 | John Dryden - 1800 - 624 lehte
...overflows us : but a long sober shower gives them leisure to run out as they came in, without troubling the ordinary current. As for comedy, repartee is one of its chiefest graces ; ' Formerly an hour-glass was fixed on the pulpit in alt our churches. the greatest pleasure of the... | |
 | John Dryden, Edmond Malone - 1800 - 591 lehte
...overflows us : but a long sober shower gives them leisure to run out as they came in, without troubling the ordinary current. As for comedy, repartee is one of its chiefest graces ; 5 Formerly an hour-glass was fixed on the pulpit in all our churches, the greatest pleasure of the... | |
 | Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher - 1811 - 712 lehte
...volume of the folio edition of his works) in a comparison of the French and English comedy, says, " As for comedy, repartee is one of its chiefest graces. The greatest pleasure of an audience is a chase of wit kept up on both sides, and swiftly managed : And this our forefathers... | |
 | Ben Jonson, John Fletcher, Francis Beaumont - 1811 - 728 lehte
...volume of the folio edition of his works) in a comparison of the French and English comedy, says, " As for comedy, repartee is one of its chiefest graces. The greatest pleasure of an audience is a chase of wit kept up on both sides, and swiftly managed : And this our forefathers... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford - 1819 - 410 lehte
...overflows us : but a long sober shower gives them leisure to run out as they came in, without troubling the ordinary current. As for comedy, repartee is one...graces ; the greatest pleasure of the audience is a chacc of wit, kept up on both sides, and swiftly manag-ed.'* Nothing can surpass the acuteness of his... | |
 | 1821 - 408 lehte
...overflows us : but a long sober shower gives them leisure to run out as they came in, without troubling the ordinary current. As for comedy, repartee is one...pleasure of the audience is a chase of wit, kept up on both sides, and swiftly managed. And this our forefathers, if not we, have had in Fletcher's plays,... | |
 | 1821 - 404 lehte
...overflows us : but a long sober shower gives them leisure to run out as they came in, without troubling the ordinary current. As for comedy, repartee is one...pleasure of the audience is a chase of wit, kept up on both sides, and swiftly managed. And this our forefathers, if not we, have had in Fletcher's plays,... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1821 - 442 lehte
...overflows us : But a long sober shower gives them leisure to run out as they came in, without troubling the ordinary current. As for comedy, repartee is one of its chiefest graces ; the greatest plea* The custom of placing an hour-glass before the clergyman was then common in England. It is still... | |
 | John Dryden - 1859 - 482 lehte
...takcanotter flats icttfi Mm. him without interruption. Grief and passioa are like floods raised in liille hrooks hy a sudden rain ; they are quickly up, and...in, without trouhling the ordinary current. As for com* edy, repartee is one of its chiefest graces ; the greatest pleasure of the audience is a chase... | |
 | John Dryden - 1889 - 208 lehte
...overflows us : but a long sober shower gives them leisure to run out as they came in, without troubling the ordinary current. As for comedy, repartee is one of its chiefest graces ; the greatest 10 pleasure of the audience is a chace of wit, kept up — on both sides, and swiftly managed. And... | |
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They are quickly up, and if the concernment be poured unexpectedly in upon us, it overflows us. But a long sober shower gives them leisure to run out as they came in, without troubling the ordinary current. As for comedy, repartee is one of its chiefest... 
