 | John Dryden - 1717 - 464 pages
...favourably as flxturch, Appian, and Dim Caff^s would give me leave: The like 1 have obierv'd in Clttpatrtt. That which is wanting to work up the Pity to a greater heighth, was not afforded rne by the Story: For the Crimes of Love which they both committed, were... | |
 | John Bell - English drama - 1776 - 382 pages
...altogether wicked, becaufe ke could not then be pitied : V have therefore fleered the middle courfe ; and have drawn the character of Antony as favourably as Plutarch, Appian and Dion Caflius would give me leave : The like I have obferved in Cleopatra.. That which is wanting to work... | |
 | John Bell - English drama - 1780 - 382 pages
...altogether wicked, becaufe he could not then be pitied : I have therefore fleered the middlecourfe, and have drawn the character of Antony as favourably as Plutarch, Appian, and Dion Caffius, would give me leave. The like I have obfcrved in Cleopatra. That which is wanting to work... | |
 | John Bell - English drama - 1776 - 422 pages
...altogether wicked, becaufe h$ could not then be pitied : I have therefore fteered the middle courfe ; and have drawn the character of Antony as favourably as Plutarch, Appian and Dion Caffius would ;;ive me leave : The like I have ebferved In Cleopatra. That which is wanting to work... | |
 | John Dryden, Edmond Malone - English prose literature - 1800 - 562 pages
...concluded, that the hero of the poem ought not to be a character of perfect virtue, for then he could not without injustice be made unhappy ; nor yet altogether...the like I have observed in Cleopatra. That which is waning to work up the pity to a greater height, was not afforded me by the story ; for the crimes of... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808 - 426 pages
...without injustice, be made unhappy ; nor yet alto? ether wicked, because he could not then be pitied, have therefore steered the middle course ; and have...which is wanting to work up the pity to a greater heighth, was not afforded me by the story ; for the crimes of love, which they both committed, were... | |
 | John Dryden - English literature - 1808 - 436 pages
...without injustice, be made unhappy ; nor yet alto? ether wicked, because he could not then be pitied, have therefore steered the middle course ; and have...which is wanting to work up the pity to a greater heighth, was not afforded me by the story ; tor the crimes of love, which they both committed, were... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1816 - 852 pages
...your returning fpilt, Work out and expiate our former guilt. Drydent • ii. To WORK up. To raife.— That which is wanting to work up the pity to a greater height, was not afforded me by the . ftory. Druden. — This lake refemb!es a fea, when worked up by ftorms. Addifon. — The fun, that... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1821 - 430 pages
...concluded, that the hero of the poem ought not to be a character of perfect virtue, for then he could not, without injustice, be made unhappy ; nor yet altogether...which is wanting to work up the pity to a greater heighth, was not afforded me by the story ; for the crimes of love, which they both committed, were... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1907 - 644 pages
...That the Heroe of the Poem, ought not to be a character of perfect Virtue, for, then, he could not, without injustice, be made unhappy ; nor yet altogether...because he could not then be pitied : I have therefore steer'd the middle course ; and have drawn the character of Anthony as favourably as Plutarch, Appian,... | |
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All reasonable men have long since concluded, that the hero of the poem ought not to be a character of perfect virtue, for then he could not, without injustice, be made unhappy ; nor yet altogether wicked, because he could not then be pitied. 
