 | 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, 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 - 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
...that same spirit of strange delusion which, in respect of the worth of his own and his cotemporaries' dramatic compositions, seemed always to possess him,...worth retaining ; its gains being only in ribaldry, double entendre, and that sort pf coarse impurity in which unhappily Dryden so much delighted ; a sort... | |
 | Pedro Calderón de la Barca - 1856 - 266 lehte
...that same spirit of strange delusion which, in respect of the worth of his own and his cotemporaries' 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 delighted; a sort... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Michael Werth Gelber - 2002 - 358 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 ahvayes cost me so much trouble to heighten it for our Theatre ... that when I had finish'd... | |
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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... 