 ... clash of wit, in which nothing flows necessarily from the occasion, or is dictated by nature. The characters both of men and women are either fictitious and artificial, as those of Heartwell and the Ladies; or easy and common, as Wittol a tame idiot,...  The lives of the English poets - Pàgina 184per Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1823Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | John Matthews Manly - 1926 - 928 pàgines
...the Ladies ; or easy and common, as Wittol a tame idiot, Bluff a swaggering coward, and Fondlewife ut when he saw the wonder of the hilt, How curiously...chased, he smote His palms together, and he cried l Next year he gave another specimen of his abilities in "The Double Dealer," which was not received... | |
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