 | John Dryden, Edmond Malone - 1800 - 580 pages
...proper to them ; and from both these, if they are judiciously performed, the delight of poetry results. An Opera is a poetical tale or fiction, represented by vocal and instrumental and Pope, in one of his letters to Mr. Cromwell, has adopted it. It is however certainly not only no... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808 - 460 pages
...proper to them ; and from both these, if they are judiciously performed, the delight of poetry results. An opera is a poetical tale, or fiction, represented...music, adorned with scenes, machines, and dancing. The supposed persons of this musical drama are generally supernatural, as gods, and goddesses, and... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808 - 462 pages
...proper to them ; and from both these, if they are judiciously performed, the delight of poetry results. An opera is a poetical tale, or fiction, represented...music, adorned with scenes, machines, and dancing. The supposed persons of this musical drama are generally supernatural, as gods, and goddesses, and... | |
 | Allatson Burgh - 1814 - 524 pages
...are admirable, and in many respects still applicable to similar exhibitions. " An opera," says he, " is a poetical tale or fiction, " represented by vocal...music, " adorned with scenes, machines, and dancing. The " supposed persons of this musical drama are gene« *' rally supernatural, as gods and goddesses,... | |
 | London ball-room - 1825 - 170 pages
...incorporated with the opera in this country till long afterwards, yet Dryden had defined an opera to be " a fiction, represented by vocal and instrumental music, adorned with scenes, machines, and dances ;"" and of this department of our drama the earliest and greatest ornament was Grimaldi Nicolini,... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 824 pages
...opera, from the Lat. opera. A species of dramatic representation, defined in the extract from Dryden. An opera is a poetical tale or fiction, represented by vocal and instrumental musick, adorned with scenes, machines, and dancing. Dryden. You will hear what plays were acted that... | |
 | William Pinnock - 1830 - 520 pages
...had no rhythm,f because we have no proof that they marked the different length of their notes. 18. It is highly probable, that they introduced occasionally...to any motion whatever. This word is distinct from RHYME, which signifies an harmonical succession of sounds ; the agreeing of the sounds of words with... | |
 | George Hogarth - 1838 - 494 pages
...performance which, in many respects, are of permanent and universal application. "An opera," he says, "is a poetical tale or fiction, represented by vocal...music, adorned with scenes, machines, and dancing. The supposed persons of this musical drama are generally supernatural, as gods and goddesses, and heroes,... | |
 | William Bolles - 1846 - 700 pages
...Openness, 6'pn-nes, n. plainness, clearness, freedom from obscurity or ambiguity. Opera, op-fir &, n. a poetical tale or fiction, represented by vocal and...music, adorned with scenes, machines, and dancing. Operate, op-fir-A't. vi. to act, to have agency, to produce effects ; to perform some surgical operation.... | |
 | James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - 1852 - 814 pages
...may clearly understand each other's views, you give me your definition of an opera. D. Readily^. ' An opera is a poetical tale or fiction, represented by vocal and instrumental music. The supposed persons of this musical drama are generally supernatural, as gods, goddesses, and heroes.... | |
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An opera is a poetical tale, or fiction, represented by vocal and instrumental music, adorned with scenes, machines, and dancing. The supposed persons of this musical drama are generally supernatural... 
