 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; Except we make 'em such, by loving still Our popular errors, when we know they're...  A Short History of the English Drama - Seite 94von Benjamin Brawley - 1921 - 260 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808 - 432 Seiten
...heard To say, it thunders ; nor tempestuous drum Humbles, to telt you when the storm doth come 5 But deeds, and language, such as men do use. And persons, such as comedy would chuse ; When she would shew an image of the times, And sport with human follies, not with crimes ;... | |
 | 1808 - 546 Seiten
...and to win them by ridicule from buffoonery, bombast, and empty machinery, % V 1 en she wonld shew an image of the times ; And sport with human follies, not with crimes :" ' — the legal and genuine purpose of dramatic representation, and such appears to have been Jonson's... | |
 | British drama - 1811 - 696 Seiten
...heard To say, it thunders ; nor tempestuous drum Rumbles, to tell you when the storm doth come; But deeds, and language, such as men do use, And persons, such as comedy would choose, When she would shew an image of the times, And sport with human follies, not with crimes; Except we make 'em such,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1811 - 698 Seiten
...heard To say, it thunders ; nor tempestuous drum Rumbles, to tell you when the storm doth come) But deeds, and language, such as men do use, And persons, such as comedy would choose, When she would shew an image of the times, And sport with human follies, not with crimes; Except we make 'em such,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1811 - 690 Seiten
...heard To say, it thunders ; nor tempestuous drum Rumbles, to tell you when the storm doth come; But deeds, and language, such as men do use, And persons, such as comedy would choose, When she would shew an image of the times, And sport with human follies, not with crimes; Except we make 'em such,... | |
 | Ben Jonson, John Fletcher, Francis Beaumont - 1811 - 780 Seiten
...heard To say, it thunders; nor tempestuous drum Rumbles, to tell you when the storm doth come ; But deeds, and language, such as men do use, And persons, such as Comedy would chuse, VV hen she would shew an image of the times, And sport with human follies, not with crimes.'... | |
 | Ben Jonson, William Gifford - 1816 - 538 Seiten
...heard To say, it thunders ; nor tempestuous drum Rumbles, to tell you when the storm doth come ; But deeds, and language, such as men do use, And persons, such as comedy would choose, When she would sheto an image of the times, And sport with human follies, not with crimes? * This Prologue, which... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1821 - 432 Seiten
...heard To say, it thunders; nor tempestuous drum Rumbles, to tell you when the storm doth come; But deeds, and language, such as men do use. And persons, such as comedy would chuse, * When she would shew an image of the times, And sport with human follies, not with crimes;... | |
 | 1825 - 338 Seiten
...2, 1825. VOL. I. OF •wxx.x.IAin OXBEH.BY, A person such as comedy would chuse, When she would shew an image of the times, And sport with human follies — not with crimes. THERE is a feeling connected with death, that would fain treat this memoir with serious attention ;... | |
 | 1821 - 464 Seiten
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