 | Philip Ayres - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 308 pages
...the point of view by putting it into the mouth of Lord Froth, not a character to be taken seriously: 'There is nothing more unbecoming a man of quality than to laugh; Jesu, 'tis such a vulgar expression of the passion.'30 Others, however, seem to have shared Chesterfield's... | |
 | Connie Robertson - Reference - 1998 - 686 pages
...of pleasure which human nature cannot do without. CONGREVE William 1670-1729 2506 The Double Dealer ! k ˤ 50m RB V 3 z LB! =K ; F ώ k ' - S; Jesu, 'tis such a vulgar expression of the passion! 2507 The Double Dealer She lays it on with a trowel.... | |
 | Connie Robertson - Humor - 1998 - 404 pages
...when you can't go to see somebody. That's all it is. CONGREVE William 1670-1729 1006 The Double Dealer There is nothing more unbecoming a man of quality than to laugh; Jesu, 'tis such a vulgar expression of the passion! 1007 The Double Dealer She lays it on with a trowel.... | |
 | John Spiegel - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 180 pages
...low and unbecoming a thing laughter is."71 A similar sentiment is voiced in one of Congreve's plays: "There is nothing more unbecoming a Man of quality than to Laugh; Jesu, 'tis such a Vulgar Expression of the Passion!"72 Yet the ultimate source of Marmeladov's seriousness... | |
 | Kenelm Henry Digby - Children - 1858 - 292 pages
...of mind more suddenly than all — unless, indeed, you resemble in character Lord Froth, who thinks "there is nothing more unbecoming a man of quality than to laugh; saying, 'tis such a vulgar expression; and then the idea of smiling at the jest of an inferior person,... | |
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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! 
