 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 364 pages
...people ; but the poet's bufi" nefs is certainly to pleafe the au•" dience. ' ' •! « • . '.J >' *( Whether our Englifh audience have '* been pleafed...«* queftion ; that is, whether the means " which Shakefpeare and Fletcher have " ufed in their plays to raife thofe paf*/ fi.ons before named, be better... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1772 - 388 pages
...the means • *e which ",which Shakefpeare and **-;ufed'irr- their plays to raife thofe.paf" fions before named, -be better applied <* to the ends by the Greek poets than ^ bjrritpm. And perhaps we fha.U not ** grant hini this wholly .: let it be that a writer is not to... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 494 pages
...Athenians were a more judicious people ; but " the poet's bufinefs is certainly to pleafe the audience. " Whether our Englifh audience have been pleafed " hitherto...to the ends by the Greek poets than by them. " And perhaps we fhall not grant him this wholly : " let it be granted that a writer is not to run dowq "... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - English literature - 1787 - 498 pages
...Athenians were a more judicious people ; but '' the poet's bufinefs is certainly to pleafe the audience. " Whether our Englifh audience have been pleafed " hitherto...Fletcher have ufed in their •' plays to raife thofe paflions before named, be better " applied to the ends by the Greek poets than by them. " And perhaps... | |
 | English poets - 1790 - 344 pages
...bufinefs' is " certainly to pkafe the audience. " Whe<* Whether our Englifh audience hare been. <t pleafed hitherto with acorns, as he calls it* " or...raife "• thofe paffions before named, be better ap" plied to the ends by the Greek poets than by " them. And perhaps we mall not grant him. *' this... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 478 pages
...Athenians were a more judicious people ; but the " poet's bufmefs is certainly to pleafe the audience. " Whether our Englifh audience have been pleafed " hitherto..." to raife thofe paffions before named, be better ap" plied to the ends by the Greek poets than by them ? " And perhaps we fhall not grant him this wholly:... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1795 - 610 pages
...Athenians were " a more judicious people; but the poet's bu" finefs is certainly to pleafe the audience. " Whether our Englifh audience have been " pleafed hitherto...with acorns, as he calls it, " or with bread, is the nextqueftion ; that is, lc whether the means which Shakefpeare and •c Fletcher have ufed in their... | |
 | John Dryden, Edmond Malone - English prose literature - 1800 - 591 pages
...is, whether the means which Shakspeare and Fletcher have used in their plays to raise those passions before named, be better applied to the ends by the Greek poets than by them. And perhaps we shall not grant him this wholly : let it be yielded that a writer is not to run down with... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1800 - 714 pages
...whether the K means which Shakespeare and Fletcher ha\'« used in their plays to raise " those passions before named, be better applied to the ends by the Greek " poets than by them. And perhaps we shall not grant him this wholly : let "it be granted that a writer is not to run down with... | |
 | John Dryden, Edmond Malone - 1800 - 634 pages
...poet's business is certainly to please the audience. Whether our English audience have been pleased hitherto with acorns, as he calls it, or with bread, is the next question ; that is, whether the means which Shakspcarc and Fletcher have used in their plays to raise... | |
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Whether our English audience have been pleased hitherto with, acorns, as he calls it, or with bread, is the next question ; that is, whether the means which Shakspeare and Fletcher have used in their plays to raise those passions before named, be better... 
