...contemplated as an elaborate curiosity, as the product of superfluous and ostentatious art, by which is shewn, rather what is possible, than what is necessary. He...graces of a play are to copy nature, and instruct life. Perhaps, what I have here not dogmatically but deliberately written, may recall the principles of the...

...contemplated as an elaborate curiosity, as the product of superfluous and ostentatious art, by which is shewn, rather what is possible, than what is necessary. He...the greatest graces of a play are to copy nature, andjnX struct life. Perhaps, what I have here not dogmatically but deliberately written, may recall...

...contemplated as an elaborate curiosity, as the product of superfluous and ostentatious an, by which is shewn, ry an immediate regard to the subsistence of herself...very idiot. There is not, in my opinion, any thing tlie principal beauty of a citadel is to exclude the enemy ; and the greatest graces of a play are...

...Metelli Serventur leges, malint a Caesare tolli. Yet when I speak thus slightly of dramatic rules, I cannot but recollect how much wit and learning may...graces of a play are to copy nature, and instruct life. Perhaps, what I have here not dogmatically but deliberately written, may recall the principles of the...

...Mctclli Serventur leges, malint a Catsare tolli. Yet when I speak thus slightly of dramatick rules, I cannot but recollect how much wit and learning may...graces of a play are to copy nature, and instruct life. Perhaps, what I have here not dogmatically but deliberately written, may recall the principles of the...

...Melelli Serve:itur leges, malint a Csesare tolli. Yet when I speak thus slightly of dramatick rules, I cannot but recollect how much wit and learning may...the enemy ; and the greatest graces of a play are to copj nature^aud instruct life. Perhaps, what I have here not dogmatically but deliberately written,...

...pleasure, they are always to be sacrificed to the nobler beauties of variety and in- C/ struction ; and that a play written with nice observation of critical...graces of a play are to copy nature, and instruct life. V Perhaps, what I have here not dogmatically but deliberately written, may recall the principles of...

...curiosity, aa the product of superfluous and ostentatious art, by which ¡я shown, rather what it possible, than what is necessary. He that, without...citadel is to exclude the enemy ; and the greatest grace« of a play are to copy nature, and instruct life. Perhaps, what I have here not dogmatically...

...Metelli Serventur leges, malint a Caesare toll). Yet when I speak thus slightly of dramatic rules, I cannot but recollect how much wit and learning may...graces of a play are to copy nature, and instruct life. Perhaps, what I have here not dogmatically but deliberately written, may recal the principles of the...

...received, but for far better reasons than I have yet been able to find. The result of my enquiries, in which it would be ludicrous to boast of impartiality,...graces of a play are to copy nature and instruct life." — Preface to Skakspeare.] DRAMATIS PERSONS. MEN. SARDANAPALUS, King of Nineveh and Assyria, $c. AEBACES,...