 Tis true that, where ever I have liked any story in a romance, novel, or foreign play, I have made no difficulty, nor ever shall, to take the foundation of it, to build it up, and to make it proper for the English stage. And I will be so vain to say it...  Life's a dream: The great theatre of the world, from the Span., with an ... - Page 103by Pedro Calderón de la Barca - 1856Full view - About this book
 | John Dryden, Edmond Malone - 1800 - 591 lehte
...shall, to take the foundation of it, to build it up, and to make it proper for the English stage. And I will be so vain to say — it has lost nothing in my hands ; but it always cost me so much trouble to heighten it for our theatre, which is incomparably more... | |
 | John Dryden - 1800 - 624 lehte
...shall, to take the foundation of it, to build it up, and to make it proper for the English stage. And I will be so vain to say — it has lost nothing in my hands ; but it always cost me so much trouble to heighten it for our theatre, which is incomparably more... | |
 | John Dryden - 1808 - 462 lehte
...shall, to take the foundation of it, to build it up, and to make it proper for the English stage. And I will be so vain to 'say, it has lost nothing in my hands : Hut it always cost me so much trouble to heighten it for our theatre, (which is incomparably more... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808 - 450 lehte
...shall, to take the foundation of it, to build it up, and to make it proper for the English stage. And I will be so vain to say, it has lost nothing in my hands : But it always cost me so much trouble to heighten it for our theatre, (which is incomparably more... | |
 | Pedro Calderón de la Barca, Richard Chenevix Trench - 1856 - 268 lehte
...Astrologer, which appeared in 1668,* is drawn directly from Le Feint Astrologue of the younger Corneille, but not without comparison on the English poet's part...being only in ribaldry, double entendre, and that sort pf coarse impurity in which unhappily Dryden so much delighted ; a sort which fortunately in great... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench - 1856 - 244 lehte
...that same spirit of strange delusion which, in respect of the worth of his own and his contemporaries' dramatic compositions, seemed always to possess him,...worth retaining; its gains being only in ribaldry, double-entendre, and that sort of coarse impurity in which, unhappily, Dryden so much delight* See... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench - 1856 - 258 lehte
...that same spirit of strange delusion which, in respect of the worth of his own and his contemporaries' dramatic compositions, seemed always to possess him, ventures on the following assertion, " I will bo so vain to say, it has lost nothing in my hands" (p. 229). Never was poet more mistaken ; it has... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench - 1880 - 254 lehte
...estimate of the worth of his own and his contemporaries' dramatic efforts, seemed never to forsake him, ventures on the following assertion, ' I will...so vain to say, it has lost nothing in my hands.' Never was author more mistaken ; it has lost the elegance, the fancy, the whole ideal treatment, everything... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1883 - 490 lehte
...shall, to take the foundation of it, to build it up, and to make it proper for the English stage. And I will be so vain to say, it has lost nothing in my hands : But it always cost me so much trouble to heighten it for our theatre (which is incomparably more... | |
 | John Dryden - 1900 - 420 lehte
...shall, to take the foundation of it, to build it up, and to make it proper for the English stage. And I will be so vain to say, it has lost nothing in my hands : but it always 30 cost me so much trouble to heighten it for our theatre (which is incomparably more... | |
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