 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - English literature - 1808 - 432 pages
...doth come 5 But deeds, and language, such as men do use. And persons, such as comedy would chuse ; When she would shew an image of the times, And sport...with human follies, not with crimes ; Except we make them such, by loving still Our popular errors, as you'll all confess, By laughing at them, they deserve... | |
 | Walter Scott - English drama - 1811 - 690 pages
...To say, it thunders ; nor tempestuous drum Rumbles, to tell you when the storm doth come; But deeds, and language, such as men do use, And persons, such...such, by loving still Our popular errors, when we know they're ill. I mean such errors as you'll all confess, By laughing at them, they dtterve no less :... | |
 | British drama - 1811 - 696 pages
...To say, it thunders ; nor tempestuous drum Rumbles, to tell you when the storm doth come; But deeds, and language, such as men do use, And persons, such...such, by loving still Our popular errors, when we know they're ill. I mean such errors as you'll all confess, By laughing at them, they deserve no less: Which,... | |
 | Walter Scott - English drama - 1811 - 698 pages
...To say, it thunders ; nor tempestuous drum Rumbles, to tell you when the storm doth come) But deeds, and language, such as men do use, And persons, such...such, by loving still Our popular errors, when we know they're ill. I mean such errors as you'll all confess, By laughing at them, they deserve no lees :... | |
 | Ben Jonson, John Fletcher, Francis Beaumont - English drama - 1811 - 780 pages
...come ; But deeds, and language, such as men do use, And persons, such as Comedy would chuse, VV hen she would shew an image of the times, And sport with...follies, not with crimes.' Except we make 'em such, by ¡ovinpr still Our popular erro«, when we know th' are ill. 1 mean such errors as you'll all confess,... | |
 | Ben Jonson, William Gifford - Dramatists, English - 1816 - 546 pages
...To say, it thunders ; nor tempestuous drum Rumbles, to tell you when the storm doth com$ But deeds, and language, such as men do use/ And persons, such...she would shew an image of the times, And sport with human^foUies, not with primes.1 Prologue, which was probably written in 1596, (see p. xxviii.) does... | |
 | Ben Jonson, William Gifford - Dramatists, English - 1816 - 538 pages
...say, it thunders ; nor tempestuous drum Rumbles, to tell you when the storm doth come ; But deeds, and language, such as men do use, And persons, such as comedy would choose, When she would sheto an image of the times, And sport with human follies, not with crimes? * This Prologue, which... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - English literature - 1821 - 442 pages
...storm doth come ; But deeds, and language, such as men do use, And persons, such as comedy would chusc, When she would shew an image of the times, And sport...with human follies, not with crimes ; Except we make them such, by loving still Our popular errors, as jwu'll all confess, By laughing at them, they deserve... | |
 | 1825 - 338 pages
...XIV. SATURDAY, APRIL 2, 1825. VOL. I. OF •wxx.x.IAin OXBEH.BY, A person such as comedy would chuse, When she would shew an image of the times, And sport with human follies — not with crimes. THERE is a feeling connected with death, that would fain treat this memoir with serious attention ;... | |
 | John Dryden, John Mitford - English literature - 1836 - 488 pages
...say, it thunders ; nor tempestuous drum Rumbles, to tell you when the storm doth come ; But deeds, and language, such as men do use, And persons, such as comedy would choose, When she would show an image of the times, And sport with human follies, not with crimes; Except we make them such,... | |
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But deeds and language such as men do use, And persons such as Comedy would choose, When she would show an image of the times. And sport with human follies, not with crimes; Except we make 'em such, by loving still Our popular errors, when we know they're... 
