 It is therefore my part to make it clear, that the language, wit, and conversation of our age, are improved and refined above the last ; and then it will not be difficult to infer, that our plays have received some part of those advantages.  The Works of John Dryden: Dramatic works - Página 227de John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1883Visualização completa - Sobre este livro
 | John Dryden, Edmond Malone - 1800 - 591 páginas
...equality of wit in the writers,) has the advantage of 'knowing more and better than the former. And this I think is the state of the question in dispute. It...part to make it clear, that the language, wit, and cottrersation of our age, are improved and refined above the last ; and then it will not be difficult... | |
 | John Dryden, Edmond Malone - 1800 - 634 páginas
...equality of wit in the writers,) has the advantage of knowing more and better than the former.- And this I think is the state of the question in dispute. It is therefore my part to tnake it cleai 1 , that the languoge, wit^ and con\/ Versation of our age, are improved and refined... | |
 | John Wilson - 1846 - 360 páginas
...defence—an " Essay on the Dramatic Poetry of the Last Age." In it he repeats the senseless assertion, " that the language, wit, and conversation of our age are improved and refined above the last;" and he takes care to include among the writers of the last age, Shakspeare, Fletcher, and Jonson. " In... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1866 - 442 páginas
...maîtresse sur le théâtre ; son Berger « commet deux fois la même brutalité 1. » Nulle part 1. The language, wit, and conversation of our age are improved and refined above the last.... Let us consider in what the refinement of a language principally consista : That is either in rejecting... | |
 | Hippolyte Adolphe Taine - 1871 - 570 páginas
...to the new public, which paid and applauded him. 1 Heroic stama3 to the memory of Oliver Cromwell. ' The language, wit, and conversation of our age, are improved and refined above the last. . . . Let us consider in what the refinement of a language principally consists ; that is, " either... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1871 - 564 páginas
...the new public, which paid and applauded him. 1 Heroic stcuuat to the memory of Oliver Cromwell. ' The language, wit, and conversation of our age, are improved and refined above the last. . . . Let us consider in what the refinement of a language principally consists ; that is, " either... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1871 - 572 páginas
...public, which paid and kpplauded him. 1 Heroic stanzas to the memory of Oliver Cromwell. ' The langnnge, wit, and conversation of our age, are improved and refined above the last. . . . Let us consider in what the refinement of a language principally consists ; that is, " either... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1871 - 586 páginas
...truth, accommodating himself as well as he could to the new public, which paid and applauded him. _^_ ' The language, wit, and conversation of our age, are improved and refined abore the last. . . . Let us consider in what the refinement of a language principally consists ; that... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1878 - 518 páginas
...Stutalität.**) *) Defence of the Epilogue to the Conquest of Granada. — Ground» of Criticism in tragedy. **) The language, wit, and conversation of our age are improved and refined above the last .... Let us consider in what the refinement of a language principally consists: That is either in rejecting... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1883 - 494 páginas
...equality of wit in the writers) has the advantage of knowing more and better than the former. And this, I think, is the state of the question in dispute. It...improved and refined above the last ; and then it mil not be difficult to infer, that our plays have received some part of those advantages. In the first... | |
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