 | William Shakespeare - 1803 - 494 pages
...successful, when he engages his characters in reciprocations of smartness and contests of sarcasm; their jests are commonly gross, and their pleasantry licentious;...from his clowns by any appearance of refined manners. Whether he represented the real conversation of his .time is not easy to determine ; the reign of Elizabeth... | |
 | William Shakespeare, George Steevens, Samuel Johnson - 1803 - 542 pages
...reciprocations of fmartnefs and contefts of farcafm ; their jefts are commonly grofs, and their pleafantry licentious; neither his gentlemen nor his ladies have much .delicacy, nor are fiifficiently diftinguiflied from his clowns by any appearance of refined manners. Whether he represented... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1802 - 422 pages
...reciprocations of fmartnefs and contefts of farcafm ; their ^jefts are commonly grofs, and their pleafantry licentious ; neither his gentlemen nor his ladies have much delicacy, nor are fufficiently drftinguifhed from his clowns by any appearance of refined manners. Whether he reprefented... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1806 - 394 pages
...successful, when he engages his characters in reciprocations of smartness and contests of sarcasm ; their jests are commonly gross, and their pleasantry licentious...from his clowns by any appearance of refined manners. Whether he represented the real conversation of his time is not easy to determine; the reign of Elizabeth... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1806 - 376 pages
...successful, when he engages his characters in reciprocations of smartness and contests of sarcasm; their jests are commonly gross, and their pleasantry licentious...distinguished from his clowns by any appearance of Tclined manners. Whether he represented the real conversation of his time is not easy to deterjnine... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1809 - 390 pages
...successful, when lie engages his characters in reciprocations of smartness and contests of sarcasm; their jests are commonly gross, and their pleasantry licentious;...from his clowns by any appearance of refined manners. Whether he represented the real conversation of his time is not easy to determine; the reign of Elizabeth... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1809 - 488 pages
...successful, when he engages his characters in reciprocations of smartness and contests of sarcasm ; their jests are commonly gross, and their pleasantry licentious...from his clowns by any appearance of refined manners. Whether he represented the real conversation of his time is not easy to determine ; the reign of Elizabeth... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1809 - 394 pages
...successful, when he engages his characters in reciprocations of smartness and contests of sarcasm i their jests are commonly gross, and their pleasantry licentious;...from his clowns by any appearance of refined manners. Whether he represented the real conversation of his time is not easy to determine ; the reign of Elizabeth... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1810 - 486 pages
...successful", when he engages his characters in reciprocations of smartness and contests of sarcasm ; their jests are commonly gross, and their pleasantry licentious;...his clowns by any appearance of refined- manners. Whether he represented the real conversation of his time is not easy to determine: the reign of Elizabeth... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1810 - 444 pages
...successful, when he engages his characters in reciprocations of smartness and contests of sarcasm ; their jests are commonly gross, and their pleasantry licentious...from his clowns by any appearance of refined manners. Whether he represented the real conversation of his time is not easy to determine ; the reign of Elizabeth... | |
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In his comic scenes he is seldom very successful when he engages his characters in reciprocations of smartness and contests of sarcasm; their jests are commonly gross and their pleasantry licentious; neither his gentlemen nor his ladies have much delicacy,... 
