 But as the best medicines may lose their virtue by being ill applied, so is it with verse, if a fit subject be not chosen for it. Neither must the argument alone, but the characters and persons, be great and noble; otherwise (as Scaliger says of Claudian)...  Pamphlets in Philology and the Humanities - עמוד 601892תצוגה מלאה - מידע על ספר זה
 | John Dryden, Edmond Malone - 1800 - 634 דפים
...account of every little particle as it passes through. But as the best medicines may lose their virtue by being / ill applied, so is it with verse, if a...alone, but the characters and persons, be great and noble; otherwise (as Scaligcr says of Claudian) the poet will be ignobiJiore ruateria depressus. The... | |
 | John Dryden - 1800 - 624 דפים
...account of every little particle as it passes through. But as the best medicines may lose their virtue by being ill applied, so is it with verse, if a fit...alone, but the characters and persons, be great and noble; otherwise (as Scaliger says of Claudian) the poet will be ignobiliore mdteria depressus. The... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808 - 486 דפים
...account of every little particle as it passes through. But, as the best medicines may lose their virtue, by being ill applied, so is it with verse, if a. fit...alone, but the characters and persons, be great and noble; otherwise, (as Scaliger says of Claudian) the poet will be ignobiliore materid deprcssus. The... | |
 | 1845 - 816 דפים
...winds up skilfully by applying all he has said to " a fit subject" — that is, an Heroic Play. For neither must the argument alone, but the characters and persons, be great and noble, otherwise rhymed verse would be out of place, which, for the reasons assigned, is manifestly... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1821 - 488 דפים
...account of every little particle as it passes through. But, as the best medicines may lose their virtue, by being ill applied, so is it with verse, if a fit...alone, but the characters and persons, be great and noble ; otherwise, (as Scaliger says of Claudian) the poet will be ignobiliore materid depressus. The... | |
 | George Walker - 1825 - 668 דפים
...But as the best medicines may lose their virtue by being ill applied, so is it with verse, if a ht subject be not chosen for it. Neither must the argument...alone, but the characters and persons, be great and noble ; otherwise, as Scaliger says of Claudian, the poet will be ignobitiore materid depressus. The... | |
 | 1845 - 842 דפים
...winds up skilfully by applying all he has said to " a fit subject " — that is, an Heroic Play. For neither must the argument alone, but the characters and persons, be great and noble, otherwise rhymed verse would be out of place, which, for the reasons assigned, is manifestly... | |
 | 1845 - 816 דפים
...winds up skilfully by applying all he has said to " a fit subject " — that is, an Heroic Play. For neither must the argument alone, but the characters and persons, be great and noble, otherwise rhymed verse would be out of place, which, for the reasons assigned, is manifestly... | |
 | John Wilson - 1846 - 360 דפים
...winds up skilfully by applying all he has said to " a fit subject"— that is, an Heroic Play. For neither must the argument alone, but the characters and persons, be great and noble, otherwise rhymed verse would be out of place, which, for the reasons assigned, is manifestly... | |
 | English authors - 1876 - 484 דפים
...account of every little particle as it passes through. But, as the best medicines may lose their virtue, by being ill applied, so is it with verse, if a fit subject be not chosen for it.—Dedication to the Rival Ladies. XX, JOHN LOCKE. 1632—1704. JOHN LOCKE was born at Wrington... | |
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