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" He rather prays you will be pleased to see One such, today, as other plays should be; Where neither chorus wafts you o'er the seas, Nor creaking throne comes down the boys to please, Nor nimble squib is seen to make afeard The gentlewomen, nor rolled... "
The Modern British Drama: Comedies - Page 1
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The Works of John Dryden: In Verse and Prose, Volume 2

John Dryden - 1859 - 482 pages
...afeard The gentlewomen ; nor rolled hullet heard To say, it thunders ; nor tempestuous drum Rumhles, to tell you when the storm doth come : But deeds,...persons, such as comedy would choose, When she would show an image of the times, And sport with human follies, not with erimes; Except we make them such,...
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History of William Shakespeare, Player and Poet: With New Facts and Traditions

Stephen Watson Fullom - Dramatists, English - 1864 - 394 pages
...be; Where neither chorus wafts you o'er the seas, Nor creaking throne comes down the boys to please: Nor nimble squib is seen to make afeard The gentlewomen...to tell you when the storm doth come. But deeds and lauguage, such as men do use, And persons such as Comedy would choose When she would show an image...
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Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature, Volume 5; Volume 68

John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1867 - 824 pages
...seas, Nor creaking throne comes down, the boys to please ; Nor nimble squib is seen to make afcard The gentlewomen ; nor rolled bullet heard To say,...do use, And persons, such as Comedy would choose, AVhen she would show an image of the times, And sport with human follies, not with crimes." On another...
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The Pictorial edition of the works of Shakspere, ed. by C. Knight. [8 vols ...

William Shakespeare - 1867 - 938 pages
...country, with the manners of fc» own days, be made them speak like ordinary human beings, shewing " e gold crown. ACT IV.] (SlEM! IV. drums ! Only to...young boy the count, have I run into this danger : We пму believe, therefore, the tradition (without adopting the circumstances which make it difficult...
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Studies of Shakspere

Charles Knight - 1868 - 578 pages
...country, with the manners of his own days, he made them speak like ordinary human beings, showing " deeds and language such as men do use, And persons such as Comedy would choose, When she would show an image of the times, And sport with human follies, not with crimes."* We may believe, therefore,...
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Studies of Shakspere

Charles Knight - 1868 - 570 pages
...comes down the boys to please: Nor nimble squib is seen to make afeard The gentlewomen; nor roll'd bullet heard, To say, it thunders : nor tempestuous...drum Rumbles, to tell you when the storm doth come." It is scarcely probable, if Jonson had meant to allude to 'The Tempest,' either in the Prologue or...
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The Works of the British Dramatists: Carefully Selected from the Original ...

English drama - 1870 - 610 pages
...nimble squib is seen to make afeard The gentlewomen ; nor roll'd bullet heard To say, it thundere ; ut of the show an imago of tho times, And sport with human follies, not with crimes. Except we make them such,...
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The works of the British dramatists, selected, with notes ..., Volume 31

sir John Scott Keltie - 1870 - 588 pages
...afeard The gentlewomen ; nor roll'd bullet heard To say, it thunders ; nor tempestuous drum Bumbles, to tell you when the storm doth come ; But deeds,...persons, such as comedy would choose, When she would show an image of the times, And sport with human follies, not with crimes. Except we make them such,...
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A New Variorum Edition of Shakespeare: The tempest. 1892

William Shakespeare - 1895 - 486 pages
...to make afeard The gentlewomen ; nor roll'd bullet heard To say, it thunders ; nor tempestuous dram Rumbles, to tell you when the storm doth come ; But...with human follies, not with crimes. Except we make them such, by loving still Our popular errors, when we know they're ill. I mean such errors, as you'll...
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Middlemarch, by George Eliot, Volume 1

Mary Ann Evans - 1873 - 432 pages
...after that dinner-party she had become Mrs Casaubon, and was on her way to Borne. VOL. I. CHAPTER XI. ' But deeds and language such as men do use, And persons such as comedy would choose, When she would show an image of the times, And sport with human follies, not with crimes." —BEN JONSOS. LYDGATE,...
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