 | English drama - 1744 - 410 pages
...boldly, I dare fay Flow. To live by fin ! Thert There has been more by us in fome one play Laugh'd into wit and virtue, than hath been By twenty tedious lectures drawn from fin And foppifh humours ; hence the caufe doth rife, Men are not won by th'ears fo well as eyes. Firft... | |
 | Walter Scott - English drama - 1810 - 630 pages
...liberal His fully bears him. Boldly I dare say, There has been more by us in some one play, LaughM into wit and virtue, than hath been By twenty tedious lectures drawn from sin And foppish humours; hence the cause doth rise, Men are not won by the cars so well as eyes. First see what we... | |
 | Walter Scott - English drama - 1810 - 630 pages
...liberal His folly hears him. Boldly I dare say, There has been more by us in some one play, Laugh'd into wit and virtue, than hath been By twenty tedious lectures drawn trom sin And foppish humours ; hence the cause doth rise, Men are not won by the ears so well as eyesFirst... | |
 | 1825 - 364 pages
...the drama still continues to instruct and amuse us, -There have been more, in some one play, Laugh'd into wit and virtue, than hath been By twenty tedious lectures drawn from sin And foppish humours." Life of Dr. Dee, appended to Hearne's Joann. Glaston. Chron. •\ " Octavius. Yet all admire... | |
 | Books - 1822 - 386 pages
...liberal His folly bears him : boldly I dare say There has been more by us in some one play Laugh'd into wit and virtue, than hath been By twenty tedious lectures drawn from sin, And foppish humours ; hence the cause doth rise, Men are not won by th' ears so well as eyes. First, see what we... | |
 | Robert Dodsley, Isaac Reed, Octavius Gilchrist - English drama - 1825 - 430 pages
...liberal His folly bears him. Boldly, I dare say, There has been more by us in some one play Laugh'd into wit and virtue, than hath been By twenty tedious lectures drawn from sin And foppish humours : hence the cause doth rise, Men are not won by th' ears so well as eyes. First see what we... | |
 | Books - 1825 - 368 pages
...the drama still continues to instruct and amuse us, -There have been more, in some one play, Laugh'd into wit and virtue, than hath been By twenty tedious lectures drawn from sin And foppish humours." Life of Dr. Dee, appended to Hearne's Joann. Glaston. Chron. t " Octavius. Yet all admire... | |
 | John Timbs - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1829 - 354 pages
...liberal His folly bears him; boldly I dare say, There has been more by us in some one play Laugh'd into wit, and virtue, than hath been By twenty tedious lectures drawn from sin And foppish humours; hence the cause doth rise Men are not worn by the ears, as by the eyes. Rand. Musts' Looking-Glass.... | |
 | Charles Bowker Ash - 1831 - 648 pages
...ART OF ACTING; EPISTLE II. -Boldly I dare say There has been more by us, in some one play, Langh'd into wit and virtue, than hath been By twenty tedious lectures, drawn from sin, And foppish humours. RANDOLPH. ESSAY ON THE ART OF ACTING. Hard u the task of copying Nature well, There'! scarce... | |
 | Quotations, English - 1847 - 540 pages
...Only to cure them. RANDOLPH. 3. Boldly I dare say There has been more by us in some one play Laugh'd into wit and virtue, than hath been By twenty tedious lectures drawn from sin, And foppish humours ; hence the cause doth rise, Men are not won by th' ears, so well as eyes. RANDOLPH. 2* 4.... | |
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His folly bears him. Boldly, I dare say, There has been more by us in some one play Laugh'd into wit and virtue, than hath been By twenty tedious lectures drawn from sin And foppish humours : hence the cause doth rise, Men are not won by th 
