 | Charles-Alphonse Dufresnoy - Art - 1783 - 248 pages
...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 - Art - 1798 - 394 pages
...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, Edmond Malone - English prose literature - 1800 - 670 pages
...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...constantly to be chosen ; I mean in tragedy, which represents the figures of the highest form amongst mankind. Thus in portraits, the painter will not... | |
 | John Dryden - 1800 - 674 pages
...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...constantly to be chosen ; I mean in tragedy, which represents the figures of the highest form amongst mankind. Thus in portraits, the painter will not... | |
 | John Dryden - 1800 - 662 pages
...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...worse, and the better is constantly to be chosen ; I hlean in tragedy, which represents the figures of the highest form amongst mankind. Thus in portraits,... | |
 | John Dryden - 1800 - 674 pages
...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...constantly to be chosen ; I mean in tragedy, which represents the figures of the highest form amongst mankind. Thus in portraits, the painter will not... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds, Edmond Malone - Art - 1801 - 388 pages
...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 pages
...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 - English literature - 1808 - 518 pages
...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, was wrecked...constantly to be chosen; I mean in tragedy, which represents the figures of the highest form amongst mankind. Thus in portraits, the painter will not... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808 - 516 pages
...protecting the trade. Perhaps Dryden alluded to the misfortune of Sir Francis Wheeler, in 1693, who, being 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 represents the figures of the highest form amongst... | |
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... are never to be made perfect, but always to be drawn with some specks of frailty and deficience ; such as they have been described to us in history, if they were real characters, or such as the poet began to shew them at their first appearance, if... 
