...character is regarded as the origin of incident, the drama naturally arises, — " To hold, as 'twere, the mirror up to nature, And show the very age and body of the time, Its form and pressure." In all these kinds of poesy, and in all their combinations and sub-varieties, the imagination holds...

...regarded as the origin of incident, the drama naturally arises, — " To hold, as 'twere, the mirror np to nature, And show the very age and body of the time, Its form and pressure." la all these kinds of poesy, and in all their combinations and sub-varieties, the imagination holds...

...that the players were the ' abstract and brief chronicles of the time,' and that the dramatist should show the ' very age and body of the time, its form and pressure,' deal with the realities around him ; the men whom he knew, the scenes which he saw, the events as they...

...in the days of Charles II., or drunkenness in the days of George III. — the drama, that aspires " to hold the mirror up to nature, and show the very age and body of the time its form and feature," reflects these vices, and the Lord Chamberlain and hia deputy make no objection. In spite...

...days of Charles II., or drunkenness in the 354 355 days of George III. — the drama, th.it aspires " to hold the mirror up to nature, and show the very age and. body of the time its form and feature," reflects these vices, and the Lord Chamberlain and his deputy make no objection. In spite...

...them "the purpose of playing, whose cud, both at the first, and now, was and is, to hold as 'twere, the mirror up to nature, and show the very age and body of the time his form and pressure." The profession know their dramatic catechism better than many of us do...

...his satires too much to the era in which he lived, and therefore a fault. But as his object was to show " The very age and body of the time, Its form and pressure " — we must judge him by what he intended, and we shall find that, like a great genius, he has accomplished...

...hold as 'twere the mirror up to nature; to show virtue her own feature; scorn his own image, and the very age and body of the time its form and pressure.' He is, indeed, only dictating the actor's part; yet in denning 'the purpose of playing,' he has in view...

...is the first and last aim of this art ' to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time its form and pressure ; ' he pressed forward to that artistic height where one common and spiritual idea rules each of his works,...

...it treats are such as might occur in ordinary experience. Novelists, as distinct from Romancers, ' hold the mirror up to nature, and show the very age and body of the time his form and pressure.' The Ideal Romances which flourished after the Renaissance owed their origin...