 | Charles-Alphonse Dufresnoy - 1783 - 248 стор.
...fictitious, or imaginary. The perfection of fuch ftage characters confifts chiefly in their likenefs to the deficient faulty Nature, which is their original ; only (as it is obferved more at large hereafter) in fuch cafes there will always be found a better likenefs and a... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds, Edmond Malone - 1798 - 394 стор.
...and deficience; such as they have been described to us in Jaistory, if they were real characters j or such as the Poet began, to shew them, at their...only fictitious, or imaginary- The perfection of such stage characters consists chiefly in their likeness to the deficient faulty Nature, which is their... | |
 | John Dryden - 1800 - 674 стор.
...merchant-man, or ship ot trade; and so Shakspeare has used the word in THE TEMPEST, Act II. sc. i. .tain all that might be said on the parallel of these two...found a better likeness and a worse, and the better is constantly to be chosen ; I mean in tragedy, which represents the figures of the highest form amongst... | |
 | John Dryden, Edmond Malone - 1800 - 670 стор.
...merchant-man, or ship of trade ; and so Shakspeare has used the word in THE TEMPEST, Act II. sc. i. tain all that might be said on the parallel of these two...found a better likeness and a worse, and the better is constantly to be chosen ; I mean in tragedy, which represents the figures of the highest form amongst... | |
 | John Dryden - 1800 - 662 стор.
...his preface is to prove, that a learned painter should form to himself an idea of perfect nfcture. This image he is to set before his mind in all his...found a better likeness and a worse, and the better is constantly to be chosen ; I hlean in tragedy, which represents the figures of the highest form amongst... | |
 | John Dryden - 1800 - 674 стор.
...perfection is of little use in portraits, or the resemblances of particular persons, so neither is jt in the characters of comedy and tragedy, which are...found a better likeness and a worse, and the better is constantly to be chosen ; I mean in tragedy, which represents the figures of the highest form amongst... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds, Edmond Malone - 1801 - 388 стор.
...have been described to us in history, if they were real characters; or such as the Poet began to show them, at their first appearance, if they were only fictitious, or imaginary. The perfection of such stage characters consists chiefly in their likeness to the deficient faulty Nature, which is their... | |
 | sir Joshua Reynolds - 1801 - 392 стор.
...have been described to us in history, if they were real characters; or such as the Poet began to show them, at their first appearance, if they were only fictitious, or imaginary. The perfection of such stage characters consists chiefly in their likeness to the deficient faulty Nature, which is their... | |
 | John Dryden - 1808 - 518 стор.
...in protecting the tradf. Perhaps Dryden alluded to the misfortune of Sir Francis Wheeler, in l6£)3, who, being sent with a convoy into the Mediterranean,...found a better likeness and a worse, and the better is constantly to be chosen; I mean in tragedy, which represents the figures of the highest form amongst... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808 - 518 стор.
...protecting the trade. Perhaps Dryden alluded to the misfortune of Sir Francis Wheeler, in 1693, who, bein« sent with a convoy into the Mediterranean, was wrecked...found a better likeness and a worse, and the better is constantly to be chosen ; I mean in tragedy, which re.preseuts the figures of the highest fonn amongst... | |
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The perfection of such stage-characters consists chiefly in their likeness to the deficient faulty nature, which is their original ; only, as it is observed more at large hereafter, in such cases there will always be found a better likeness and a worse,... 
