 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
 | Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, George H. Warner, Edward Cornelius Towne, George Henry Warner - Anthologies - 1897 - 644 pages
...: 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;...persons such as comedy would choose, When she would show an image of the times, And sport with human follies, not with crimes. SONG TO CELIA DRINK to me... | |
 | Literature - 1901 - 628 pages
...afeard The gentlewomen ; nor rolled bullet heard To say, it thunders ; nor tempestuous drum Humbles, to tell you when the storm doth come : But deeds and...persons such as comedy would choose, When she would show an image of the times, And sport with human follies, not with crimes. SONG TO CELIA. DRINK to... | |
 | Ashley Horace Thorndike - England - 1901 - 198 pages
...chron1cle-h1story plays and declared his intention to present one play such as other plays should be, with "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." In this play he initiated... | |
 | Sidney Lanier - English poetry - 1902 - 466 pages
...creaking throne comes down the boys to please ; Nor nimble squib is seen to make afeard The gentlewomen ; nor tempestuous drum Rumbles to tell you when the...times And sport with human follies, not with crimes. With these hints of the appearance of the stage as Shakspere saw it in 1582, I am now to set before... | |
 | Literature - 1903 - 820 pages
...creaking throne comes down the boys to please; Nor nimble squib is seen to make afeard The gentlewomen ; nor tempestuous drum Rumbles to tell you when the...times, And sport with human follies, not with crimes. When the play ended, Shakespeare moved out as well as he could through the struggling throng. Just... | |
 | George Ansel Watrous - English drama - 1903 - 334 pages
...firm friendship of later years. In the prologue Jonson sets forth the scheme of the play : — ". . . deeds, and language, such as men do use, And persons,...times, And sport with human follies, not with crimes." There is no great complexity of plot ; interest is centred in character and people, not in incident.... | |
 | William John Courthope - English poetry - 1903 - 642 pages
...Altered, says to Don Balladino : " Indeed that's right, you are in print already for the best plotter." Rumbles, to tell you when the storm doth come ; But...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,... | |
 | Elbert Nevius Sebring Thompson - Dissertations, Academic - 1903 - 300 pages
...Shakspere's. In what was probably his earliest play, he renounced the romantic school of his day to portray :3 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. This conception of comedy... | |
 | Malcolm William Wallace, Martin Slaughter - Comparative literature - 1903 - 200 pages
...weed, Past threescore years. What he himself proposes to do he also declares. He will show forth . . . 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. This he believed to be the... | |
 | Charles Isaac Elton, Andrew Lang - 1904 - 552 pages
...birth or living creature degenerating from the proper form of its species ; it was used for any large To say, it thunders ; nor tempestuous drum Rumbles,...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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