 | John Dryden - 1800 - 606 pages
...publick entertainment ; and became part of the gardens belonging to Arlington-House. See p. 400, n. 4. and the readiest to help the young and deserving....comedies are horribly full of double entendre, yet 'twas owing to a false complaisance for a dissolute age, He was in company the modestest man that ever... | |
 | John Dryden, Edmond Malone - English prose literature - 1800 - 601 pages
...peruke was probably so called from the name of some Frenchman, by whom it was made : so, at a subseand the readiest to help the young and deserving. Though...comedies are horribly full of double entendre, yet 'twas owing to a false complaisance for a dissolute age. He was in company the modestest man that ever... | |
 | John Dryden - 1800 - 622 pages
...peruke was probably so called from the name of tome Frenchman, by whom it was made : so, at a subso and the, readiest to help the young and deserving. Though his comedies arc horribly full of double entendre, yet 'twas owing to a false complaisance for a dissolute age.... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - English literature - 1808 - 564 pages
...Posterity is absolutely mistaken as to that great man : though forced to be a satirist, he was the mildest creature breathing, and the readiest to help...comedies are horribly full of double entendre, yet 'twas owing to a false complaisance. He was, in company, the modestest man that ever conversed." V-OL,... | |
 | John Watkins - Authors, English - 1808 - 568 pages
...names from their respective makers." Ihid. i man; man : though forced to be a satirist, he was the mildest creature breathing, and the readiest to help the young and deserving. Though his comedies are terribly full of double entendre, yet it was owing to a false complaisance for a dissolute age. He... | |
 | 1811 - 450 pages
...Posterity is absolutely mistaken as tp that great man ; though forced to be a satyrist, he was the mildest creature breathing, and the readiest to help...deserving; though his comedies are horribly full of double entendres, yet it was owing to a false complaisance for a dissolute age. He was in company the modestest... | |
 | David Erskine Baker - English drama - 1812 - 482 pages
...Posterity is absoiutely mistaken " as to that great man. Though " forced to be a satirist, he was " the mildest creature breathing, ,"and the readiest to...false compliance for a " dissolute age : he was in corn" pany the modestest man that " ever conversed." He had, however, as Dr. Johnson has observed,... | |
 | David Erskine Baker - Dramatists, English - 1812 - 472 pages
..."as to that great man. Though "forced to be a satirist, he was " the mildest creature breathing, 1 " and the readiest to help the " young and deserving. Though " his comedies are horribly full of " douhle entendre, yet it was ow" ing to a false compliance for a " dissolute age : he was in com"... | |
 | Sir Egerton Brydges - Bibliography - 1815 - 498 pages
...Posterity is absolutely mistaken' as to that great man ; though forced to be a satirist, be was the mildest creature breathing, and the readiest to help...deserving: though his comedies are horribly full of double entendres, yet it was owing to a false complaisance for a dissolute age. He was in company the modestest... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford - English poetry - 1819 - 410 pages
...for 1745) is absolutely mistaken as to that great man : though forced to be a satyrist, he was the mildest creature breathing, and the readiest to help...comedies are horribly full of double entendre, yet 'twas owing to a false complaisance. He was, in company, the modestest man that ever conversed.' This... | |
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Posterity is absolutely mistaken as to that great man : though forced to be a satirist, he was the mildest creature breathing, and the readiest to help the young and deserving. Though his comedies are horribly full of double entendre, yet 'twas owing... 
