 | John Dryden, Edmond Malone - English prose literature - 1800 - 580 pages
...it occasioned, it involved the company (a$ Downes the prompter informs us) in a considerable debt. naturally from the subject, or which the poet adapts..." since I am upon this subject, that I should take ndtice of Mr. Dryden's definition of wit ; which, with all the deference that is due to the judgment... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - English literature - 1808 - 460 pages
...the rest, to this present entertainment of an opera. Propriety of thought is that fancy which arises naturally from the subject, or which the poet adapts...or fiction, represented by vocal and instrumental music, adorned with scenes, machines, and dancing. The supposed persons of this musical drama are generally... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808 - 462 pages
...the rest, to this present entertainment of an opera. Propriety of thought is that fancy which arises naturally from the subject, or which the poet adapts...or fiction, represented by vocal and instrumental music, adorned with scenes, machines, and dancing. The supposed persons of this musical drama are generally... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - Aeronautics - 1829 - 824 pages
...opera, from the Lat. opera. A species of dramatic representation, defined in the extract from Dryden. An opera is a poetical tale or fiction, represented by vocal and instrumental musick, adorned with scenes, machines, and dancing. Dryden. You will hear what plays were acted that... | |
 | William Pinnock - Emblems - 1830 - 576 pages
...probable, that they introduced occasionally the perfect chords of the third, fifth, and eighth,} * An OPERA is a poetical tale or fiction, represented by vocal and instrumental music, adorned with scenes, machines, and dancing. t Metre ; verse ; poetical numbers : also, proportion,... | |
 | William Pinnock - Emblems - 1830 - 520 pages
...probable, that they introduced occasionally the perfect chords of the third, fifth, and eighth,:}: * An OPERA is a poetical tale or fiction, represented by vocal and instrumental music, adorned with scenes, machines, and dancing. t Metre ; verse ; poetical numbers : also, proportion,... | |
 | James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - Authors - 1852 - 814 pages
...may clearly understand each other's views, you give me your definition of an opera. D. Readily^. ' An opera is a poetical tale or fiction, represented by vocal and instrumental music. The supposed persons of this musical drama are generally supernatural, as gods, goddesses, and... | |
 | John Dryden - 1882 - 492 pages
...the rest, to this present entertainment of an opera. Propriety of thought is that fancy which arises naturally from the subject, or which the poet adapts...or fiction, represented by vocal and instrumental music, adorned with scenes, machines, and dancing. The supposed persons of this musical drama are generally... | |
 | John Dryden - 1882 - 496 pages
...the clothing of those thoughts with such expressions as are naturally proper to them; and from botli these, if they are judiciously performed, the delight...or fiction, represented by vocal and instrumental music, adorned with scenes, machines, and dancing. The supposed persons of this musical drama are generally... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1883 - 488 pages
...the rest, to this present entertainment of an opera. Propriety of thought is that fancy which arises naturally from the subject, or which the poet adapts...or fiction, represented by vocal and instrumental music, adorned with scenes, machines, and dancing. The supposed persons of this musical drama are generally... | |
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An opera is a poetical tale, or fiction, represented by vocal and instrumental music, adorned with scenes, machines, and dancing. The supposed persons of this musical drama are generally supernatural, as gods, and goddesses, and heroes, which at least... 
