 | 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... | |
 | William John Courthope - English poetry - 1903 - 642 pages
...men, and modelled his dialogue on that of Plautus and Terence ; otherwise, in his close imitation of 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, his comic ideal did not... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Franz Georg Johannes Krämer - 1903 - 110 pages
...den ästhetischen Genuss verderben zu wollen. Das Wesen der echten Komödie sehe er darin, dass sie 'would shew an image of the times and sport with human follies, not with crimes.' Der' J.'sche Prolog geht also im ganzen von Gesichtspunkten allgemeiner Natur aus, die zu G. 's Zeit... | |
 | Malcolm William Wallace, Martin Slaughter - Comparative literature - 1903 - 200 pages
...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 legitimate end of comedy, and he found that it was practically exemplified... | |
 | Elbert Nevius Sebring Thompson - Puritans - 1903 - 288 pages
...language such as men do use, f\ And persons, such as comedy would choose, \ \J When she would show an image of the times \ And sport with human follies, not with crimes. \ This conception of comedy brought him into the midst of J the Puritan class for his material; for... | |
 | Ben Jonson - 1903 - 474 pages
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 | Charles Isaac Elton, Andrew Lang - 1904 - 544 pages
...large 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 show an image of the times, And sport with human follies, not with crimes. Except we make them such,... | |
 | George Gregory Smith - Criticism - 1904 - 524 pages
...doth come ; But deedes, and language, such as men doe vse, And persons, such as Comcedie would chuse, When she would shew an Image of the times, And sport with humane follies, not with crimes, Except we make 'hem such, by louing still Our popular errors, when... | |
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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... 
