 | John Dryden - 1800 - 662 pages
...colloquial ; as appears evidently from this fact, that our common conversation frequently falls into tamlnck verse, seldom into hexameter, and only when we depart from the usual melody of speech." — •" Satyrick, Mr. Twining adds, (commenting on this passage) from the share which those fantastick... | |
 | John Dryden - 1800 - 674 pages
...nature itself pointed out the proper metre. For the iambick is of all metres the most colloquial ; as appears evidently from this fact, that our common conversation frequently falls into iambick verse, seldom into hexameter, and only when we depart from the usual melody of speech."—... | |
 | John Dryden - 1800 - 674 pages
...formed, nature itsdf pointed out the proper metre. For the iambick is of all metres the most Colloquial ; as appears evidently from this fact, that our common conversation frequently falls into iambick verse, seldom into hexameter, and only when we depart from the usual melody of speech." —... | |
 | Aristotle, Thomas Twining - Aesthetics - 1812 - 380 pages
...nature itself pointed out the proper metre. For the iambic is, of all metres, the most colloquial ; as appears evidently from this fact, that our common...minute detail would, perhaps, be a task of some length. VIII. COMEDY, as was said before, is an imitation OBJECT of bad characters ; bad, not with respect... | |
 | Aristotle, Thomas Twining - Aesthetics - 1812 - 386 pages
...nature itself pointed out the proper metre. For the iambic is, of all metres, the most colloquial; as appears evidently from this fact, that our common...minute detail would, perhaps, be a task of some length. vii r. COMEDY, as was said before, is an imitation OBJECT of bad characters; bad, not with respect... | |
 | Aristotle, Thomas Twining - Aesthetics - 1812 - 388 pages
...nature itself pointed out the proper metre. For the iambic is, of all metres, the most colloquial ; as appears evidently from this fact, that our common...polished. But of this enough : to enter into a minute "- i detail would, perhaps, be a task of some length. • VIII. COMEDY, as was said before, is an imitation... | |
 | Aristotle - Aesthetics - 1815 - 492 pages
...nature itself pointed out the proper metre. For the iambic is, of all metres, the most colloquial*4, as appears evidently from this fact, that our common...hexameter, and only when we depart from the usual melody of speech36. Episodes were also multiplied37, and every other part of the drama successively improved... | |
 | Philip Wentworth Buckham - Greek drama - 1830 - 628 pages
...metre. For the iambic is, of all metres, the most colloquial (μαλίστα 'yap \SKTIKOV ίστι) ; as appears evidently from this fact, that our common...part of the drama successively improved and polished. VIII, (Object and Progress of Comedy.) Comedy, as was said before, is an imitation of bad characters... | |
 | Thomas Swinburne Carr - Greece - 1838 - 520 pages
...metre," observes Aristotle, was formed for the dialogue ; for, of all metres, it is the most colloquial, as appears evidently from this fact, that our common conversation frequently falls into Iambic verse."i whose numerous improvements have entitled him to the appellation of the Father of Tragedy,... | |
 | John Richard Darley (Bp. of Kilmore, Elphin and Ardagh) - Greek drama - 1840 - 580 pages
...proper metre. For the iambic is, of all metres, the most colloquial (juaX«mi yap \fKTIKOV tffri) ; as appears evidently from this fact, that our common conversation frequently falls into iambic verso ; seldom into hexameter, and only when we depart from tho usual melody of speech. Episodes were... | |
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... and saltatorial genius of the poem at that time ; but when the dialogue was formed, nature itself pointed out the proper metre. For the iambic is, of all metres, the most colloquial ; as appears evidently from this fact, that our common conversation... 
