 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - English literature - 1808 - 564 pages
...to swerve from the character, and obliged to say nothing but what is proper to it; but in the playes which have been wrote of late, there is no such thing...commonly a swearing, drinking, whoring ruffian for a lover, and impudent, ill-bred tomrig for a mistress, and these are the fine people of the play; and... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1826 - 532 pages
...cause with Crowne to write those Remarks, which were to demolish Settle's « Empress of Morocco.» which have been wrote of late, there is no such thing...commonly a swearing, drinking, whoring ruffian for a Jover, and impudent, ill-bred tomrig for a mistress, and these are the fine people of the play ; and... | |
 | Walter Scott - Chivalry - 1827 - 566 pages
...to swerve from the character, and obliged to say nothing but what is proper to it; but in the playes which have been wrote of late, there is no such thing...commonly a swearing, drinking, whoring ruffian for a lover, and impudent, ill-bred tomrig for a mistress, and these are the fine people of the play ; and... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart [prose, collected]) - 1827 - 564 pages
...to swerve from the character, and obliged to say nothing but what is proper to it; but in the playes which have been wrote of late, there is no such thing...commonly a swearing, drinking, whoring ruffian for a lover, and impudent, ill-bred tomrig for a mistress, and these are the fine people of the play ; and... | |
 | Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - Bibliography - 1828 - 550 pages
...is confined not to swerve from the character, and obliged to say nothing but what is proper to it: but in the plays which have been wrote of late, there...character, but the two chief persons are most commonly a rwearing, drinking, whoring ruffian for a lover, and an impudent, illbred tomrig for a mistress; and... | |
 | Walter Scott - English literature - 1834 - 516 pages
...swerve from the character, and obliged to say nothing but what Is proper to it¿ but In the playes which have been wrote of late, there is no such thing...commonly a swearing, drinking, whoring ruffian for a lover, and impudent, LU-bred tomrlg for a mistress, and these are the fine people of the play; and... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1834 - 534 pages
...swerve from the character, and obliged to say nothing but what is proper to it ; but in the playes which have been wrote of late, there is no such thing...commonly a swearing, drinking, whoring ruffian for a lover, and impudent, ill-bred tomrig for a mistress, and these are the fine people of the play ; and... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1848 - 484 pages
...to swerve from the character, and obliged to say nothing but what is proper to it; but in the playes which have been wrote of late, there is no such thing...commonly a swearing, drinking, whoring ruffian for a lover, and impudent, ill-bred tomrig for a mistress, and these are the fine people of the play; and... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1848 - 484 pages
...to say nothing but what is proper to It; but in the playes which have been wrote of late, there lane such thing as perfect character, but the two chief...commonly a swearing, drinking, whoring ruffian for a lover, and impudent, ill-bred tomrig for a mistress, and these are the fine people of the play; and... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 468 pages
...display, All keen, and ground ujon the edge of day." <H In the plays which have been wrote of late, the two chief persons are most commonly a swearing, drinking, whoring ruffian for a lover, and an impudent, ill-bred Toning for a mistress, and these are the fine people of the play:... | |
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But in the plays which have been wrote of late, there is no such thing as perfect character, but the two chief persons are most commonly a swearing, drinking, whoring ruffian for a 
