 | Abraham Mills - English literature - 1858 - 608 pages
...the heart : Cold approbation gave the lingering bays, For those who durst not censure, scarce could praise. A mortal born, he met the general doom, But...The wits of Charles found easier ways to fame, Nor wished for Jonson's art, or Shakspeare's flame ; Themselves they studied, as they felt they writ, Intrigue... | |
 | Richard Herne Shepherd - Literature and morals - 1862 - 36 pages
...dramatists as champagne is from port. I think we English have a preference for the Lusitanian grape. " The wits of Charles found easier ways to fame, Nor wish'd for Jonson's art, or Shakespeare's flame. Themselves they studied ; as they felt, they writ : Intrigue was plot, obscenity... | |
 | George Jacob Holyoake - Debates and debating - 1863 - 254 pages
...the heart. Cold approbation gave the lingering bays, 'For those who durst not censure, scarce could praise; A mortal born, he met the general doom, But left, like Egypt's kings, a lasting tomb. * K. lloyiiard, II. D., 1750. The wits of Charles found easier ways to fame, Nor wished for Jonsou's... | |
 | 1866 - 398 pages
...the heart; Cold approbation gave the lingering bays, For those who durst not censure, scarce could praise. A mortal born, he met the general doom, But left, like Egypt's kings, a lasting tomb. The coxcomb felt a lash in every word, And fools, hung out, their brother fools deterr'd. His comic humour... | |
 | Mark Lemon - London (England) - 1867 - 364 pages
...masks. For " The wits of Charles found easier way to fame, Nor wished for Jonson's art nor Shakespeare's flame; Themselves they studied, as they felt they writ— Intrigue was plot, obscenity was wit." Women's parts had hitherto been played only by men — Kynaston was very celebrated — but actresses... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1868 - 280 pages
...the heart : Cold Approbation gave the lingering bays, For those who durst not censure, scarce could praise; A mortal born, he met the general doom, But...flame. Themselves they studied ; as they felt, they \vrit : Intrigue was plot, obscenity was wit. 20 Vice always found a sympathetic friend ; They pleased... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1868 - 578 pages
...lingering bays; For those who durst not censure scarce could praise. A mortal born, he met the gen'ral doom, But left, like Egypt's kings, a lasting tomb....easier ways to fame, Nor wish'd for Jonson's art, or Shakepeare's fame. Themselves they studied; as they felt, they STUDIES OF SHAKSPERE. Vice always found... | |
 | 1868 - 416 pages
...pacem adpellant." Johnson says of the wits of Charles the Second's age -. "Themselves they itudied ; as they felt they writ; Intrigue was plot, obscenity...wit. Vice always found a sympathetic friend : They pleased their age and did not aim to mend." as it is. Like other Hanoverians, I have read an article... | |
 | Great Britain - 1868 - 978 pages
...assayed the heart ; Cold approbation gave the lingering bays, For they who durst not censure scarce could praise. A mortal born, he met the general doom ; But left, like Egypt's kings, a lasting tomb." Dr. Samuel Johnson. " The art of Jonson was not conßned to the cold observations of the unities of... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1868 - 570 pages
...praise. A mortal born, he met the gen'ral doom, But left, like Egypt's kings, a lasting tomb. " The witg of Charles found easier ways to fame, Nor wish'd for Jonson's art, or Shakspeare's fame. Themselves they studied; aa they felt, they writ : Intrigue was plot, obscenity was wit. Vice... | |
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The wits of Charles found easier ways to fame, Nor wish'd for Jonson's art, or Shakspeare's flame. Themselves they studied; as they felt, they writ: Intrigue was plot, obscenity was wit. 
