 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 364 pagina’s
...bufi" nefs is certainly to pleafe the au•" dience. ' ' •! « • . '.J >' *( Whether our Englifh audience have '* been pleafed hitherto with acorns,...«* queftion ; that is, whether the means " which Shakefpeare and Fletcher have " ufed in their plays to raife thofe paf*/ fi.ons before named, be better... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1772 - 388 pagina’s
...the means • *e which ",which Shakefpeare and **-;ufed'irr- their plays to raife thofe.paf" fions before named, -be better applied <* to the ends by the Greek poets than ^ bjrritpm. And perhaps we fha.U not ** grant hini this wholly .: let it be that a writer is not to... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 494 pagina’s
...judicious people ; but " the poet's bufinefs is certainly to pleafe the audience. " Whether our Englifh audience have been pleafed " hitherto with acorns,...to the ends by the Greek poets than by them. " And perhaps we fhall not grant him this wholly : " let it be granted that a writer is not to run dowq "... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 498 pagina’s
...judicious people ; but '' the poet's bufinefs is certainly to pleafe the audience. " Whether our Englifh audience have been pleafed " hitherto with acorns,...Fletcher have ufed in their •' plays to raife thofe paflions before named, be better " applied to the ends by the Greek poets than by them. " And perhaps... | |
 | English poets - 1790 - 344 pagina’s
...bufinefs' is " certainly to pkafe the audience. " Whe<* Whether our Englifh audience hare been. <t pleafed hitherto with acorns, as he calls it* " or...raife "• thofe paffions before named, be better ap" plied to the ends by the Greek poets than by " them. And perhaps we mall not grant him. *' this... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 478 pagina’s
...judicious people ; but the " poet's bufmefs is certainly to pleafe the audience. " Whether our Englifh audience have been pleafed " hitherto with acorns,..." to raife thofe paffions before named, be better ap" plied to the ends by the Greek poets than by them ? " And perhaps we fhall not grant him this wholly:... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1795 - 610 pagina’s
...judicious people; but the poet's bu" finefs is certainly to pleafe the audience. " Whether our Englifh audience have been " pleafed hitherto with acorns, as he calls it, " or with bread, is the nextqueftion ; that is, lc whether the means which Shakefpeare and •c Fletcher have ufed in their... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1800 - 714 pagina’s
...whether the K means which Shakespeare and Fletcher ha\'« 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 granted that a writer is not to run down with... | |
 | John Dryden, Edmond Malone - 1800 - 591 pagina’s
...is, 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 with... | |
 | John Dryden, Edmond Malone - 1800 - 634 pagina’s
...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 Shakspcarc and Fletcher have used in their plays to raise... | |
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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 those passions before named, be better... 
