 | John Dryden - 1854 - 324 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 he was laughed at in his turn who began the frolick.' — Discourse on Satire. * Lord Howard of Esrick, who seems to have united the characters... | |
 | 1855 - 834 pàgines
...blind-sides and little extravagancies : to which the wittier a rann K ho is uenerally the more obnoxious. It succeeded as I wished : the jest went round, and...was laughed at in his turn, who began the frolic. — DRTDES.] [J Shadwcll was very fat — " more fat than bard beseem» ;" and hence the ludicrous... | |
 | Henry Reed - 1857 - 424 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 : — " Some of their chiefs were princes of the land : In the first rank of these did Zimri stand... | |
 | John Dryden - 1867 - 556 pàgines
...a man is, he is generally the more obnoxious. It succeeded as I wished ; th» jest wont round, aud dress' . - BO great an author, for that which was his excellency and his merit : or if he did, on such a palpable... | |
 | Walter Scott, J. M. W. (Joseph Mallord William) Turner - 1869 - 486 pàgines
...sides, and little extravagances; to which', the wittieraman 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." his next play, but produced the " Marriage a-laMode," a tragi-comedy, or rather a tragedy and comedy,... | |
 | Walter Thornbury - 1870 - 344 pàgines
...said, " but ridiculous enough. He for whom it was intended was too witty to resent it as an injury. It succeeded as I wished ; the jest went round, and he was laughed at in his turn who first began the frolic." Seven years after the duke died of a cold, caught out hunting. So perished... | |
 | John Dryden - 1897 - 764 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 hatched at in his turn, who began the frolic." Symc .similar touches are to be found in Pope's equally... | |
 | John Dryden - 1882 - 320 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...preferred the manner of Horace, and of your lordship, in the kind satire, to that of Juvenal ; and I think, reasonably. Holiday ought not to have arraigned... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1882 - 480 pàgines
...blind-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." parody. But the charm began to dissolve ; and from the time of that representation, they seem gradually,... | |
 | John Dryden - 1887 - 420 pàgines
...blindsides, 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...preferred the manner of Horace, and of your Lordship, in tli is kind of satire, to that of Juvenal, and, I think, reasonably. Holyday ought not to have arraigned... | |
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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... 
