 | John Dryden - 1725 - 438 pages
...Wit, than in thofe of Humour ; yet that Latitude would be of fmall Advantage to fetch Poets, -who bave too narrow an Imagination to write it. And to entertain...Audience perpetually with Humour, is to carry them from theConverfation of Gentlemen, and treat them with the Follies and Extravagancies of Bedlam. I find... | |
 | John Dryden, Edmond Malone - English prose literature - 1800 - 591 pages
...borrowed from the sixth satire of Juvenal against women. However, if I should grant, that there were a greater latitude in characters of wit, than in those...extravagancies of 'Bedlam. . . ' . I find I have launched but farther than 'I intended in the beginning.' of this Preface; and 'that, in the heat of writing,... | |
 | John Dryden - 1800 - 624 pages
...borrowed from the sixth satire of Juvenal against women. However, if I should grant, that there were a greater latitude in characters of wit, than in those...them with the follies and extravagancies of Bedlam. i I find I have launched out farther than I intended in the beginning of this Preface ; and that, in... | |
 | John Dryden - English literature - 1808 - 462 pages
...books : Witness the speeches in the first act, translated verbatim out of Ovid, " De Arte Ainandi" To omit what afterwards he /borrowed from the sixth...treat them with the follies and extravagancies of I,edlam. I find I have launched out farther than I intended in the beginning of this preface ; and... | |
 | John Dryden - Criticism - 1900 - 412 pages
...borrowed from the sixth satire of Juvenat^against women. 30 However, if I should grant, that there were a greater latitude in characters of wit, than in those...to entertain an audience perpetually with humour, , 35 is to carry them from the conversation of gentlemen, and treat them with the follies and extravagancies... | |
 | John Dryden - Criticism - 1900 - 420 pages
...borrowed from the sixth satire of Juvenal against women. 30 However, if I should grant, that there were a greater latitude in characters of wit, than in those...to entertain an audience perpetually with humour, 35 is to carry them from the conversation of gentlemen, and treat them with the follies and extravagancies... | |
 | John Dryden - Literary Criticism - 2023 - 586 pages
...borrowed from the sixth Satyre of Juvenal against Women. 20 However, if I should grant, that there were a greater latitude in Characters of Wit, than in those...of Gentlemen, and treat them with the follies and extravagances of Bedlam. I find I have launch'd out farther than I intended in the beginning of this... | |
 | Daniel Wickberg - History - 1998 - 292 pages
...present. John Dryden, arguing in support of comedy based on wit, as opposed to humor, claimed in 1671 that "to entertain an Audience perpetually with Humour,...of Gentlemen, and treat them with the follies and extravagances of Bedlam ."31 If wit was "the conversation of gentlemen," based on cleverness, refinement,... | |
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However, if I should grant that there were a greater latitude in characters of wit than in those of humour; yet that latitude would be of small advantage to such poets who have too narrow an imagination to write it. And to entertain an audience perpetually... 