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 1edited by - 1811Full view - About this book
| 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,... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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... | |
| 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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