 | Frank Kidson - 1922 - 144 pages
...the town.' The Beggar now shows really what was in Gay's mind when he wrote the play. He continues: 'Through the whole piece you may observe such a similitude...road, or the gentlemen of the road the fine gentlemen. Had the play remained as I at first intended, it would have carried a most excellent moral. T' would... | |
 | John Gay, John Christopher Pepusch - 1922 - 110 pages
...Triumph. PLAYER. All this we must do, to comply with the Taste of the Town. BEGGAR. Throjjgh_.ihe_ whole Piece you may\ — observe such a Similitude of Manners In high and \ low Life, .thaiJ±-Js_difficult to determine whether / (in the fashionable Vices) the fine Gentlemen imitate... | |
 | Kenneth Newton Colvile - 1923 - 296 pages
...person of his Beggar, to remind us that the whole thing may fittingly be transposed to a higher key : 'Through the whole Piece you may observe such a similitude...road, or the gentlemen of the road the fine gentlemen. Had the Play remained as I at first intended, it would have carried a most excellent moral ; 't would... | |
 | Leander Jan De Bekker - 1924 - 782 pages
...success in topsy-turvydom is explained in lines which he puts in the mouth of the beggar : " Throughout the whole piece you may observe such a similitude...difficult to determine whether (in the fashionable sense) the fine gentlemen imitate the gentlemen of the road, or the gentlemen of the road imitate the... | |
 | Sir Nigel Playfair - 1925 - 316 pages
...— in short, more like gentlemen." As Gay himself said in his preface, " Throughout the whole opera you may observe such a similitude of manners in high...or the gentlemen of the road the fine gentlemen." But whatever moralists might say, there could be no doubt that it hit the public taste. " What, Polly... | |
 | Leander Jan De Bekker - 1916 - 724 pages
...explained in lines which he puts in the mouth of the beggar : " Throughout the whole piece you may observo such a similitude of manners in high and low life...difficult to determine whether (in the fashionable sense) the fine gentlemen imitate the gentlemen of the road, or the gentlemen of the road imitate the... | |
 | John Gay - 1926 - 758 pages
...back to his wives in triumph. Play. All this we must do, to comply with the taste of the town. X, Beg. Through the whole piece you may observe such a similitude...road, or the gentlemen of the road the fine gentlemen. — — Had the Play remairi'd, as I at first intended, it would have carried a most excellent moral.... | |
 | John Gay - 1926 - 762 pages
...the taste of the town. Beg. '' Through the whole piece you may observe such a similitude of anners in high and low life, that it is difficult to determine...road, or the gentlemen of the road the fine gentlemen. Had the Play remain'd, as I at first intended, it would have carried a most excellent moral. 'Twould... | |
 | Robert Metcalf Smith, Howard Garrett Rhoads - 1928 - 618 pages
...to his wives in triumph. PLAYEB. All this we must do to comply with the taste of the town. BEGGAR. Through the whole piece you may observe such a similitude...road, or the gentlemen of the road the fine gentlemen. Had the play remained as I at first intended it would have carried a most excellent moral. I would... | |
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Through the whole piece you may observe such a similitude of manners in high and low life, that it is difficult to determine whether (in the fashionable vices) the fine gentlemen imitate the gentlemen of the road, or the gentlemen of the road the fine... 
