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" Comedy is an imitation of the common errors of our life, which he representeth in the most ridiculous and scornful sort that may be, so as it is impossible that any beholder can be content to be such a one. "
Autobiography of an Actress: Or, Eight Years on the Stage - Page 436
by Anna Cora Ogden Mowatt Ritchie - 1854 - 448 pages
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Ben Jonson's Every Man in His Humour

Ben Jonson - English drama - 1919 - 252 pages
...imitation of the common errors of our life, which he representeth in the most ridiculous and scornefull sort that may be ; so as it is impossible that any beholder can be content to be such a one . . . with hearing it we get as it were an experience, what is to be looked for of a nigardly Denua,...
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Illinois Studies in Language and Literature

Comedy - 1950 - 614 pages
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Every Man in His Humour

Ben Jonson - Comedies of humours - 1921 - 572 pages
...imitation of the common errors of our life, which he represented in the most ridiculous and scornful sort that may be, so as it is impossible that any beholder can be content to be such a one .... the sack of his own faults lie so behinde his back, that he seeth not himself to dance the same...
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English Critical Essays (sixteenth, Seventeenth, and Eighteenth Centuries ...

Edmund David Jones - Criticism - 1922 - 522 pages
...imitation of the common errors of our life, which he representeth in the most ridiculous and scornful sort that may be, so as it is impossible that any beholder can be content to be such a one. Now, as in Geometry the oblique must be known, as well as the right, and in Arithmetic the odd as well...
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The Elizabethan Stage, Volume 4

Edmund Kerchever Chambers - Actors - 1923 - 492 pages
...imitation of the common errors of our life, which he representeth, in the most ridiculous and scornefull sort that may be. So as it is impossible, that any beholder can be content to be such a one. ... So that the right vse of Comedy will (I thinke) by no body be blamed, and much lesse of the high...
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The Complete Works of Sir Philip Sidney: The defence of poesie. Political ...

Sir Philip Sidney - 1923 - 468 pages
...imitatid,of the comon errors of our life, which he representeth in the "most ridiculous & scornfull sort that may be : so as it is impossible that any beholder can be content to be such a one. Now as in Geometrie, the oblique must be knowne as well as the right, and in Arithmetic^, the odde...
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European Theories of the Drama: An Anthology of Dramatic Theory and ...

Barrett Harper Clark - Drama - 1918 - 532 pages
...imitation of the common errors of our life, which he representeth in the most ridiculous and scornful sort that may be; so as it is impossible that any beholder can be content to be such a one. Now, as in Geometry the oblique must be known as well as the right, and in Arithmetic the odd as well...
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Studies in English, Volume 6

University of Texas - American literature - 1926 - 212 pages
...imitation of the common errors of our life, which he representeth in the most ridiculous and scornefull sort that may be; so as it is impossible that any beholder can be content to be such a one" (op. cit., I, pp. 176-177). 39As Berdan says, the humanists "are nothing if not moral" (op. cit., p....
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Old English Dramatists

Yoshisaburo Okakura - 1928 - 528 pages
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European Theories of the Drama: An Anthology of Dramatic Theory and ...

Barrett Harper Clark - Drama - 1929 - 544 pages
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