| Ephraim Hunt - 1872 - 658 páginas
...serious and ludicrous characters, and, in the successive evolutions of the design, sometimes produce seriousness and sorrow, and sometimes levity and laughter....to instruct ; the end of poetry is to instruct by pleasing.1) That the mingled drama may convey all the instruction of tragedy or comedy can not be denied,... | |
| Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - 1873 - 614 páginas
...serious and ludicrous characters, and, in the successive evolutions of the design, sometimes produce seriousness and sorrow, and sometimes levity and laughter....of criticism will be readily allowed ; but there is alway an appeal open from criticism to nature. The end of writing is to instruct ; the end of poetry... | |
| John Bascom - 1893 - 458 páginas
...this artistic age were men of talent rather than of genius. " The end of writing," says Johnson, " is to instruct ; the end of poetry is to instruct by pleasing." Exactly, Pope would have said ; hardly, Shakespeare would have replied. Under this definition he proceeds... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1878 - 750 páginas
...serious and ludicrous characters, and, in the successive evolutions of the design, sometimes produce seriousness and sorrow, and sometimes levity and laughter. That this is a practice contrary to the rules of criiicism will be readily allowed; but there is always an appeal open from criticism to nature.; The... | |
| Alfred Hix Welsh - 1880 - 182 páginas
...knowledge of the heart in a page of Kichardson than in all Fielding. 'The end of writing,' he says, 'is to instruct ;' the end of poetry is to instruct by pleasing. Hence, his criticism of Shakespeare : ' He sacrifices virtue to convenience, and is so much more careful... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1882 - 996 páginas
...••.;-,.•-'- and sorrow, and sometimes levity «n J 'auglner. hat this is a practice contiary appea' open from criticism to nature. The end of writing is to instruct ; the end of poetry to instruct... | |
| Alfred Hix Welsh - 1882 - 1108 páginas
...knowledge of the heart in a, page of Richardson than in all Fielding. 'The end of writing,' lie says, 'is to instruct.' The end of poetry is to instruct by pleasing ; hence his criticism of Shakespeare: 1 He sacrifices virtue to convenience, and is so much more careful... | |
| James Baldwin - 1897 - 254 páginas
...serious and ludicrous characters, and, in the successive evolutions of the design, sometimes produce seriousness and sorrow, and sometimes levity and laughter....to the rules of criticism will be readily allowed; 20 but there is always an appeal open from criticism to nature. The end of writing is to instruct;... | |
| James Baldwin - 1897 - 254 páginas
...serious and ludicrous characters, and, in the successive evolutions of the design, sometimes produce seriousness and sorrow, and sometimes levity and laughter....to the rules of criticism will be readily allowed; 20 but there is always an appeal open from criticism to nature. The end of writing is to instruct;... | |
| Charles Frederick Johnson - 1909 - 418 páginas
...powers of exciting laughter and sorrow not only in one mind but in one composition.' He admits : — That . . . this is a practice contrary to the rules...be readily allowed ; but there is always an appeal from criticism to nature. The end of writing is to instruct,1 the j end of poetry is to instruct by... | |
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