 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - English literature - 1808 - 564 pages
...swerve from the character, and obliged to say nothing but what is proper to it ; but in the playes which have been wrote of late, there is no such thing as perfect character, but the two chiel persons are most commonly a swearing, drinking, whoring ruffian for a lover, and impudent, ill-bred... | |
 | John Dryden - 1821 - 570 pages
...swerve from the character, and obliged to say nothing but what is proper to it ; but in the playes which have been wrote of late, there is no such thing...swearing, drinking, whoring ruffian for a lover, and impudent, ill-bred tomrig for a mistress, and these are the fine people of the play ; and there is... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1826 - 526 pages
...cause with Crowne to write those Remarks, which were to demolish Settle's « Empress of Morocco.» which have been wrote of late, there is no such thing...swearing, drinking, whoring ruffian for a lover, and impudent, ill-bred tomrig for a mistress, and these are the fine people of the play ; and there is... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1826 - 532 pages
...cause with Crowne to write those Remarks, which were to demolish Settle's «Empress of Morocco. » which have been wrote of late, there is no such thing...swearing, drinking, whoring ruffian for a lover, and impudent, ill-bred tomrig for a mistress, and these are the fine people of the play ; and there is... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart [prose, collected]) - 1827 - 564 pages
...swerve from the character, and obliged to say nothing but what is proper to it ; but in the playes which have been wrote of late, there is no such thing...swearing, drinking, whoring ruffian for a lover, and impudent, ill-bred tomrig for a mistress, and these are the fine people of the play ; and there is... | |
 | Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - Bibliography - 1828 - 550 pages
...is confined not to swerve from the character, and obliged to say nothing but what is proper to it : but in the plays which have been wrote of late, there...swearing, drinking, whoring ruffian for a lover, and an impudent, illbred tomrig for a mistress ; and these are the fine people of the play; and there is... | |
 | Walter Scott - Authors, English - 1829 - 344 pages
...swerve from the character, and obliged to say nothing birt what is proper to it; but in the playes which have been wrote of late, there is no such thing...swearing, drinking, whoring ruffian for a lover, and impudent, ill-bred tomrig for a mistress, and these are the fine people of the play; and there is that... | |
 | Walter Scott - Chivalry - 1834 - 486 pages
...swerve from the character, and obliged to say nothing but what is proper to it ; but in the playes which have been wrote of late, there is no such thing...swearing, drinking, whoring ruffian for a lover, and impudent, ill-bred tomrig for a mistress, and these are the fine people of the play ; and there is... | |
 | Walter Scott - English literature - 1834 - 516 pages
...swerve from the character, and obliged to say nothing but what is proper to it ; hut in the playes which have been wrote of late, there is no such thing as perfect character, but the two chief persons arc most commonly a swearing, drinking, whoring ruffian for a lover, and impudent, ill-bred tomrig... | |
 | Walter Scott, J. M. W. (Joseph Mallord William) Turner - Demonology - 1869 - 486 pages
...swerve from the character, and obliged to say nothing but what is proper to it ; but in the playes which have been wrote of late, there is no such thing...most commonly a swearing, drinking, whoring ruffian fora lover, and impudent, ill-bred tomrig for a mistress, and these are the fine people of the play... | |
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Character, but the two chief persons are most commonly a Swearing, Drinking, W'horing, Ruffian for a Lover, and an impudent ill-bred tomrig for a Mistress... 
