 | William Congreve - English drama - 1730 - 306 pages
...fay any thing worthy to be laugh'd at? Lord FROTH. 0 foy, don't mifapprehend me, I don't fay fo, foe I often fmile at your Conceptions. But there is nothing more unbecoming to a Man of Quality, than, to Laugh; 'tis fuch a vulgar Expreflion of the Parfion ! every Body can... | |
 | William Congreve - 1735 - 112 pages
...Froth. O foy, don't mifapprehend me, I don't fay fo, for I often fmile at your Conceptions. But there it nothing more unbecoming a Man of Quality, than to Laugh ; 'tis fuch a vulgar Exprefiion of the Paffion ! every Body can laugh. Then efpecially to laugh at the Jed of an inferior... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - Criticism - 1762 - 480 pages
...never fay any thing worthy to be laugh'd at ? Lord Froth. O foy, don't mifapprehend me, I don't fay fb, for I often fmile at your conceptions. But there is...expreffion of the paffion ! every body can laugh. Thea efpecially to laugh at the jeft of an inferior perfon, or when any body elfe of the fame quality... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - Criticism - 1762 - 478 pages
...never fay any thing worthy to be laugh'd at ? Lord Froth. O foy, don't mifapprehend me, I don't fay fb, for I often fmile at your conceptions. But there is...man of quality, than to laugh ; 'tis fuch a vulgar expret fion of the paflion ! every body can laugh. Then efpecially to laugh at the jeft of an inferior... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - Criticism - 1765 - 534 pages
...what, affront my wit ! Let me perifh, do I never fay any thing worthy to be laugh'd at ? • '-Lord Froth; O foy, don't mifapprehend me, I don't fay fo,...than to laugh ; 'tis fuch a vulgar expreffion of the paQion ! every body can laugh. Then efpecially to laugh at the jeft of an inferior perfon, or when... | |
 | William Congreve - 1774 - 370 pages
...Froth. O foy ! don't mifapprehend me, I: don't fay fo, for I often finile at your Conceptions.. Eut there is nothing more unbecoming a Man of Quality, than to Laugh ; it is luch a vulgar Expieflion ot the Paffion ! Every body. can laugh. Thea eipecially to laugh at... | |
 | John Bell - English drama - 1780 - 414 pages
...O foy, don't mifapprehend me; 1 don't fay fo, for I often finile at your conceptions. But there ia nothing more unbecoming a man of quality, than to laugh; 'tis fuch a vulgar expreffion of the pailion ! every body can laugh. Then efpecially to laugh at the jeft of an inferior perlbn, or when... | |
 | Thomas Davies - Theater - 1784 - 524 pages
...fee how it is unravelled in the cataftrophe* • , Aft Double Dealer. Aft I. Scene IV. LORD FROTH. There is nothing more unbecoming a man of quality than to laugh ; — it is fuch a vulgar exprefllon of the paffions ! — Every body can laugh. Of the fame fentiment,... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - Criticism - 1788 - 548 pages
...never fay any thing worthy to be laugh'd at ? Lord Froth. O foy, don't mifapprehend me, I don't fay Ib, for I often fmile at your conceptions. But there is...man of quality than to laugh ; 'tis fuch a vulgar exprefiion of the pafiion ! every body can laugh. Then efpecially to laugh at the jeft of an inferior... | |
 | Colin Macfarquhar, George Gleig - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1796 - 426 pages
...me periih, do I never fay any thing worthy to be laugh'd at ? Lord Froth. О foy, don't mitapprehend me, I don't fay fo, for I often fmile at your conceptions....man of quality than to laugh ; 'tis fuch a vulgar cxpreflion of the paffions ! every body can laugh. Then efpecially to laus; h at the jeil of an inferior... | |
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I often smile at your conceptions. But there is nothing more unbecoming a man of quality than to laugh; 'tis such a vulgar expression of the passion! 
