 | Robert Dodsley - 1874 - 412 Seiten
...pardon craves : his pen that shall amend. And yet (worshipful audience) thus much I dare avouch, In comedies the greatest skill is this, rightly to touch...by his common talk you may his nature rightly know : A roister ought not preach, that were too strange to hear, But as from virtue he doth swerve, so... | |
 | William Minto - 1874 - 506 Seiten
...starts in his prologue with very sound principles for the composition of comedy :— " In Comedies'the greatest skill is this, rightly to touch All things...by his common talk you may his nature rightly know : A Roister ought not to preach, that were too strange to hear, But as from virtue he doth swerve,... | |
 | William Minto - 1874 - 520 Seiten
...starts in his prologue with very sound principles for the composition of comedy : — " In Comedies'the greatest skill is this, rightly to touch All things...by his common talk you may his nature rightly know : A Roister ought not to preach, that were too strange to hear, But as from virtue he doth swerve,... | |
 | William Minto - 1885 - 422 Seiten
...Edwards starts in his prologue with very sound principles for the composition of comedy : — " In Comedies the greatest skill is this, rightly to touch...by his common talk you may his nature rightly know : A Roister ought not to preach, that were too strange to hear, But as from virtue he doth swerve,... | |
 | William Minto - 1885 - 436 Seiten
...Edwards starts in his prologue with very sound principles for the composition of comedy : — " In Comedies the greatest skill is this, rightly to touch All things to the ijuick, and eke to frame ea":h person so, That by his common talk you may his nature rightly know :... | |
 | Levin Ludwig Schücking - 1901 - 124 Seiten
...Blutvergiessen einst gethan (vgl. Ward aaO, I, S. 252), besprochen werden, ganz wiederzugeben : In comedies the greatest skill is this, rightly to touch...the quick, and eke to frame each person so, That by bis common talk you may his nature rightly know. A roister ought not preach, that were too stränge... | |
 | John Lyly - 1902 - 588 Seiten
...Grim the collier, Gronno the hangman, and Stephano the confidential servant of the two friends. In comedies the greatest skill is this, rightly to touch...by his common talk you may his nature rightly know : A roister ought not preach, that were too strange to hear, But as from virtue he doth swerve, so... | |
 | John Dover Wilson - 1905 - 162 Seiten
...better than in his own words: "In comedies the greatest skyll is this, lightly to touch All thynges to the quick; and eke to frame each person so That by his common talke, you may his nature rightly know." To touch lightly and yet with penetration, to reveal character... | |
 | Ernest Godfrey Hoffsten - 1908 - 44 Seiten
...be found. In Edward's "Damon and Pythias," the prologue contains the following noteworthy lines: "In comedies the greatest skill is this, rightly to touch...his common talk you may his nature rightly know." 1 Considering the early date, 1565, of the presentation of this play, this allusion becomes more interesting.... | |
 | Ernest Godfrey Hoffsten - 1908 - 36 Seiten
...found. In Edward's "Damon and Pythias," the prologue contains the following noteworthy lines: ' 'In comedies the greatest skill is this, rightly to touch...That by his common talk you may his nature rightly know."1 Considering the early date, 1565, of the presentation of this play, this allusion becomes more... | |
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In comedies the greatest skill is this, rightly to touch All things to the quick ; and eke to frame each person so, That by his common talk you may his nature rightly know : A roister ought not preach, that were too strange to hear, But as from virtue... 
