 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - English literature - 1808 - 432 pages
...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 ;... | |
 | English literature - 1808 - 546 pages
...presentation, 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... | |
 | Walter Scott - English drama - 1811 - 698 pages
...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,...with human follies, not with crimes; Except we make 'em such, by loving still Our popular errors, when we know they're ill. I mean such errors as you'll... | |
 | British drama - 1811 - 696 pages
...heard To say, it thunders ; nor tempestuous drum Rumbles, to tell you when the storm doth come; But v e pD+O; b ܽHvi % H( Ϫ {g@! < 1 s j`) . 'em such, by loving still Our popular errors, when we know they're ill. I mean such errors as you'll... | |
 | Walter Scott - English drama - 1811 - 690 pages
...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,...with human follies, not with crimes; Except we make 'em such, by loving still Our popular errors, when we know they're ill. I mean such errors as you'll... | |
 | Ben Jonson, John Fletcher, Francis Beaumont - English drama - 1811 - 780 pages
...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 - Dramatists, English - 1816 - 546 pages
...heard To say, it thunders ; nor tempestuous drum Rumbles, to tell you when the storm doth com$ But deeds, and language, such as men do use/ And persons,...she would shew an image of the times, And sport with human^foUies, not with primes.1 Prologue, which was probably written in 1596, (see p. xxviii.) does... | |
 | Ben Jonson, William Gifford - Dramatists, English - 1816 - 538 pages
...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 - English literature - 1821 - 442 pages
...storm doth come ; But deeds, and language, such as men do use, And persons, such as comedy would chusc, When she would shew an image of the times, And sport...make them such, by loving still Our popular errors, as jwu'll all confess, By laughing at them, they deserve no less : Which when you heartily do, there's... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1821 - 432 pages
...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;... | |
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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... 
