 | John Dryden - 1900 - 412 pàgines
...thoughts, when he was to make a judgment of what others writ : that he conceived a play ought to 5 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 objec10 tion against it; that it was only a genere... | |
 | John Dryden - 1900 - 420 pàgines
...thoughts, when he was to make a judgment of what others writ : that he conceived a play ought to 5 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 objec10 tion against it; that it was only a genere... | |
 | 1902 - 786 pàgines
...that he would ' whistle Waterloo" . . ." Discuss this from the Greek point of view. 4. (a) Tragedy is "a just and lively image of human nature, representing...subject, for the delight and instruction of mankind." — DRYDEN (Essay of Dramatic Poesy). Compare this with Aristotle's definition throughout, and shew... | |
 | George Saintsbury - 1902 - 628 pàgines
...of the company, subject to a slight scholastic objection from Crites) defined or described a play as "A just and lively image of human nature, representing...subject, for the delight and instruction of mankind," Crites takes up his brief for the ancients. His speech is a set one, extolling the classical conception... | |
 | 1903 - 402 pàgines
...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 et... | |
 | 1903 - 434 pàgines
...and the austere restraints imposed by the canons of the classical drama. Assuming that a drama should be ' a just and lively image of human nature, representing...subject, for the delight and instruction of mankind,' it is shown that this end can only be attained in a drama founded on such a compromise ; that the ancient... | |
 | John Dryden - 1903 - 222 pàgines
...ought to be, A just and lively image of 20 J human nature, representing its passions and humours, I and the changes of fortune to which it is subject, for the || delight and instruction of mankind. This definition, though Crites raised a logical objection against it — that it was only a genere... | |
 | Marcus Tullius Cicero - 1905 - 198 pàgines
...Comedy as a mirror of life and manners may be compared with Dryden's definition of what a play ought to be. " A just and lively image of human nature,...subject, for the delight and instruction of mankind." Essay of Dramatic Poesy. 48 12- sis] ' please,' contraction for si vis, a colloquialism, frequent in... | |
 | John Gay - 1711 - 86 pàgines
...and the austere restraints imposed by the canons of the classical drama. Assuming that a drama should be ' a just and lively image of human nature, representing...subject, for the delight and instruction of mankind,' it is shown that this end can only be attained in a drama founded on such a compromise ; that the ancient... | |
 | Wallace Harvey-Jellie - 1906 - 186 pàgines
...Dryden a justement défini le but légitime du théâtre en déclarant qu'une pièce devrait être « 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 » (1).... | |
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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. 
