But the ridiculous must no longer come forward as the pure creation of his own fancy, but must be verisimilar, that is, seem to be real. ❋ August Wilhelm Schlegel (1806)
First comes the long, learned or at least verisimilar discourse on the virtue of one item versus another, followed by effusive congratulations on the discernment and taste evident in the customer's choice. ❋ Francis X. Rocca (2010)
Occasionally he draws attention to the formal properties underlying those verisimilar effects—and those sections are by far my favorite parts of his book. ❋ Unknown (2010)
There might be some handful of radical formalists who argue that fiction contains no verisimilar power, and a few radical realists who claim that fiction is not artifice, but does anyone take such critics and views seriously? ❋ Unknown (2010)
And mostly he proceeds to write about the verisimilar power of fiction, which he ranks of supreme importance. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Modern writers of fiction seem to be more attracted to realistic biblical characters, involved in verisimilar situations. ❋ Unknown (2009)
In science fiction there can be no inexplicable marvels, no transcendence, no devils or demons -- and the patterns of occurrence must be verisimilar. ❋ Hal Duncan (2005)
It's virtually impossible for me not to characterize what I do in realist terms, because what I am doing in describing the whole topology of historical evidences is nothing other than developing a more verisimilar account. ❋ Unknown (2005)
The more a play is verisimilar, the more it runs the risk of showing the audience a mere picture of their daily lives. ❋ Bevington, David (2002)
The youthful Jesus is portrayed working as an apprentice to his father the carpenter (plenty of verisimilar technical information on wood and tools), reading the scrolls of Ezekiel and Isaiah, which he will later freely quote, and experiencing for the first time on record a serious childhood illness (some of its effects seem to linger on in the later career). ❋ Kermode, Frank (1997)
Are these dramas of his not verisimilar only, but true; nay, truer than reality itself, since the essence of unmixed reality is bodied forth in them under more expressive symbols? ❋ Various (N/A)
Only Shakspeare was endowed with that healthy equilibrium of nature whose point of rest was midway between the imagination and the understanding, -- that perfectly unruffled brain which reflected all objects with almost inhuman impartiality, -- that outlook whose range was ecliptical, dominating all zones of human thought and action, -- that power of verisimilar conception which could take away _Richard III_ from ❋ Various (N/A)
But his power as a sociologist is no less real that it is unconscious, indeed infinitely more real and human and verisimilar that it is not polemical. ❋ Archibald Henderson (1920)
We find the Cardinal Sforza-Pallavicino (1644) blaming those who look for truth or falsehood, for the verisimilar or for historical truth, in poetry. ❋ Benedetto Croce (1909)
Thus the fancy takes the place of the verisimilar of certain students of ❋ Benedetto Croce (1909)
Aesthetic truths for Baumgarten were those which did not seem altogether false or altogether true: in fact, the verisimilar. ❋ Benedetto Croce (1909)
Who does not recall the great part played in literary history by the criticism of the verisimilar? ❋ Benedetto Croce (1909)
