 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1823 - 652 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 Shakspeare and Fletcher have used, in their plays, to raise... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 674 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 Shakspeare and Fletdher have used, in their plays, to raise... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 504 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 Shakespeare and Fletcher have used, in their plays, to... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1826 - 430 pagina’s
...butthepoet'sbusinessis certainly to please the andience. ' Whether our English andience have been pleased hitherto with acorns, as he calls it, or with bread, is the uext question; that is, whether the means which Shakspeare and Fletcher have used, in their plays,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1834 - 722 pagina’s
...means which Shakspeare ana Fletcher have used, in their plays, to raise those passions beforenamed, 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, John Mitford - 1836 - 488 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 Shakspeare and Fletcher have used in their plays to rai.se... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1837 - 752 pagina’s
...poet's business is cerlainly to please the audience. " Whether our English audience have bepn pleased he lew touches which his father bestowed upon the revisal of the question ; that is, whether the means which Shakspeare and Fletcher have used, in their plays, to raise... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1840 - 522 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 Shakspeare and Fletcher have used, in their plays, to raise... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 346 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 Shakespeare and Fletcher have used in their plays to raise... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1858 - 418 pagina’s
...pleased the Greeks would not satisfy an English audience. "Whether ourEnglishaudience 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... | |
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