 | Ben Jonson, John Fletcher, Francis Beaumont - English drama - 1811 - 728 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 Shakespeare and Fletcher have used in their plays to raise... | |
 | Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher - 1811 - 712 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 Shakespeare and Fletcher have used in their plays to raise... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 420 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 irext question ; that is, whether the means which Shakspeare and Fletcher have used, in their plays,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1816 - 486 pages
...poet's business is certainly to please the " audience. " WhetherourEnglishaudience 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,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1818 - 410 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 " Shakespeare and Fletcher have used, in their plays, "... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - English literature - 1820 - 470 pages
...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - English literature - 1820 - 476 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 Shakspeare and Fletcher have used, in their plays, to raise... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - English literature - 1820 - 466 pages
...business is certainly to please the " audience. tt 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... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - English literature - 1821 - 442 pages
...is, whether the means which Shakespeare 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... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1821 - 432 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 Shakespeare and Fletcher have used in their plays to raise... | |
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