 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808 - 432 pages
...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,...make them such, by loving still Our popular errors, as you'll all confess, By laughing at them, they deserve no tess : Which when you heartily do, there's... | |
 | 1808 - 546 pages
...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 pages
...deeds, and language, such as men do use, And persons, such as comedy would choose, When she would shew his morning. Mi •« Fain. Who ? Mira. Waitwell and Foible. I would not tempt my se '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 - 1811 - 780 pages
...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.' Except we make 'em such, by ¡ovinpr still Our popular erro«, when we know th' are ill. 1 mean such errors as you'll... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1811 - 698 pages
...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, by loving still Our popular errors, when we know they're ill. I mean such errors as you'll... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1811 - 690 pages
...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, by loving still Our popular errors, when we know they're ill. I mean such errors as you'll... | |
 | Ben Jonson, William Gifford - 1816 - 546 pages
...already fallen under the ridicule of Sir Philip Sydney and others in terms still stronger than these. Except we make them such, by loving still Our popular errors, when we know they're ili. I mean such errors as you'll all confess, By laughing at them, they deserve no less : Which when... | |
 | Ben Jonson, William Gifford - 1816 - 538 pages
...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 was probably written in 1596, (see p. A xviii. ) docs not appear to have been... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1821 - 432 pages
...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,...make them such, by loving still Our popular errors, as you'll all confess, By laughing at them, they deserve no less: Which when you heartily do, there's... | |
 | 1825 - 338 pages
...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 ;... | |
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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. 
