 | John Dryden - 1800 - 596 pages
...prescribes to the writer of an heroick poem, and which holds too by the same reason in all dramatick poetry, is, to make the moral of the work ; that is,...to yourself what that precept of morality shall be \vhich you would insinuate into the people ; as namely, Homer's (which I have copied in my CONQUEST... | |
 | John Dryden - 1800
...prescribes to the writer of an hcroick poem, and which holds too by the same reason in all dramatick poetry, is, to make the moral of the work ; that is,...lay down to yourself what that precept of morality ihalLbe which you would insinuate into the people; as namely, Homer's (which I have copied in my CONQUKST... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1821
...prescribes to the writer of an heroic poem, and which holds too by the same reason in all dramatic poetry, is to make the Moral of the work ; that is,...commonwealth, and discord destroys it. Sophocles, in his (Edijms, that no man is to be accounted happy before his death. It is the moral that directs the whole... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1883
...prescribes to the writer of an heroic poem, and which holds too by the same reason in all dramatic poetry, is to make the moral of the work ; that is,...commonwealth, and discord destroys it ; Sophocles, in his " (Edipus," that no man is to be accounted happy before his death. It is the moral that directs the... | |
 | Margaret Pollock Sherwood - 1898 - 110 pages
...statements we find him approving Bossu in saying that to make a moral of your work you must lay down for yourself what that precept of morality shall be which you would insinuate into the people, and 'frame- your work accordingly. It is the moral' which directs the whole action of the play to one... | |
 | John Dryden - 1900
...friend Mr. Rymer.' Among the changes of view is the greater tolerance shown to the moral formula : ' to lay down to yourself what that precept of morality...shall be which you would insinuate into the people ' is the first rule of the heroic and not less of the dramatic poet : in his earlier essays Dryden... | |
 | John Dryden - 1900
...friend Mr. Rymer.' Among the changes of view is the greater tolerance shown to the moral formula : ' to lay down to yourself what that precept of morality...shall be which you would insinuate into the people ' is the first rule of the heroic and not less of the dramatic poet : in his earlier essays Dryden... | |
 | Barrett Harper Clark - 1918 - 501 pages
...prescribes to the writer of an Heroic Poem, and which holds too by the same reason in all Dramatic Poetry, is to make the moral of the work; that is,...commonwealth and discord destroys it; Sophocles, in his (Edipue, that no man is to be accounted happy before his death. 'Tis the moral that directs the whole... | |
 | Barrett Harper Clark - 1918 - 501 pages
...prescribes to the writer of an Heroic Poem, and which holds too by the same reason in all Dramatic Poetry, is to make the moral of the work; that is,...people; as, namely, Homer's (which I have copied in my Conqueet of Granada) was, that union preserves a commonwealth and discord destroys it; Sophocles, in... | |
 | John Dryden - 1921 - 299 pages
...prescribes to the writer of an Heroic Poem, and which holds too by the same reason in all Dramatic Poetry, is to make the moral of the work ; that is,...would insinuate into the people; as, namely, Homer's I have copied in my Conquest of Granada) was, that union preserves a commonwealth and discord destroys... | |
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The first rule which Bossu prescribes to the writer of an heroic poem, and which holds too by the same reason in all dramatic poetry, is to make the moral of the work, that is, to lay down to yourself what that precept of morality shall be, which you... 
