 | English literature - 1804 - 188 pages
...Humour at present seems to be departing from the stage ; and it will soon happen that our comic plavers will have nothing left for it but a fine coat and...gloomy as at the tabernacle. It is not easy to recover au art when once lost ; and it will be but a just punishment, that when, by our being too fastidious,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1806 - 492 pages
...Humour at present seems to be departing from the stage ; and it will soon happen that our comic players will have nothing left for it but a fine coat and...but a just punishment, that when, by our being too fastidious, we have banished humour from the stage, we should ourselves be deprived of the art of laughing.... | |
 | Manual - Essays - 1809 - 324 pages
...be departing from the stage ; and it will soon happen that our comic players will have nothing left but a fine coat and a song. It depends upon the audience...gloomy as at the tabernacle. It is not easy to recover au art when once lost ; and it will be but a just punishment, that when by our being too fastidious... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1809 - 350 pages
...Humour at present seems to be departing from the stage ; and it will soon happen that our comic players will have nothing left for it but a fine coat and...those poor merry creatures from the stage, or sit at the play as gjoomy as at the tabernacle. It is not eaey to recover aflgift 'when once lost : and it... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1812 - 492 pages
...Humour at present seems to be departingfrom the stage ; and it will soon happen that our comic players will have nothing left for it but a fine coat and...but a just punishment, that when, by our being too fastidious, we have banished humour from the stage, we should ourselves be deprived of the art of laughing.... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1818 - 290 pages
...Humour at present seems to be departing from the stage; and it will soon happen, that our comic players will have nothing left for it but a fine coat and...they will actually drive those poor merry creatures f/pm the stage, or tit at a play as gloomy as at the tabernacle. It is not easy to recover an art when... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - English essays - 1820 - 514 pages
...Humour at present seems to be departing from the stage ; and it will soon happen that our comic players will have nothing left for it but a fine coat and...upon the audience, whether they will actually drive thost; poor merry creatures from the stage, or sit at a play as gloomy as at the tabernacle. It is... | |
 | British prose literature - 1821 - 384 pages
...at present seems to be departing from the stage ; and it will soon happen that our comic play-_ ers will have nothing left for it but a fine coat and...but a just punishment, that when, by our being too fastidious, we have banished humour from the stage, we should ourselves be deprived of the art of laughing.... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - English literature - 1825 - 448 pages
...Humour at present seems to be departing from the stage, and it will soon happen that our comic players will have nothing left for it but a fine coat and...but a just punishment, that when, by our being too fastidious, we have banished humour from the stage, we should ourselves be deprived of the art of laughing.... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1837 - 602 pages
...Humour at present seems to be departing from the stage ; and it will soon happen that our comic players will have nothing left for it but a fine coat and...easy to recover an art when once lost; and it will ba but a just punishment, that when, by our being too fastidious, we have banished humour from the... | |
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Humour at present seems to be departing from the stage, and it will soon happen that our comic players will have nothing left for it but a fine coat and a song. It depends upon the audience whether they will actually drive those poor merry creatures from... 
