# Miscellaneous Pieces, in Prose

Author: Aikin, John, 1747-1822; Barbauld, Mrs. (Anna Letitia), 1743-1825

Genre: Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/48056

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## Summary

Various are the methods which art and ingenuity have invented to exhibit a picture of human life and manners. These have differed from each other, both in the mode of representation, and in the particular view of the subject which has been taken. With respect to the first, it is universally allowed that the dramatic form is by far the most perfect. The circumstance of leaving every character to display itself in its own proper language, with all the variations of tone and gesture which distinguish it from others, and which mark every emotion of the mind; and the scenic delusions of dress, painting, and machinery, contribute to stamp such an appearance of reality upon dramatic representati...

## Chapters

- [Part 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/miscellaneous-pieces-in-prose-48056/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Part 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/miscellaneous-pieces-in-prose-48056/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Part 8](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/miscellaneous-pieces-in-prose-48056/chapters/8/index.md)
- [Part 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/miscellaneous-pieces-in-prose-48056/chapters/5/index.md)
- [Part 7](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/miscellaneous-pieces-in-prose-48056/chapters/7/index.md)
- [Part 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/miscellaneous-pieces-in-prose-48056/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Part 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/miscellaneous-pieces-in-prose-48056/chapters/6/index.md)
- [Part 9](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/miscellaneous-pieces-in-prose-48056/chapters/9/index.md)
- [Part 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/miscellaneous-pieces-in-prose-48056/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Part 10](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/miscellaneous-pieces-in-prose-48056/chapters/10/index.md)