 But deeds and language such as men do use, And persons such as Comedy would choose, When she would show an image of the times. And sport with human follies, not with crimes; Except we make 'em such, by loving still Our popular errors, when we know they're...  Current Literature - Seite 1861903Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808 - 432 Seiten
...butlet heard To say, it thunders ; nor tempestuous drum Humbles, to telt you when the storm doth come 5 But deeds, and language, such as men do use. And persons, such as comedy would chuse ; When she would shew an image of the times, And sport with human follies, not with crimes ;... | |
 | 1808 - 546 Seiten
...presentation, and to win them by ridicule from buffoonery, bombast, and empty machinery, % V 1 en she wonld shew an image of the times ; And sport with human follies, not with crimes :" ' — the legal and genuine purpose of dramatic representation, and such appears to have been Jonson's... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1811 - 698 Seiten
...nimble squib is seen, to make afear'd The gentlewomen ; nor rolled bullet heard To say, it thunders ; nor tempestuous drum Rumbles, to tell you when the...times, And sport with human follies, not with crimes; Except we make 'em such, by loving still Our popular errors, when we know they're ill. I mean such... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1811 - 690 Seiten
...nimble squib is seen, to make afear'd The gentlewomen ; nor rolled bullet heard To say, it thunders ; nor tempestuous drum Rumbles, to tell you when the...times, And sport with human follies, not with crimes; Except we make 'em such, by loving still Our popular errors, when we know they're ill. I mean such... | |
 | British drama - 1811 - 696 Seiten
...nimble squib is seen, to make afear'd The gentlewomen ; nor rolled bullet heard To say, it thunders ; nor tempestuous drum Rumbles, to tell you when the...times, And sport with human follies, not with crimes; Except we make 'em such, by loving still Our popular errors, when we know they're ill. I mean such... | |
 | Ben Jonson, John Fletcher, Francis Beaumont - 1811 - 780 Seiten
...nimble squib is seen to make afeard The gentlewomen ; nor roul'd bullet heard To say, it thunders; nor tempestuous drum Rumbles, to tell you when the...such as men do use, And persons, such as Comedy would chuse, VV hen she would shew an image of the times, And sport with human follies, not with crimes.'... | |
 | Ben Jonson, William Gifford - 1816 - 538 Seiten
...nimble squib is seen to make afeard The gentlewomen ; nor roll'd bullet heard To say, it thunders ; nor tempestuous drum Rumbles, to tell you when the...persons, such as comedy would choose, When she would sheto an image of the times, And sport with human follies, not with crimes? * This Prologue, which... | |
 | Ben Jonson, William Gifford - 1816 - 546 Seiten
...bullet heard To say, it thunders ; nor tempestuous drum Rumbles, to tell you when the storm doth com$ But deeds, and language, such as men do use/ And persons,...she would shew an image of the times, And sport with human^foUies, not with primes.1 Prologue, which was probably written in 1596, (see p. xxviii.) does... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1821 - 432 Seiten
...nimble squib is seen, to make afeard The gentlewomen; nor rolled bullet heard To say, it thunders; nor tempestuous drum Rumbles, to tell you when the...such as men do use. And persons, such as comedy would chuse, * When she would shew an image of the times, And sport with human follies, not with crimes;... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1821 - 442 Seiten
...storm doth come ; But deeds, and language, such as men do use, And persons, such as comedy would chusc, When she would shew an image of the times, And sport with human follies, not with crimes ; Except we make them such, by loving still Our popular errors, as jwu'll all confess, By laughing... | |
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