| John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808 - 432 Seiten
...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 ; Except we make them such, by loving still Our popular errors, as you'll all confess, By laughing... | |
| 1808 - 546 Seiten
...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... | |
| Ben Jonson, John Fletcher, Francis Beaumont - 1811 - 780 Seiten
...deeds, and language, 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.' Except we make 'em such, by ¡ovinpr still Our popular erro«, when we know th' are ill. 1 mean such... | |
| Walter Scott - 1811 - 690 Seiten
...deeds, and language, such as men do use, And persons, such as comedy would choose, When she would shew 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 ill. I mean such... | |
| Walter Scott - 1811 - 698 Seiten
...deeds, and language, such as men do use, And persons, such as comedy would choose, When she would shew 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 ill. I mean such... | |
| British drama - 1811 - 696 Seiten
...deeds, and language, such as men do use, And persons, such as comedy would choose, When she would shew 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 ill. I mean such... | |
| Ben Jonson, William Gifford - 1816 - 538 Seiten
...deeds, and language, such as men do use, And 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 was probably written in 1596, (see p. A xviii. ) docs not appear to have been... | |
| John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1821 - 432 Seiten
...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; Except we make them such, by loving still Our popular errors, as you'll all confess, By laughing at... | |
| 1825 - 338 Seiten
...2, 1825. VOL. I. OF •wxx.x.IAin OXBEH.BY, A person such as comedy would chuse, When she would shew an image of the times, And sport with human follies — not with crimes. THERE is a feeling connected with death, that would fain treat this memoir with serious attention ;... | |
| John Dryden, John Mitford - 1836 - 488 Seiten
...tell you when the storm doth come ; But deeds, and language, such as men do use, And persons, such as comedy would choose, When she would show an image...times, And sport with human follies, not with crimes; Except we make them such, by loving still Our popular errors, as you'll all confess, By laughing at... | |
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