 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 468 pages
...ever blessed memory, &c. London: printed for Charles Brome, IG-'o^to. " I will not defend everything in his ' Venice Preserved,' but I must bear this testimony...but nature is there, which is the greatest beauty. — DFIVDI;N: Pref. to Fresnotfs Art of Paintiiuj, 1695. The talents of Otway, in his scenes of passionate... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 472 pages
...blessed memory, ic. London: printed for Charles Brorne, 16*5,' 4to. 19 I will not defend everything in his ' Venice Preserved,' but I must bear this testimony...elegance of expression; but nature is there, which in the greatest beauty.— DRYDEN: Pref. to Fresnoy's Art of Painting, 1695. The talents of Otway,... | |
 | John Dryden - 1859 - 482 pages
...— that the past ions are truly touched in it,* though perhaps there if somewhat to he desired, hoth in the grounds of them, and in the height and elegance of expression ; hut nature is there, which is the greatest heauty. " In i In: passions," says our author, " we must... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1864 - 460 pages
...touched in it, though perhaps there is somewhat to be desired, both in the grounds of them and in thy height and elegance of expression; but nature is there, which is the greatest beauty." WALLER. EDMUND WALLER was born on the third of •" March, 1605, at Colshill in Hertfordshire. His... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1879 - 510 pages
...acted, and it is of this play that Dryden speaks in the words quoted. ' I will not defend everything in his " Venice Preserved," but I must bear this testimony...but Nature is there, which is the greatest beauty.' Parallel of Poetry and Painting, 1695. There is no authority that Dryden thought with contempt of Otway.... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1881 - 572 pages
...Poetique, Chant i., beginning, " Villon sut le premier." 3 I will not defend everything in his [Otway's] Venice Preserved, but I must bear this testimony to...but nature is there, which is the greatest beauty. — DRYDEN, Preface to Fresnoy's Art of Painting. 4 Alluding to the well-known saying of Ben Jonson... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1881 - 570 pages
...it, though perhaps there is somewhat to be desired, both in the grounds of them, and in the h-ight and elegance of expression ; but nature is there, which is the greatest beauty.— DRYDEN, Preface to Fresnoy's Art of Painting. 4 Alluding to the well-known saying of Ben Jonson : "... | |
 | John Dryden - 1882 - 320 pages
...Otway possessed this part as thoroughly as any of the ancients or moderns. I will not defend everything in his Venice Preserved ; but I must bear this testimony...which is the greatest beauty. " In the passions," says tour author, " we must have a very great regard to the quality of the persons who are actually possessed... | |
 | John Dryden - 1895 - 266 pages
...truly touched in it, though, perhaps, there is somewhat to be desired both in the grounds of thom, and in the height and elegance of expression : but...we must, have a very great regard to the quality of thepersons who are actually possessed with them." The joy of a monarch for the news of a victory must... | |
 | Leslie Stephen - 1895 - 488 pages
...Painting,' 1695, ' but I must bear this testimony to his memory, that the passions are truly tricked in it, though perhaps there is somewhat to be desired,...but nature is there, which is the greatest beauty.' Pope's verdict on Otway, that he ' failei to polish or refine,' is deprived of its sting by the fact... | |
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Preserved; but I must bear this testimony to his memory, that the passions are truly touched in it, though, perhaps there is somewhat to be desired both in the grounds of them, and in the height and elegance of expression ; but nature is there, which... 
