 I confess my chief endeavours are to delight the age in which I live. If the humour of this be for low comedy, small accidents, and raillery, I will force my genius to obey it, though with more reputation I could write in verse.  Temple Bar - Sida 1761880Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | New and general biographical dictionary - 1761 - 466 sidor
...defence of the EfTay On dramatic poetry, prefixed to his Indian emperor : " I " know, fays he, I am not fitted by nature to write comedy ; , " I want that gaiety of humour, which is required in it. My " converfation is flow and dull ; my humour faturnine and " referved. In fhort, I am. none... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1813 - 560 sidor
...of the " Essay on Dramatic Poetry," prefixed to his Indian Emperor : " I know," says he, " I am not fitted by nature to write comedy ; I want that gaiety of humour which is required in it. My c'1nversation is slow and dull; my humour saturnine ai-1 reserved. In short, I am none of... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1813 - 562 sidor
...of the " Essay on Dramatic Poetry," prefixed to his Indian Emperor : " I know," says he, " I am not fitted by nature to write comedy ; I want that gaiety of humour which is required in it. My conversation is slow and dull; my humour saturnine and reserved. In short, I am none of those... | |
 | Wiltshire Stanton Austin, John Ralph - 1853 - 658 sidor
...he writes, " my chief endeavours are to delight the age in which I live. If the humour of this be in low comedy, small accidents, and raillery, I will...which is required to it ; my conversation is slow, dull, my humour saturnine and reserved. In short, I am none of those who endeavour to break jests in... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 468 sidor
...1854. 67 I confess my chief endeavours are to delight the age in which I live. If the humour of this be for low comedy, small accidents and raillery, I...reputation I could write in verse. I know I am not fitted by nature to write comedy; I want that gaiety of humour which is required to it. My conversation... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 472 sidor
...1804. 67 I confess my chief endeavours are to delight the age iu which I live. If the humour of this be for low comedy, small accidents and raillery, I...reputation I could write in verse. I know I am not fitted by nature to write comedy; I want that gaiety of humour which is required to it. My conversation... | |
 | 1868 - 690 sidor
...public. " For I confess my chief endeavours are to delight the age in which I live. If the humour of this be for low comedy, small accidents, and raillery,...so fitted by nature to write comedy : I want that gayety of humour which is requisite to it. My conversation is slow and dull, my humour saturnine and... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1898 - 396 sidor
...public. " For I confess my chief endeavours are to delight the age in which I live. If the humour of this be for low comedy, small accidents, and raillery,...so fitted by nature to write comedy ; I want that gayety of humour which is requisite to it. My conversation is slow and dull, my humour saturnine and... | |
 | JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL. A.M. - 1870 - 604 sidor
...public. " For I confess my chief endeavours are to delight the age in which I live. If the humour of this be for low comedy, small accidents, and raillery,...am not so fitted by nature to write comedy ; I want the gaiety of humour which is requisite to it. My conversation is slow and dull, my humour saturnine... | |
 | John Bascom - 1893 - 458 sidor
...says : " I confess my chief endeavors are to delight the age in which I live. If the humor of this be for low comedy, small accidents, and raillery, I will force my genius to obey it." If his genius, as he flatteringly terms it, had been greater, he could never have bowed it to this... | |
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