 | Hartley Coleridge - 1836 - 774 pagina’s
...of the World " * so perfect a model of acuminated satire, * "But little of it was prepared for that general taste which seems now to be predominant in the palates of our audience. Those characters which are meant to be ridiculed in most of our comedies, are of fools so gross, that... | |
 | William Wycherley, Leigh Hunt - 1840 - 784 pagina’s
...succeeded on the stage, was almost beyond my expectation ; for but little of it was prepared for that general taste which seems now to be predominant in the palates of our audience. Those characters which are meant to be ridiculed in most of our comedies, are of fools so gross, that,... | |
 | William Wycherley, Leigh Hunt - 1840 - 782 pagina’s
...succeeded on the stage, was almost beyond my expectation ; for but little of it was prepared for that gcnen taste which seems now to be predominant in the palates of our audience. Those characters which are meant to be ridiculed in most of our comedies, are of fools so gross, that,... | |
 | William Wycherley - 1875 - 770 pagina’s
...succeeded on the stage, was almost beyond my expectation ; for but little of it was prepared for that general taste which seems now to be predominant in the palates of our audience. Those characters which are meant to bo ridiculed in most of our comedies, are of fools но gross,... | |
 | WILLIAM CONGREVE - 1887 - 556 pagina’s
...succeeded on the stage, was almost beyond my expectation ; for but little of it was prepared for that general taste which seems now to be predominant in the palates of our audience. Those characters which are meant to be ridiculed in most of our comedies, are of fools so gross, that,... | |
 | Edmund Gosse - 1888 - 220 pagina’s
...succeeded on the stage was almost beyond my expectation, for but little of it was prepared for that general taste which seems now to be predominant in the palates of our audience." But the whole tone of the dedication belies these words, and shows the poet anxious to defend himself... | |
 | William Congreve - 1888 - 540 pagina’s
...succeeded on the stage, was almost beyond my expectation ; for but little of it was prepared for that general taste which seems now to be predominant in the palates of our audience. Those characters which are meant to be ridiculed in most of our comedies, are of fools so gross, that,... | |
 | William Congreve - 1895 - 228 pagina’s
...succeeded on the stage was almost beyond my expectation ; for but little of it was prepared for that general taste which seems now to be predominant in the palates of our audience. Those characters which are meant to be ridiculed in most of our comedies are of fools so gross, that... | |
 | David Schmid - 1897 - 204 pagina’s
...thro' an affected Wit; a Wit, which at the same time that it is affected, is also false". Der Einnuss Colliers ist hierin nicht zu verkennen. Der „general...Purity of his Stile, the Delicacy of his Turns, and the Justness of his Characters" zum Vorbilde genommen, da ja die „coarse Strokes of Plautus" nur die... | |
 | William Congreve - 1903 - 540 pagina’s
...succeeded on the stage, was almost beyond my expectation ; for but little of it was prepared for that general taste which seems now to be predominant in the palates of our audience. Those characters which are meant to be ridiculed in most of our comedies, are of fools so gross, that,... | |
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That it succeeded on the stage was almost beyond my expectation ; for but little of it was prepared for that general taste which seems now to be predominant in the palates of our audience. 
