 | Ben Jonson, John Fletcher, Francis Beaumont - English drama - 1811 - 780 pages
...augmented it with ail liberty, according to the eleganry and disposition of those times wherein they wrote. I see not then, but we should enjoy the same licence,...illustrate and heighten our invention as they did ; and not be tied to those strict and regular forms which the niceness of a few, who are nothing but form, would... | |
 | Kenelm Henry Digby - 1854 - 626 pages
...others with all liberty, according to the elegancy and disposition of its times. Catholicism wills not, then, but we should enjoy the same licence or...illustrate and heighten our invention as they did, and not be tied to those strict and regular forms which the niceness of a few, who are nothing but form, would... | |
 | Benjamin Hall Kennedy - 1856 - 384 pages
...augmented it with all liberty, according to the elegancy and disposition of those times wherein they wrote. I see not then, but we should enjoy the same licence,...illustrate and heighten our invention, as they did, and not be tied to those strict and regular forms which the niceness of a few, who are nothing but form, would... | |
 | William Minto - English poetry - 1874 - 506 pages
...upon his predecessors " according to the elegancy and disposition of those times wherein he wrote." " I see not then but we should enjoy the same licence,...illustrate and heighten our invention, as they did; and not be tied to those strict and regular forms which the niceness of a few, who are nothing but form, would... | |
 | William Minto - 1874 - 520 pages
...upon his predecessors " according to the elegancy and disposition of those times wherein he wrote." " I see not then but we should enjoy the same licence,...and heighten our invention, as they did ; and not be tied to those strict and regular forms which the niceness of a. few, who are nothing but form, would... | |
 | Sir Adolphus William Ward - English drama - 1875 - 662 pages
...very properly says, after touching on the progressive character of the history of Classical Comedy: 'We should enjoy the same licence, or free power to illustrate and heighten our invention as they [the ancients] did ; and not be tied to those strict and regular forms which the niceness of a few,... | |
 | Ben Jonson - 1875 - 594 pages
...disposition of those times wherein they wrote. I see not then, but we should enjoy tJie same license, or free power to illustrate and heighten our invention, as they did ; and not be tied to those strict and regular forms which the niceness of a few, wJio are nothing but form, would... | |
 | Richard Green Moulton - Classical drama - 1890 - 512 pages
...liberality of those times wherein they wrote. I see not then but we should enjoy the same license, or free power to illustrate and heighten our invention, as they did ; and not be tied to those strict and regular forms which the niceness of a few, who are nothing but form, would... | |
 | Sir Adolphus William Ward - English drama - 1899 - 602 pages
...very properly says, after touching on the progressive character of the history of Classical Comedy : ' We should enjoy the same licence, or free power to illustrate and heighten our invention as they [the ancients] did ; and not be tied to those strict and regular forms which the niceness of a few,... | |
 | William John Courthope - English poetry - 1903 - 642 pages
...disposition of those times wherein they wrote. I see not then but we should enjoy the same license or free power to illustrate and heighten our invention as they did ; and not be tied to those strict and regular forms which the niceness of a few, who are nothing but form, would... | |
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I see not then, but we should enjoy the same licence, or free power to illustrate and heighten our invention, as they did ; and not be tied to those strict and regular forms which the niceness of a few, who are nothing but form, would thrust upon us. 
