verisimility

A fashion has prevailed for some years (introduced by the doctors of the perspective and statuary school of action) which sometimes increases the difficulty of giving verisimility to the scene, or rather destroys it altogether.

The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Volume I, Number 3

Dryden has himself assigned the following reasons: ” “The plot, the characters, the wit, the passions, the descriptions, are all exalted above the level of common converse, as high as the imagination of the poet can carry them, with proportion to verisimility.

The Dramatic Works of John Dryden Scott, Walter, Sir 1882

Dryden has himself assigned the following reasons: -- "The plot, the characters, the wit, the passions, the descriptions, are all exalted above the level of common converse, as high as the imagination of the poet can carry them, with proportion to verisimility.

The Dramatic Works of John Dryden, Volume 1 With a Life of the Author Walter Scott 1801