Dramatic EssaysJ.M. Dent & sons, Limited, 1912 - 299 sivua |
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Sivu 65
... pleased to own an error . Yet since he has given the Errata , I wish he would have enlarged them only a few sheets more , and then he would have spared me the labour of an answer : for this cursed printer is so given to mistakes , that ...
... pleased to own an error . Yet since he has given the Errata , I wish he would have enlarged them only a few sheets more , and then he would have spared me the labour of an answer : for this cursed printer is so given to mistakes , that ...
Sivu 67
... pleased with good plays , or that the plays which please them are always good . The humour of the people is now for comedy ; therefore , in hope to please them , I write comedies rather than serious plays ; and so far their taste ...
... pleased with good plays , or that the plays which please them are always good . The humour of the people is now for comedy ; therefore , in hope to please them , I write comedies rather than serious plays ; and so far their taste ...
Sivu 69
... pleased to think it . But it is very plain that he has mistaken the foundation for that which is built upon it , though not immediately : for the direct and immediate consequence is this ; if nature be to be imitated , then there is a ...
... pleased to think it . But it is very plain that he has mistaken the foundation for that which is built upon it , though not immediately : for the direct and immediate consequence is this ; if nature be to be imitated , then there is a ...
Sivu 70
... pleased to charge me with being magisterial , as he has done in many other places of his Preface . Therefore in vindica- tion of myself , I must crave leave to say , that my whole discourse was sceptical , according to that way of ...
... pleased to charge me with being magisterial , as he has done in many other places of his Preface . Therefore in vindica- tion of myself , I must crave leave to say , that my whole discourse was sceptical , according to that way of ...
Sivu 72
... pleased to think them , ever asserted that they could make one place two ; but they might hope , by the good leave of this author , that the change of a scene might lead the imagina- tion to suppose the place altered : So that he cannot ...
... pleased to think them , ever asserted that they could make one place two ; but they might hope , by the good leave of this author , that the change of a scene might lead the imagina- tion to suppose the place altered : So that he cannot ...
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