 | William Shakespeare - 1788 - 346 psl.
...elaborate curiosity, as the product of superM ij fluous fiuoiis and ostentatious art, by which is shewn, rather what is possible, than what is necessary. He...greatest graces of a play are to copy nature, and in. struft life. Perhaps, what I have here not dogmatically but deliberately written, may recall the... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1803 - 494 psl.
...rules, is to be contemplated as an elaborate curiosity, as the product of superfluous and ostentations art, by which is shown, rather what is possible, than...graces of a play are to copy nature, and instruct life. Perhaps, what I have here not dogmatically but deliberately written, may recall the principles of the... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1806 - 394 psl.
...contemplated as an elaborate curiosity, as the product of superfluous and ostentatious art, by which is shewn, rather what is possible, than what is necessary. He...graces of a play are to copy nature, and instruct life. Perhaps, what I have here not dogmatically but deliberately written, may recall the principles of the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 376 psl.
...contemplated as an elaborate curiosity, as the product of superfluous and ostentatious art, by which is shewn, rather what is possible, than what is necessary. He...graces of a play are to copy nature, and instruct life. Perhaps, what I have here not dogmatically, but deliberately written, may recall the principles of... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1809 - 488 psl.
...voce Metelli Serventur leges, malint a Cxsare tolli. Yet when I speak thus slightly of dramatic rules, I cannot but recollect how much wit and learning may...graces of a play are to copy nature, and instruct life. Perhaps, what I have here not dogmatically but deliberately written, may recal the principles of the... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1809 - 394 psl.
...easily received, but for better reasons than I have yet been able to find. The result of my-inquiries, in which it would be ludicrous to boast of impartiality,...graces of a play are to copy nature, and instruct life. Perhaps, what I have here not dogmatically but deliberately written, may recall the principles of the... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1809 - 390 psl.
...permiscuit imis " Longus summa dies, ut non, si voce Metelli "Serventur leges, malint a Casare tolli." He that, without diminution of any other excellence,...graces of a play are to copy nature, and instruct life. Yet when I speak thus slightly of dramatick rules, I cannot but recollect how much wit and learning... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1810 - 486 psl.
...cannot but recollect how much wit and learning may be produced against me ; before such authorities 1 am afraid to stand, not that I think the present question...graces of a play are to copy nature, and instruct life. Perhaps, what I have here not dogmatically but deliberately written, may recall the principles of the... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1810 - 444 psl.
...superfluous and ostentatious art, by which is shewn, rather what is possible, than what is necessary. like applause with the architect, who shall display...graces of a play are to copy nature and instruct life. Perhaps what I have here not dogmatically but deliberately written, may recal the principles of the... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1810 - 436 psl.
...superfluous and ostentatious art, by which is shewn, rather what is possible, than what is necessary. like applause with the architect, who shall display...graces of a play are to copy nature and instruct life. Perhaps what I have here not dogmatically but deliberately written, may recal the principles of the... | |
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He that, without diminution of any other excellence, shall preserve all the unities unbroken deserves the like applause with the architect who shall display all the orders of architecture in a citadel without any deduction from its strength; but the principal... 
