| John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808 - 432 pages
...Humbles, to telt you when the storm doth come 5 But deeds, and language, such as men do use. And persons, such as comedy would chuse ; When she would shew an...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... | |
| 1808 - 546 pages
...presentation, and to win them by ridicule from buffoonery, bombast, and empty machinery, % V 1 en she wonld shew an image of the times ; And sport with human follies, not with crimes :" ' — the legal and genuine purpose of dramatic representation, and such appears to have been Jonson's... | |
| Walter Scott - 1811 - 690 pages
...storm doth come; But deeds, and language, such as men do use, And persons, such as comedy would choose, When she would shew an image of the times, And sport with human follies, not with crimes; Except we make 'em such, by loving still Our popular errors, when we know they're ill. I mean such... | |
| British drama - 1811 - 696 pages
...storm doth come; But deeds, and language, such as men do use, And persons, such as comedy would choose, w Except we make 'em such, by loving still Our popular errors, when we know they're ill. I mean such... | |
| Walter Scott - 1811 - 698 pages
...storm doth come) But deeds, and language, such as men do use, And persons, such as comedy would choose, When she would shew an image of the times, And sport with human follies, not with crimes; Except we make 'em such, by loving still Our popular errors, when we know they're ill. I mean such... | |
| Ben Jonson, John Fletcher, Francis Beaumont - 1811 - 780 pages
...come ; But deeds, and language, 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.' Except we make 'em such, by ¡ovinpr still Our popular erro«, when we know th' are ill. 1 mean such... | |
| Ben Jonson, William Gifford - 1816 - 538 pages
...deeds, and language, such as men do use, And 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 was probably written in 1596, (see p. A xviii. ) docs not appear to have been... | |
| Ben Jonson, William Gifford - 1816 - 546 pages
...storm doth com$ But deeds, and language, such as men do use/ And persons, such as comedy would choose, When she would shew an image of the times, And sport with human^foUies, not with primes.1 Prologue, which was probably written in 1596, (see p. xxviii.) does... | |
| John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1821 - 432 pages
...Rumbles, to tell you when the storm doth come; But deeds, and language, such as men do use. And persons, such as comedy would chuse, * When she would shew...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... | |
| John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1821 - 442 pages
...storm doth come ; But deeds, and language, 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 we make them such, by loving still Our popular errors, as jwu'll all confess, By laughing... | |
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