 | John Dryden - Drama - 1889 - 176 pages
...judgment of what others writ : that he conceived a play ought to be, A just and lively image of 20 human nature, representing its passions and humours,...subject, for the delight and instruction of mankind. This definition, though Crites raised a logical objection against it — that it was only a genere... | |
 | Arthur Octavius Prickard - Aesthetics - 1891 - 196 pages
...particular purpose : — It is also interesting to compare Dryden's definition of a play, which ought to be — "A just and lively image of human nature,...subject, for the delight and instruction of mankind." — Essay of Dramatic Poesy. (This definition is put into the mouth of Lisideius (Sir Charles Sedley),... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - English literature - 1892 - 428 pages
...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,...subject, for the delight and instruction of mankind." * [No "that" in first edition.— t [No "had " in first edition. .—ED.] This definition (though Crites... | |
 | John Dryden - 1892 - 428 pages
...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,...subject, for the delight and instruction of mankind." * [No "that" in first edition.— ED.] A~' "" A t [No "had " in first edition.— ED.] This definition... | |
 | George Stuart Collins - 1892 - 164 pages
...of a play which had been settled upon by the four disputants in the Essay; namely, that a play ought to be: "A just and lively image of human nature, representing...subject, for the delight and instruction of mankind." The means to be used in attaining this end are such as were employed by the dramatists of both ancient... | |
 | Jeremiah Wesley Bray - Criticism - 1898 - 364 pages
...levity and inconstancy of men's judgments. (Pub.) 1641. B. JONSON, Timber, p. 72. A play ... is ... a just and lively image of human nature, representing...subject, for the delight and instruction of mankind. 1668. DRYDEN, XV., p. 292. What force of wit and spirit in the style, what lively painting of humour,... | |
 | 1898 - 440 pages
...description than a definition : " A just and The dramatic lively image of human nature, representing paw*- its passions and humours, and the changes of fortune...subject, for the delight and instruction of mankind." Now this is neither definition nor description of a play. There is not a word in it which does not... | |
 | Margaret Pollock Sherwood - Drama - 1898 - 130 pages
...is an imitation of nature, and in his discussion of the ethical aim of tragedy. A play he defines as "a just and lively image of human nature, representing...passions and humours, and the changes of fortune to which i Dr. Royce : The Spirit of Modern Philosophy, pp. 28, 31. 15 it is subject, for the delight and instruction... | |
 | David Hannay - History - 1898 - 434 pages
...definition : " A just and The dramatic lively image of human nature, representing vaiity. itg passiOI1s and humours, and the changes of fortune to which it...subject, for the delight and instruction of mankind." Now this is neither definition nor description of a play. There is not a word in it which does not... | |
 | John Dryden - Drama - 1898 - 232 pages
...description than a definition; but which served to guide him in his private thoughts, when he was to 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 et... | |
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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. 
