| Abby Willis Howes - 1903 - 238 sivua
...he nothing meant; Hanging supposes human soul and reason, This animal's below committing treason ; " The height of his ambition is, we know, But to be...appear, And a month's harvest keeps him all the year." For skilful delineation of character and situation, and for keenness of attack on individuals, this... | |
| John Dryden - 1904 - 762 sivua
...vent his spite, Those are the only serpents he can write ; The height of his ambition is, we know, Bnt to be master of a puppet-show ; On that one stage his works may yet appear, 455 And a month's harvest keeps him all the year. Now stop your noses, readers, all and some, For here's... | |
| John Dryden - 1905 - 196 sivua
...twenty letters to abuse, Which if he jumbles to one line of sense, Indict him of a capital offence. 450 In fire-works give him leave to vent his spite, Those...appear, And a month's harvest keeps him all the year. Now stop your noses, readers, all and some, For here-s a tun of midnight work to come, Og from a treason-tavern... | |
| Thomas Humphry Ward - 1905 - 524 sivua
...to abuse, Which if he jumbles to one line of sense, Indict him of a capital offence. In fire-works2 give him leave to vent his spite, Those are the only...to be master of a puppet-show ' ; On that one stage hisfworks may yet appear, And a month's harvest keeps him all the year Now stop your noses, readers,... | |
| John Dryden - 1909 - 1112 sivua
...twenty letters to abuse, Which if he jumbles to one line of sense, Indict him of a capital offense. 450 In fireworks give him leave to vent his spite, Those...of his ambition is, we know, But to be master of a puppet show: On that one stage his works may yet appear, And a month's harvest keeps him all the year.... | |
| John Dryden - 1909 - 1112 sivua
...only serpents he can write; The height of his ambition is, we know, But to be master of a puppet show: On that one stage his works may yet appear, And a month's harvest keeps him all the year. «— Now stop your noses, readers, all and some, For here 'sa tun of midnight work to come, Og, from... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1909 - 566 sivua
...very popular, but its success was due to spectacular display. See Scott's Dryden, i. 216 ; p. 226, ' The height of his ambition is, we know, but to be master of a puppet-show.' Little Flannigan may have appeared in this play, or, as Mr. Austin Dobson suggests, have been employed... | |
| Thomas Humphry Ward - 1914 - 526 sivua
...to abuse, Which if he jumbles to one line of sense, Indict him of a capital offence. In fire-works2 give him leave to vent his spite, Those are the only...appear, And a month's harvest keeps him all the year Now stop your noses, readers, all and some. For here 'sa tun of midnight work to come, Og4 from a treason-tavern... | |
| Edmund Gosse - 1917 - 440 sivua
...into contempt. Of Settle's fifteen plays, the latest was brought out in 1710. Dryden said of him : ' ' The height of his ambition is, we know, But to be master of a puppet-show." Settle fell lower even than this, for he became a mechanic at a puppet-show, and his last public appearances... | |
| John Dryden - 1923 - 196 sivua
...twenty letters to abuse, Which if he jumbles to one line of sense, Indict him of a capital offence. 450 In fire-works give him leave to vent his spite, Those are the only serpeuts he can write ; The height of his ambition is, we know, But to be master of a puppet-show ;... | |
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