 | John Dryden - 1821 - 570 pàgines
...perplexed and obscure, that it would have required much more action to detail them more obnoxious. It succeeded as I wished ; the jest went round, and...was laughed at in his turn who began the frolic." intelligibly. Even the language has an abridged appearance, and favours the idea, that the tragic intrigue... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 296 pàgines
...sides, and little extravagances: to which, the wittier a man is, he is generally the more obnoxious. It succeeded as I wished: the jest went round, and...satire, to that of Juvenal ; and, I think, reasonably. Holiday ought not to have arraigned so great an author, for that which was his excellency and his merit:... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1826 - 532 pàgines
...sides, and little extravagancies ; to which, the wittier a man is, he is generally the more obnoxious. 'i It succeeded as I wished ; the jest went round,...he was laughed at in his turn who began the frolic. » so perplexed and obscure, that it would have required much more action to detail them intelligibly.... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1826 - 526 pàgines
...sides, and little extravagancies ; to which, the wittier a man is, he is generally the more obnoxious. It succeeded as I wished ; the jest went round, and...was laughed at in his turn who began the frolic.» so perplexed and obscure, that it would have required much more action to detail them intelligibly.... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1827 - 566 pàgines
...perplexed and obscure, that it would have required much more action to detail them more obnoxious. It succeeded as I wished; the jest went round, and he was laughed at in hit turn who began the frolic." intelligibly. Even the language has an abridged appearance, and favours... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart [prose, collected]) - 1827 - 564 pàgines
...required much more action to detail them more obnoxious. It succeeded as I wished ; the jest went ronnd, and he was laughed at in his turn who began the frolic." intelligibly. Even the language has an abridged appearance, and favours the idea, that the tragic intrigue... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1829 - 344 pàgines
...sides, and little extravagancies ; to which, the wittier a man is, he is generally the more obnoxious. It succeeded as I wished ; the jest went round, and...was laughed at in his turn who began the frolic." gradually, but perceptibly, to have declined in favour. Accordingly, Dryden did not trust to his powers... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1834 - 516 pàgines
...sides, and little extravagances ; to which, the wittier a man is, he is generally the more obnoxious. It succeeded as I wished; the jest went round, and he was laughed at in his turn who began tbs> frolic." his next play, but produced the " Marriage a-IaMode," a tragi-comedy, or rather a tragedy... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 472 pàgines
...blind-sides and little extravagances; to which the wittier a man is, he is generally the more obnoxious. It succeeded as I wished; the jest went round, and...he was laughed at in his turn who began the frolic. — DKYDEN. " 14th Dec., 1671. Went to see the Duke of Buckingham's ridiculous farce and rhapsody,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 468 pàgines
...blind-sides and little extravagances; to which the wittier a man is, he is generally the more obnoxious. It succeeded as I wished ; the jest went round, and...he was laughed at in his turn who began the frolic. — DKYDEN. " 14th Dec., 1671. Went to see the Duke of Buckingham's ridiculous farce and rhapsody,... | |
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... railed, I might have suffered for it justly ; but I managed my own work more happily, perhaps more dexterously. I avoided the mention of great crimes, and applied myself to the representing of blindsides, and little extravagancies ; to which, the... 
