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" He rather prays you will be pleased to see One such to-day, as other plays should be ; Where neither chorus wafts you o'er the seas, Nor creaking throne comes down the boys to please ; Nor nimble squib is seen to make afeard The gentlewomen ; nor roll'd... "
The Works of John Dryden: In Verse and Prose, with a Life - Page 239
by John Dryden, John Mitford - 1836
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The Cabinet: Or, Monthly Report of Polite Literature, Volume 4

1808 - 546 pages
...his Every Man in his Humour, " He rather prays, you would be pleas'd to see One such to-day, as other plays should be ; , Where neither chorus wafts you...Nor creaking throne comes down the boys to please," Mr. Malone would convert into " a clumsy sarcasm" oi\ Shakspeare's Henry V. To this Mr, Gilchrist very...
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The Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected ...

John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808 - 432 pages
...bring wounds to scars. He rather prays, you will be pleased to see One such to d«y, as other plavs should be; Where neither chorus wafts you o'er the seas, Nor creaking throne comes down, tin' boys to please, Nor nimble squib is seen, to make afeard The gentlewomen ; nor rolled butlet heard...
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The Modern British Drama: Comedies

Walter Scott - 1811 - 690 pages
...tiring-house bring wounds to scars. He rather prays, you will be pleased to see One such to-day, as other plays should be ; Where neither chorus wafts you o'er...seas, Nor creaking throne comes down, the boys to pi. Nor nimble squib is seen, to make afear'd The gentlewomen ; nor rolled bullet heard To say, it...
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The Works of Ben Jonson, Volume 1

Ben Jonson, William Gifford - 1816 - 538 pages
...not for feeble epithets linked together by hyphens, but for swelling, vaunting, bombast language. " Where neither chorus wafts you o'er the seas, Nor...creaking throne comes down the boys to please, • nor tempestuous drum." There was scarcely a play on the stage when Jonson first came to it, which did not...
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The Works of Ben Jonson, Volume 1

Ben Jonson, William Gifford - 1816 - 546 pages
...comes down the boys to please : Nor nimble sotuib. is seen to make afeard The gentlewomen ; nor roll'd 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...
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The Works of John Dryden,: Now First Collected in Eighteen Volumes

John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1821 - 442 pages
...tyring-house bring wounds to scars. He rather prays, you will be pleased to see One such to-day, as other plays should be ; Where neither chorus wafts you o'er...afeard The gentlewomen ; nor rolled bullet heard To Bay, it thunders ; nor tempestuous drum Rumbles, to tell you when the storm doth come ; But deeds,...
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Dramatic Table Talk: Or, Scenes, Situations, & Adventures, Serious ..., Volume 3

Richard Ryan - 1830 - 348 pages
...the Third, as will appear from the following lines of the prologue to " Every Man in his Humour." No creaking throne comes down, the boys to please; Nor...squib is seen, to make afeard The gentlewomen ; nor roll'd bullet heard To say, it thunders, nor tempestuous drum Rumble*, to tell you when the storm is...
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Dramatic table talk, or Scenes, situations & adventures, serious & comic, in ...

Richard Ryan - 1825 - 526 pages
...the Third, as will appear from the following lines of the prologue to " Every Man in his Humour." No creaking throne comes down, the boys to please ',...squib is seen, to make afeard The gentlewomen ; nor rull'd bullet heard To jay, it thunders, nor tempestuous drum Rumbles, to tell you when the storm is...
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Studies of Shakspere: Forming a Companion Volume to Every Edition of the Text

Charles Knight - 1849 - 574 pages
...such to-day, as other plays should he; Where neither choras wañs you o'er the scаs, Nor ereaking throne comes down the boys to please : Nor nimble squib is seen to make afeard The gentlewomen ; nor roll'd bullet heard, To say, it thunders : nor tempestuous drum Humbles, to tell you when the storm...
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Studies of Shakspere: Forming a Companion Volume to Every Edition of the Text

Charles Knight - 1849 - 582 pages
...plonked to see One such to-day, as other plays should be: Where neither chorus wafts you o'er the reas, Nor creaking throne comes down the boys to please: Nor nimble squib is seen to make afcard The gentlewomen; nor roll'd bullet heard, To say, it thunders : nor tempestuous drum Humbles,...
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