 | John Dryden - 1800 - 624 pagina’s
...am not so fitted by nature to write comedy : I want that gaiety of humour which is required to it. My conversation is slow and dull, my humour saturnine and reserved : in short, I am none of those who endeavour to break jests in company, or make repartees. So that those who decry my comedies, do me... | |
 | John Dryden, Edmond Malone - 1800 - 591 pagina’s
...am not so fitted by nature to write comedy : I want that gaiety of humour which is required to it. My conversation is slow and dull, my humour saturnine and reserved : in short, I am none of those who endeavour to break jests in company, or make repartees. So that those who decry my comedies, do me... | |
 | 1801 - 416 pagina’s
...says he, " I want " that gaiety of humour which is required in it; my " conversation isslowanddull, my humour saturnine " and reserved. In short, I am none of those who " endeavour to break jests in company, and mjke " repartees; so that those who decry my Comedies "... | |
 | Joseph Warton - 1806 - 440 pagina’s
...descriptions of his mule, his dinner, • * " My conversation (says Dryden, very entertainingly> of himself) is slow and dull, my humour saturnine and reserved. In short, I am none of those who endeavour to break jests in company, or make repartees." Preface to his Indian Emperor. dinner, his... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1807 - 538 pagina’s
...orators. Vaucanson was eaid to be as much a machine as any he had made. Dryden says of himself, — " My conversation is slow and dull, my humour saturnine and reserved. In short, I am none of those who endeavour to break jests in company, or make repartees." VIDA. WHAT a consolation for an aged parent... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808 - 486 pagina’s
...am not so fitted by nature to write comedy : I want that gaiety of humour which is required to it. My conversation is slow and dull ; my humour saturnine and reserved : In short, I am none of those who endeavour to break jests in company, or make repartees. So that those, who decry my comedies, do me... | |
 | Thomas Mortimer - 1808 - 496 pagina’s
...not born to write comedy j " For," says he, " I want that gaiety of hutnour which is required in it ; my conversation is slow and dull, my humour saturnine and reserved; In short, I am none of those who endeavour to break jests in company, and endeavour to make rapartees ; sa that those who decry my comedies... | |
 | David Erskine Baker - 1812 - 472 pagina’s
...Poetry : " I want -' (says he) that gaiety of humour " that is required in it. My con',' versation is slow and dull, my '* humour saturnine and reserved. " In short, I am none of those who " endeavour to break jests in com" pany, and make repartees ; so " that those who decry my comef dies,... | |
 | David Erskine Baker - 1812 - 476 pagina’s
...Dramatic Poetry : ." I want " (says he) that gaiety of humour " that is required in it. My con' versation is slow and dull, my ' humour saturnine and reserved. ' In short, I am none of those who endeavour to break jests in company, and make repartees ; so . that those who decry my comedies, do... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1813 - 562 pagina’s
..." I am not fitted by nature to write comedy ; I want that gaiety of humour which is required in it. My conversation is slow and dull; my humour saturnine and reserved. In short, I am none of those who endeavour to break jests in company, or to make repartees. So that those who decry my comedies, do... | |
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My conversation is slow and dull; my humour saturnine and reserved: In short, I am none of those who endeavour to break jests in company, or make repartees. 
