 | Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher - 1811 - 712 pàgines
...poet's business is certainly to please the audience. " Whether our English audience have been pleased hitherto with acorns, as he calls it, or with bread, is the next question ; that is, whether the means which Shakespeare and Fletcher have used in their plays to raise... | |
 | Ben Jonson, John Fletcher, Francis Beaumont - 1811 - 728 pàgines
...poet's business is certainly to please the audience. " Whether our English audience have been pleased hitherto with acorns, as he calls it, or with bread, is the next question ; that is, whether the means which Shakespeare and Fletcher have used in their plays to raise... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 420 pàgines
...poet's business is certainly to please the audience. " Whether our English audience have been pleased hitherto with acorns, as he calls it, or with bread, is the irext question ; that is, whether the means which Shakspeare and Fletcher have used, in their plays,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 486 pàgines
...poet's business is certainly to please the " audience. " WhetherourEnglishaudience have been pleased " hitherto with acorns, as he calls it, or with bread, " is the next question ; that is, whether the means " which Shakspeare and Fletcher have used, in their " plays,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1818 - 410 pàgines
...poet's business is certainly to please the audience. " Whether our English audience have been pleased " hitherto with acorns, as he calls it, or with bread, is " the next question ; that is, whether the means which " Shakespeare and Fletcher have used, in their plays, "... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 470 pàgines
...whether the means " which Shakspeare and Fletcher have used in " their plays^ to raise those passions before named, be " better applied to the ends by the Greek poets than " by them. And perhaps we shall not grant him " this wholly : let it be yielded that a writer is not " to run down... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 476 pàgines
...poet's business is certainly to please the audience. " Whether our English audience have been pleased hitherto with acorns, as he calls it, or with bread, is the next question ; that is, whether the means which Shakspeare and Fletcher have used, in their plays, to raise... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 466 pàgines
...business is certainly to please the " audience. tt Whether our English audience have been pleased " hitherto with acorns, as he calls it, or with bread, " is the next question ; that is, whether the means " which Shakspeare and Fletcher have used in " their plays, to... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1821 - 442 pàgines
...is, whether the means which Shakespeare and Fletcher have used in their plays to raise those passions before named, be better applied to the ends by the Greek poets than by them. And perhaps we shall not grant him this wholly : let it be yielded, that a writer is not to run down with... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1821 - 432 pàgines
...poet's business is certainly to please the audience. Whether our English audience have been pleased hitherto with acorns, as he calls it, or with bread, is the next question ; that is, whether the means which Shakespeare and Fletcher have used in their plays to raise... | |
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Whether our English audience have been pleased hitherto with, acorns, as he calls it, or with bread, is the next question ; that is, whether the means which Shakspeare and Fletcher have used in their plays to raise those passions before named, be better... 
