 Xenophon affirms to have died in his bed of extreme old age. Nay more, when the event is past dispute, even then we are willing to be deceived, and the poet, if he contrives it with appearance of truth, has all the audience of his party ; at least during...  The Works of John Dryden: In Verse and Prose - Page 233by John Dryden - 1859Full view - About this book
 | John Dryden, Edmond Malone - English prose literature - 1800 - 591 pages
...willing to be deceived, and the poet, if he contrives it with appearance of truth, has all the audience of his party; at least during the time his play is...they are rather so many chronicles of kings, or the business many times of thirty or forty years, cramped into a repre-^ sentation of two hours and an... | |
 | John Dryden - 1800 - 624 pages
...willing to be deceived, and the poet, if he contrives it with appearance of truth, has all the audience of his party; at least during the time his play is...other side, if you consider the historical plays of Shakspcare, they are rather so many chronicles of kings, or the business many times of thirty or forty... | |
 | John Dryden, Edmond Malone - 1800 - 634 pages
...willing to be deceived, and the poet, if he contrives it with appearance of truth, has all the audience of his party; at least during the time his play is acting :_sp_jiaturally we arc kind to virtue, when our own interest is not in .tmcstign, that \ve take it... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - English literature - 1808 - 432 pages
...willing to be deceived, and the poet, if he contrives it with appearance of truth, has all the audience of his party ; at least during the time his play is...acting : so naturally we are kind to virtue, when our oAvn interest is not in question, that we take it up as the general concernment of mankind. On the... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1821 - 432 pages
...willing to be deceived, and the poet, if he contrives it with appearance of truth, has all the audience of his party ; at least during the time his play is...other side, if you consider the historical plays of Shakespeare, they are rather so many chronicles of kings, or the-business many times of thirty or forty... | |
 | John Dryden, John Mitford - English literature - 1836 - 488 pages
...ling to be deceived, and the poet, if he contrives ^ it with appearance of truth, has all the audience of his party ; at least during the time his play -...>' is acting : so naturally we are kind to virtue, r when our own interest is not in question, that we take it up as the general concernment of mankind.... | |
 | John Dryden, John Mitford - 1844 - 536 pages
...with appearance of truth, has all the audience of his party ; at least during the time his play in acting : so naturally we are kind to virtue, when...the husiness many times of thirty or forty years, cramped tnto a representation of two hours and a half: which is not to imitate or paint nature, hut... | |
 | Karl Elze - Dramatists, English - 1888 - 606 pages
...to Bartholomew Fair ( 7'wo hours and a half, and somewhat more) ; andDryden, Essay on Dramatic Poesy (If you consider the Historical Plays of Shakspeare, they are rather so many Chronicles of King?, or the business many times of thirty or forty years crampt into a representation of two hours... | |
 | John Dryden - Drama - 1889 - 176 pages
...willing to be de5 ceived, and the poet, if he contrives it with appearance of truth, has all the audience of his party ; at least during the time his play is...question, that we take it up as the general concernment 10 of mankind. On the other side, if you consider the historical plays of Shakspeare, they are 'rather... | |
 | John Dryden - 1892 - 428 pages
...willing to be deceived, and the poet, if he contrives it with appearance of truth, has all the audience of his party ; at least during the time his play is...other side, if you consider the historical plays of Shakespeare, they are rather so many chronicles of kings, or the business many times of thirty or forty... | |
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