 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...  Elizabethan Literature - Page 225by John Mackinnon Robertson - 1914 - 256 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808 - 432 pages
...butlet heard To say, it thunders ; nor tempestuous drum Humbles, to telt you when the storm doth come 5 But 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, not with crimes ;... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1811 - 690 pages
...bullet heard 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 shew an image of the times, And sport with human follies, not with crimes; Except we make 'em such,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1811 - 698 pages
...bullet heard 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 shew an image of the times, And sport with human follies, not with crimes; Except we make 'em such,... | |
 | British drama - 1811 - 696 pages
...bullet heard 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 shew an image of the times, And sport with human follies, not with crimes; Except we make 'em such,... | |
 | Ben Jonson, John Fletcher, Francis Beaumont - 1811 - 780 pages
...bullet heard 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 chuse, VV hen she would shew an image of the times, And sport with human follies, not with crimes.'... | |
 | Ben Jonson, William Gifford - 1816 - 546 pages
...bullet heard To say, it thunders ; nor tempestuous drum Rumbles, to tell you when the storm doth com$ But 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^foUies, not with primes.1 Prologue, which was probably... | |
 | 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 - 442 pages
...bullet heard To Bay, 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 chusc, When she would shew an image of the times, And sport with human follies, not with crimes ; Except... | |
 | 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, not with crimes; Except we make them such, by loving still Our popular errors, as you'll all confess, By laughing at... | |
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