comedy I dare not pretend to judge : some thinke the division of the story not so well as if it could all haue ben comprehended in the dayes... | |
 | Nancy Klein Maguire - 1992 - 296 páginas
...apparently grasped his revivifying intent; perhaps remembering the court masque, she hopes that 'as poetick fiction has been instructive in former ages, I wish this the same event in ours'.2 In Philip Harth's words, Dryden promoted 'a group psychology as yet unrealized by picturing... | |
 | Susan J. Owen - 2002 - 210 páginas
...borne in the decline of morality should be able to feigne such exact virtue: and as poetick f1ction has been instructive in former ages, I wish this the same event in ours.' 42 Others, as we shall see, were more scathing. Dryden's own prologues and epilogues, rather disconcertingly,... | |
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... The Siege of Grenada," a play so full of ideas that the most refined romance I ever read is not to compare with it ; love is made so pure, and valour so nice, that one would imagine it designed for an Utopia rather than our stage. I do not quarrel... 