He rather prays you will be pleased to see One such, today, as other plays should be; Where neither chorus wafts you o'er the seas, Nor creaking throne comes down the boys to please, Nor nimble squib is seen to make afeard The gentlewomen, nor rolled... The Modern British Drama: Comedies - Page 1edited by - 1811Full view - About this book
| John Dryden, Walter Scott - English literature - 1808 - 432 pages
...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 ; Except we make them such, by loving still Our popular errors, as you'll all confess, By laughing at them, they deserve... | |
| Ben Jonson, John Fletcher, Francis Beaumont - English drama - 1811 - 780 pages
...comes down the boy» to please : Nor nimble squib is seen to make afeard The gentlewomen ; nor roul'd bullet heard To say, it thunders; nor tempestuous...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 - Dramatists, English - 1816 - 538 pages
...comes down the boys to please : Nor nimble squib is seen to make afeard The gentlewomen ; nor roll'd bullet heard To say, it thunders ; nor tempestuous...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 - Dramatists, English - 1816 - 546 pages
...comes down the boys to please : Nor nimble sotuib. 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 storm doth com$ But deeds, and language, such as men do use/ And persons, such as comedy would choose, When she... | |
| John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1821 - 432 pages
...Where neither chorus wafts you o'er the seas, Nor creaking throne conies down, the boys to please, Nor nimble squib is seen, to make afeard The gentlewomen;...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 - English literature - 1821 - 442 pages
...please, Nor nimble squib is seen, to make afeard The gentlewomen ; nor rolled bullet heard To Bay, it thunders ; nor tempestuous drum Rumbles, to tell...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... | |
| 1825 - 338 pages
...XIV. SATURDAY, APRIL 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 - English literature - 1836 - 488 pages
...; Where neither chorus wafts you o'er the seas, Nor creaking throne comes down, the boys to please, Nor nimble squib Is seen, to make afeard The gentlewomen...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 them such,... | |
| Joseph Hunter - 1845 - 456 pages
...Where neither chorus wafts you o'er the seas, Nor creaking throne comes down, the boys to please : Nor nimble squib is seen to make afeard The gentlewomen...with human follies, not with crimes. Except we make them such, by loving still * Worts of Ben Jonson, Giflbrd's edition, 8vo. 1816, vol. ip xxv. of The... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1854 - 538 pages
...The gentlewomen j nor roll'd bullet heard To say it thunders ; nor tempestuous drum Rumbles, to Icll you when the storm doth come; But deeds and language...persons such as comedy would choose, When she would show an image of the times, And sport with human follies, not with crimes." H. 3 Opinion, the commentators... | |
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