 | John Matthews Manly - 1909 - 544 стор.
...private thoughts, when he was to make a judgment of what others writ : that he conceived a play ought to be, "A just and lively image of human nature, representing...subject, for the delight and instruction of mankind." This definition (though Crites raised a logical objection against it — that it was only a genere... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - 1909 - 544 стор.
...private thoughts, when he was to make a judgment of what others writ: that he conceived a play ought to be, "A just and lively image of human nature, representing its passions and humours, and the .chartges of fortune to which it is subject, for the delight and instruction of mankind." This definition... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - 1909 - 544 стор.
...private thoughts, when he was to make a judgment of what others writ : that he conceived a play ought to be, "A just and lively image of human nature, representing its passions and humours, and i the changes of fortune to which it is subject, *for the delightgnd instruction of mankind." This... | |
 | 1892
...Lisideius, being importuned, suggests one which is to serve as a basis for the discussion : a play " ought to be a just and lively image of human nature, representing its passions and humors, and the changes of fortune to which it is subject, for the delight and instruction of mankind."... | |
 | Charles Frederick Johnson - 1909 - 386 стор.
...ancients in most kinds of poesy and in some surpass them.' Lisideius says that ' he conceived a play ought to be a just and lively image of human nature, representing its passions and humors and the changes of fortune to which it is subject, for the delight and instruction of mankind,'... | |
 | Barrett Harper Clark - 1918 - 501 стор.
...private thoughts, when he was to make a judgment of what others writ: that he conceived a play ought to be, A just and lively image of human nature, representing its passions and liumors, and the changes of fortune to which it is subject, for the deUaht and instruction of mankind.... | |
 | John Dryden - 1921 - 299 стор.
...private thoughts, when he was to make a judgment of what others writ: that he conceived a play ought to be, A just and lively image of human nature, representing...subject, for the delight and instruction of mankind. This definition, though Crites raised a logical objection against it — that it was only genere etfine,... | |
 | H. James Jensen - 1969 - 135 стор.
...art destined for the stage, a dramatic production. Dryden (or rather Lisideius) says, "A play ought to be a just and lively image of human nature, representing...subject, for the delight and instruction of mankind" (I. 25) . It differs from an opera in that it depends neither on music nor on supernatural characters:... | |
 | John Reichert - 1977 - 222 стор.
...FUNCTION OF LITERATURE In Dryden's Essay of Dramatic Poesy, Lisideius offers a definition of a play as "a just and lively image of human nature, representing...subject, for the delight and instruction of mankind." But his friend Crites, always somewhat fussy, twits him and raises "a logical objection against it;... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - 319 стор.
...classical, modern French, Elizabethan, and Restoration plays, in which everyone agrees to define a play as "a just and lively image of human nature, representing...subject, for the delight and instruction of mankind." The very fact that Dryden cast this essay into dialogue form, where different people, each representing... | |
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A just and lively image of human nature, representing its passions and humours, and the changes of fortune to which it is subject, for the delight and instruction of mankind. 
