... of real Characters, Characters acknowledged to abound in common life ; but may be extended alfo to the exhibition of imaginary Beings. To create, is to be a Poet indeed; to draw down Beings from another fphere, and endue them with fuitable Paffions,... The Dramatick Works of Philip Massinger... - Página xxiiide Philip Massinger - 1779Visualização completa - Sobre este livro
| George Colman - 1761 - 40 páginas
...indeed ; to draw down Beings' from another Sphere, and endue them with fuitable Paffions^ Affections, Difpofitions, allotting them at the fame Time proper...Forms of Things unknown, and to give to airy Nothing a loca! Habitation and a N'fims, lurely requires a Genius for the Drama equal, if not fupcrior, to the... | |
| David Erskine Baker - 1764 - 390 páginas
...Powers of Imagination, the Forms afThings unknown, and to give to airy Nothing a local Habi-, tation and a Name, furely requires a Genius for the Drama...fuperior, to the Delineation of Perfonages in the ordinary Courfe of Nature. Shakefpeare in particular is universally acknowledged never to have foared fo far... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1774 - 374 páginas
...indeed ; to draw down Beings from another Sphere, and endue them with fuitable Paffions, Affections, Difpofitions, allotting them at the fame Time proper...Drama equal, if not fuperior, to the Delineation of J'erfonages, in the ordinary Courfe of Nature. Sbakefpeare, in particular, is univerfally acknowledged... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1774 - 374 páginas
...indeed ; to draw down Beings from another Sphere, and endue them with fuitable Paflions, Affections, Difpofitions, allotting them at the fame Time proper...Drama equal, if not fuperior, to the Delineation of Pcrfonages, in the ordinary Courfe of Nature. Sha.kefpeare, in particular, is univerfally acknowledged... | |
| 1774 - 372 páginas
...indeed ; to draw down Beings from another Sphere, and endue them with fuitable Paffions, Affections, Difpofitions, allotting them at the fame Time proper...and to give to airy Nothing a local Habitation and a Name, lurely requires a Genius for the Drama equal, if not fuperior, to the Delineation of Penonages... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1774 - 392 páginas
...indeed ; to draw down Beings from another Sphere, and endue them with fuitable Paffions, Affsdtions, Difpofitions, allotting them at the fame Time proper...by the Powers of Imagination, the Forms of Things tinknown, and to give to airy Nothing a local Habitation and a Name, furely requires a Genius for the... | |
| George Colman - 1787 - 338 páginas
...indeed; to draw down Beings from another fphere, and endue them with fuitable Paffions, Affections, Difpofitions, allotting them at the fame time proper...to the delineation of perfonages, in the ordinary courfe of Nature, Shakefpeare, in particular, is univerfally acknowledged never to have foared fo far... | |
| George Colman - 1787 - 362 páginas
...endue them with fuitable Paflions, Alfe¿tions, Dilpolitio¿s, allotting them at the fame • time time proper employment; “to body forth; by the Powers of¿ Imagination, the forms of things un. known, and to give to airy Nothing a local Habi. Cation and a¿ Named' furely requires a Genius... | |
| 1842 - 506 páginas
...unseen world. Eminent critics tell us, the highest exertion of the poetical faculty is, to " body forth the forms of things unknown," and to " give to airy nothing a local habitation and a name." By what unaccountable delusion this passage (which both the context and the expressions plainly... | |
| 1847 - 796 páginas
...of philosophy. To the imagination of the dramatic poet, it may, indeed, be permitted to body forth the forms of things unknown, and to give to airy nothing, a local habitation and a name. Mr. Landor, however, deals very freely with many things which are not unknown—save in some... | |
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