 Another thing in which the French differ from us and from the Spaniards is, that they do not embarrass or cumber themselves with too much plot ; they only represent so much of a story as will constitute one whole and great action sufficient for a play...  The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal - Page 1911902Full view - About this book
 | John Matthews Manly - 1926 - 928 pages
...Greek poets has expressed it. Another thing in which the French differ from us and from the Spaniards, d that one star, which to her Almost seems to minister...dreams of the morn, (Which like winged winds had borne But by pursuing closely one argument, which is not cloyed with many turns, the French have gained more... | |
 | John Dryden - 1926 - 414 pages
...poets has expressed it. ' Another thing in which the French differ from us ' and from the Spaniards, is, that they do not embarrass, or cumber themselves with too much "pI6TT~fEey only represent so much of a story as will constitute one whole and great action sufficient... | |
 | John Dryden - 1985 - 672 pages
...Spanish (as well as English) plots for their tendency to "multiply adventures; which, not being produc'd from one another, as effects from causes, but barely...actions in the Drama, and consequently make it many Playes." See Of Dramatick Poesie, in Works, XVII, 37. Although Dryden refers to Spanish plots as a... | |
 | Leonard Barkan - 1985 - 216 pages
...Spanish, John Dryden writes that the former "cumber themselves with too much plot," while the latter "only represent so much of a story as will constitute...actions in the drama, and consequently make it many plays."5 And Coleridge notes, as a general characteristic of Shakespearean drama, "Expectation in preference... | |
 | Michael J. Sidnell - 1991 - 332 pages
...renders it ridiculous. . . . 'Another thing in which the French differ from us and from the Spaniards, is, that they do not embarrass, or cumber themselves...in the drama, and consequently make it many plays. 0' A London theatre notorious for coarse presentations and disorder, 17 Horace, Epistles 2. 1. 185-86.... | |
 | John Dryden - 1956 - 682 pages
...Spanish (as well as English) plots for their tendency to "multiply adventures; which, not being produc'd from one another, as effects from causes, but barely...actions in the Drama, and consequently make it many Playes." See Of Dramatick Poesie, in Works, XVII, 37. Although Dryden refers to Spanish plots as a... | |
 | John Dryden - 2003 - 1024 pages
...Greek poets has expressed it. lAnother thing in which the French differ from us and from the Spaniards, is that they do not embarrass or cumber themselves...whole and great action sufficient for a play. We, who under1ake more, do but multiply adventures, which, not being produced from one another as effects from... | |
 | John Dryden - 312 pages
...which the French differ from us and from the Spaniards, is that they do not embarrass or cumber A 49 4 themselves with too much plot. They only represent...in the drama, and consequently make it many plays. "But by pursuing closely one argument which is not cloyed with many turns the French have gained more... | |
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