 | John Dryden - 1800 - 624 pages
...am not so fitted by nature to write comedy : I want that gaiety of humour which is required to it. My conversation is slow and dull, my humour saturnine...endeavour to break jests in company, or make repartees. So that those who decry my comedies, do me no injury, except it be in point of profit : reputation... | |
 | John Dryden, Edmond Malone - English prose literature - 1800 - 591 pages
...am not so fitted by nature to write comedy : I want that gaiety of humour which is required to it. My conversation is slow and dull, my humour saturnine...endeavour to break jests in company, or make repartees. So that those who decry my comedies, do me no injury, except it be in point of profit : reputation... | |
 | Joseph Warton - 1806 - 440 pages
...descriptions of his mule, his dinner, • * " My conversation (says Dryden, very entertainingly> of himself) is slow and dull, my humour saturnine and reserved....endeavour to break jests in company, or make repartees." Preface to his Indian Emperor. dinner, his supper, his furniture, his amusements, his walks, his time... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - Anecdotes - 1807 - 538 pages
...orators. Vaucanson was eaid to be as much a machine as any he had made. Dryden says of himself, — " My conversation is slow and dull, my humour saturnine...endeavour to break jests in company, or make repartees." VIDA. WHAT a consolation for an aged parent to see his child, by the efforts of his own merits, attain... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - English literature - 1808 - 486 pages
...am not so fitted by nature to write comedy : I want that gaiety of humour which is required to it. My conversation is slow and dull ; my humour saturnine...endeavour to break jests in company, or make repartees. So that those, who decry my comedies, do me no injury, except it be in point of profit : reputation... | |
 | 1813 - 458 pages
...Genius to observe, Dryden says of himself, — " My conversation is slow and dull, my humour saturnme and reserved. In short, I am none of those who endeavour to break jests in company, or make repartees." THE ABSENT MAN. , The Count De Brancas was reading by the fire-side, (but Heaven knows with what degree... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1821 - 488 pages
...am not so fitted by nature to write comedy : I want that gaiety of humour which is required to it. My conversation is slow and dull ; my humour saturnine...endeavour to break jests in company, or make repartees. So that those, who decry my comedies, do me no injury, except it be in point of profit : reputation... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - Authors, English - 1822 - 312 pages
...not a word of fancy or eloquence warmed him ; ADDISON and MOLIERE were only observers in society ; and DRYDEN has very honestly told us, " My conversation...intellect, the most delightful conversationists ; but he felt that he could not contribute to these seductive pleasures, and at last confessed that he could... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - Culture in literature - 1824 - 538 pages
...orators. Vaucanson was said to be as much a machine as any he had made. Dryden says of himself, — " My conversation is slow and dull, my humour saturnine...endeavour to break jests in company, or make repartees," VIDA. WHAT a consolation for an aged parent to see his child, by the efforts of his own merits, attain... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - Authors - 1835 - 474 pages
...said of himself,—' My conversation is slow and dull, my humour saturnine and reserved. In short,! am none of those who endeavour to break jests in company, or make repartees. VIDA. What a consolation for an aged parent to see his child, by the efforts of his own merits, attain... | |
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My conversation is slow and dull; my humour saturnine and reserved: In short, I am none of those who endeavour to break jests in company, or make repartees. 
