 | John Dryden - 1717 - 464 pagina’s
...they Ihould take care not to offend. But, as the civileft Man in the Company is commonly the Dulleft, fo thefe Authors, while they are afraid to make you laugh or cry, out of pure good Manners, make you fkep. They are fo careful not to exafperate a Critick, that they never leave him any Work ; fo bufie... | |
 | John Bell - 1776 - 382 pagina’s
...they mould take care not to oftendi But as the t-ivillefl: man in the company is commonly the dulleft, fo thefe authors, while they are afraid to make you...or for praife : for no part of a poem is worth our difcommending, where the whole is infipid ; as when we have once tafted of palled wine, we ftay not... | |
 | John Bell - 1780 - 382 pagina’s
...as the civileft man in the company is commonly the dulleft, fo thele authors, while they arcafraid to make you laugh or cry, out of pure good manners make you iieep. They are fo careful not to exafperate a critick thai they never leave him any work; fo bufy... | |
 | John Dryden - 1808 - 436 pagina’s
...take care not to offend. But as the civillest man in the company is commonly the dullest, so these authors, while they are afraid to make you laugh or cry, out of pure good manners, make you sleep. They are so careful not to exasperate a critic, that they never leave him any work ; so busy... | |
 | 1810 - 500 pagina’s
...given by our dramatists. " As the «'. vilest man in the company is commonly the dullest, so these authors, while they are afraid to make you laugh or cry, out of pur.? good manners, make you sleep." STRICTURES ON MOLIEHE. MONSIEUR SOR.BIEUE, speaking.like a true... | |
 | 1821 - 404 pagina’s
...should take care not to offend. But as the civilest man in the company is commonly the dullest, so these authors, while they are afraid to make you laugh or cry, out of pure good manners make you sleep. They are so careful not to exasperate a critick, that they never leave him any work ; so busy... | |
 | 1821 - 408 pagina’s
...should take care not to offend. But as the civilest man in the company is commonly the dullest, so these authors, while they are afraid to make you laugh or cry, out of pure good manners make you sleep. They are so careful not to exasperate a critick, that they never leave him any work ; so busy... | |
 | George Birkbeck Norman Hill - 1892 - 220 pagina’s
...take care not to offend. But as the civillest man in the company is commonly the dullest, so these authors, while they are afraid to make you laugh or cry, out of pure good manners make you sleep." Johnson, moreover, two or three years before Lessing wrote, had ridiculed the charge brought... | |
 | George Birkbeck Norman Hill - 1892 - 220 pagina’s
...take care not to offend. But as the civillest man in the company is commonly the dullest, so these authors, while they are afraid to make you laugh or cry, out of pure good manners make you sleep." Johnson, moreover, two or three years before Lessing wrote, had ridiculed the charge brought... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1883 - 456 pagina’s
...should take care not to offend But as the civilest man in the company is commonly the dullest, so these authors, while they are afraid to make you laugh or cry, out of pure good manners make you sleep. They are so careful not to exasperate a critic, that they never leave him any work ; so busy... | |
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... tis but necessary, when they cannot please, that they should take care not to offend. But as the civilest man in the company is commonly the dullest, so these authors, while they are afraid to make you laugh or cry, out of pure good manners make you... 
