 | Sir Joshua Reynolds, Edmond Malone - 1798 - 394 sider
...play, but must be of use to carry on the main design. All thingselse are like six fingers to the hand, when nature, which is superfluous in nothing, can...tedious and unnecessary descriptions. A robe which is tog heavy, is less an ornament than a burden. In Poetry, Horace calls these things, . . • • ^'... | |
 | John Dryden - 1800 - 674 sider
...play, but must be of use to carry on the main design. All things else are like six fingers to the hand, when nature, which is superfluous in nothing, can...robe which is too heavy is less an ornament than a burthen. In poetry Horace calls these things — versus thopes rerum, nug<equ<e camor<e ; these are... | |
 | John Dryden, Edmond Malone - 1800 - 670 sider
...play, but must be of use to carry on the main design. All things else are like six fingers to the hand, when nature, which is superfluous in nothing, can...robe which is too heavy is less an ornament than a burthen. In poetry Horace calls these things — ,versus mopes rerum, nugtequa camor<e ; these are... | |
 | sir Joshua Reynolds - 1801 - 392 sider
...play, but must be of use to carry on the main design. All things else are like six fingers to the hand, when nature, which is superfluous in nothing, can...burden. In Poetry, Horace calls these things, Versus inopes rerum, nugaeque canorae. These are also the lucus & ara Dianae, which he mentions in the same... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds, Edmond Malone - 1801 - 388 sider
...play, but must be of use to carry on the main design. All things else are like six fingers to the hand, when nature, which is superfluous in nothing, can...burden. In Poetry, Horace calls these things, . Versus inopes rerum, nugaequc canoras. These are also the lucus & ara Dianae, which he mentions in the same... | |
 | John Dryden - 1808 - 518 sider
...play, but must be of use to carry on the main design. All things else are like six fingers to the hand, when nature, which is superfluous in nothing, can...robe which is too heavy is less an ornament than a burthen. In poetry Horace calls these things — versus mopes rerttin, nugaque ccmora ; there are also... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808 - 518 sider
...play, but must be of use to carry on the main design. All things else are like six fingers to the hand, when nature, which is superfluous in nothing, can...robe which is too heavy is less an ornament than a burthen. In poetry Horace calls these things — versus 'mopes renttn, nugaxjue canora ; there are... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808 - 516 sider
...play, but must be of use to carry on the main design. All things else are like six fingers to the hand, when nature, •which is superfluous in nothing, can...robe which is too heavy is less an ornament than a burthen. In poetry Horace calls these things — versus inopes rerum, nugaque canora ; there are also... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808 - 520 sider
...play, but must be of use to carry on the main design. All things else are like six fingers to the hand, when nature, which is superfluous in nothing, can...robe which is too heavy is less an ornament than a burthen. In poetry Horace calls these things — versus inopes rentm, migceyue canorce ; there are... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds, Edmond Malone - 1809 - 438 sider
...must be of use to carry on the main design. All things else are like six fingers to the hand, whe^ nature, which is superfluous in 'nothing, can do her work with five. «' A Paintcr must reject all trifling ornaments;"— so must a poet refuse all tedious and unnecessary descriptions.... | |
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... which are foreign to his Poem, and are naturally no parts of it : they are wens, and other excrescences,' which belong not to the body, but deform it. No person, no incident in the piece or in the play, but must be of use to carry on the main design.... 
