 | Charles-Alphonse Dufresnoy - Painters - 1716 - 504 pages
...can give the Stage no better than what was given him by Nature : And the Aftor s muft reprefent fuch Things as they are capable to perform , and by which...and the Scribbler may get their living. After all, 'tia a good thing to laugh at any rate, and if a Straw can tickle a Man, 'tis an Inftrument of Happineis.... | |
 | Charles-Alphonse Dufresnoy - Art - 1783 - 248 pages
...can give the ftage no better than what was given him by Nature ; and the Adtors muft reprefent fuch things as they are capable to perform, and by which...they and the Scribbler may get their living. After ter all, it is a good Thing to laugh at any rate ; and if a can tickle a man, it is an inftrument of... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds, Edmond Malone - Art - 1798 - 394 pages
...can give the stage no better than what was given him by nature; and the actors must represent such things as they are capable to perform, and by which...can tickle a man, it is an instrument of happiness. Beast* cart wee£ when they suffer, but they cannot laugh: and, as Sir William Davenant observes, in... | |
 | John Dryden, Edmond Malone - English prose literature - 1800 - 670 pages
...can give the stage no better than what was given him by nature; and the actors must represent such things as they are capable to perform, and by which...Beasts can weep, when they suffer, but they cannot laughi And as Sir William Davenant observes in his Preface to GONDIBERT, ' It is the wisdom of fa government... | |
 | John Dryden - 1800 - 662 pages
...can give the stage no better than what was given him by nature? and the actors must represent such things as they are capable to perform, and by which...After all, it is a good thing to laugh at any rate ; arid if a straw can tickle a man, it is an instrument of happiness. Beasts can weep, when they suffer,... | |
 | John Dryden - English literature - 1808 - 518 pages
...can give the stage no better than what was given him by nature ; and the actors must represent such things as they are capable to perform, and by which...and if a straw can tickle a man, it is an instrument 7 of happiness. Beasts can weep when they suffer, but they cannot laugh. And as Sir William D'Avenant... | |
 | John Dryden - 1808 - 518 pages
...can give the stage no better than what was given him by nature ; and the actors must represent such things as they are capable to perform, and by which...and if a straw can tickle a man, it is an instrument 7 of happiness. Beasts can weep when they suffer, but they cannot laugh. And as Sir William D'Avenant... | |
 | William Mason - English literature - 1811 - 438 pages
...can give the stage no better than what was given him by Nature ; and the actors must represent such things as they are capable to perform, and by which...they and the scribbler may get their living. After a\l, it is a good thing to laugh at any rate ; and if a straw can tickle a man, it is an instrument... | |
 | William Mason - Church music - 1811 - 430 pages
...can give the stage no better than what was given him by Nature ; and the actors must represent such things as they are capable to perform, and by which both they and the scribbler may get tlteir Jiving. After all, it is a good thing to laugh at any rate; and if a straw can tickle a man,... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1816 - 746 pages
...now dig for your life, Or fhortly you'll dig for your living. Denham. — Actors nmft reprefeot fuch things as they are capable to perform, and by which both they and the fcribbler may get their living. Drydat 4. Benefice of a clergyman. — Some of our minifters having... | |
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After all, it is a good thing to laugh at any rate ; and if a straw can tickle a man, it is an instrument of happiness. 
