 | Beverley Ellison Warner - Drama - 1906 - 328 pages
...successful, when he engages his characters in reciprocations of smart- </ ness and contests of sarcasm; their jests are commonly gross, and their pleasantry licentious...from his clowns by any appearance of refined manners. Whether he represented the real conversation of his time is not easy to determine ; the reign of Elizabeth... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1908 - 254 pages
...successful, when he engages his characters in reciprocations of smartness and contests of sarcasm ; their jests are commonly gross, and their pleasantry licentious...from his clowns by any appearance of refined manners. Whether he. represented the real conversation of his time is not easy to determine ; the reign of Elizabeth... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - English prose literature - 1911 - 744 pages
...successful when he engages his characters in reciprocations of smartness and contests of sarcasm. Their jests are commonly gross, and their pleasantry licentious;...from his clowns by any appearance of refined manners. Whether he represented the real conversation of his tune is not easy to determine; the reign of Elizabeth... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - English prose literature - 1911 - 744 pages
...successful when he engages his characters in reciprocations of smartness and contests of sarcasm. Their jests are commonly gross, and their pleasantry licentious;...from his clowns by any appearance of refined manners. Whether he represented the real conversation of his time is not easy to determine; the reign of Elizabeth... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - English prose literature - 1911 - 754 pages
...successful when he engages his characters in reciprocations of smartness and contests of sarcasm. Their jests are commonly gross, and their pleasantry licentious;...from his clowns by any appearance of refined manners. Whether he represented the real conversation of his time is not easy to determine; the reign of Elizabeth... | |
 | Puerto Rico. Department of Education - [Special days - 1916 - 148 pages
...successful when he engages his characters in reciprocations of smartness and contests of sarcasms; their jests are commonly gross, and their pleasantry licentious;...from his clowns by any appearance of refined manners. Whether he represented the real conversation of his time is not easy to determine; the reign of Elizabeth... | |
 | Gustav Spiller - Logic - 1921 - 464 pages
...successful, when he engages his characters in reciprocations of smartness and contests of sarcasm ; their jests are commonly gross and their pleasantry licentious;...clowns by any appearance of refined manners." "In narration he affects a disproportionate pomp of diction and a wearisome train of circumlocution, and... | |
 | English philology - 1928 - 826 pages
...large-minded humanity and tolerance. He is equally at sea when he is criticising Shakespeare's art. "In tragedy his performance seems constantly to be worse, as his labour is more." I do not know if Professor Smith takes this nonsense seriously. The point is that Shakespeare was the... | |
 | David Nichol Smith - 1928 - 110 pages
...again we find that much of what he says is implicit in the older estimates. 'In tragedy', we read, 'his performance seems constantly to be worse, as his labour is more . . . whenever he solicits his invention, or strains his faculties, the offspring of his throes is... | |
 | Literature - 1909 - 498 pages
...successful, when he engages his characters in reciprocations of smartness and contests of sarcasm; their jests are commonly gross, and their pleasantry licentious;...from his clowns by any appearance of refined manners. Whether he represented the real conversation of his time is not easy to determine; the reign of Elisabeth... | |
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In his comic scenes he is seldom very successful when he engages his characters in reciprocations of smartness and contests of sarcasm; their jests are commonly gross and their pleasantry licentious; neither his gentlemen nor his ladies have much delicacy,... 
