 In these plays almost all the characters are good, and exceedingly generous; they are lavish enough of their tin money on the stage; and though they want humour, have abundance of sentiment and feeling. If they happen to have faults or foibles, the spectator...  Select British Classics - Seite 1511804Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Frederick Tupper - 1914 - 482 Seiten
...their flattering every man in his favorite foible. In these plays almost all the characters are good, and exceedingly generous ; they are lavish enough...their tin money on the stage ; and though they want humor, have abundance of sentiment and feeling. If they happen to have faults or foibles, the spectator... | |
 | Frederick Tupper - 1914 - 480 Seiten
...their flattering every man in his favorite foible. In these plays almost all the characters are good, and exceedingly generous; they are lavish enough of...their tin money on the stage ; and though they want humor, have abundance of sentiment and feeling. If they happen to have faults or foibles, the spectator... | |
 | Barrett Harper Clark - 1918 - 524 Seiten
...exceedingly generous; they are lavish enough of their iin money on the stage; and though they want humor, have abundance of sentiment and feeling. If they happen...to applaud them, in consideration of the goodness of their hearts; so that folly, instead of being ridiculed, is commended, and the comedy aims at touching... | |
 | Barrett Harper Clark - 1918 - 528 Seiten
...their flattering every man in his favorite foible. In these plays almost all the characters are good, and exceedingly generous; they are lavish enough of...their tin money on the stage; and though they want humor, have abundance of sentiment and feeling. If they happen to have faults'or foibles, the spectator... | |
 | Benjamin Brawley - 1921 - 278 Seiten
...also from their flattering every man in his foible. In these plays almost all the characters are good, and exceedingly generous ; they are lavish enough...to applaud them, in consideration of the goodness of their hearts; so that folly, instead of being ridiculed, is commended, and the comedy aims at touching... | |
 | Barrett Harper Clark - 1918 - 532 Seiten
...fluttering every шав. m lus favorite foible. In these plays almost all the characters are good, and exceedingly generous; they are lavish enough of...their tin money on the stage; and though they want humor, have abundance of sentiment and feeling. If they happen to have faults or foibles, the spectator... | |
 | Victor Francis Calverton - 1926 - 380 Seiten
...of mankind make our interest in the piece. ... In these plays almost all of the characters are good, and exceedingly generous; they are lavish enough of...their tin money on the stage; and though they want humor, have abundance of sentiment and feeling. If they happen to have faults or foibles, the spectator... | |
 | 1928 - 826 Seiten
...exceedingly generons; they are lavish enongh with their tin money on the stage; aud though they want hnmour have abundance of sentiment and feeling. If they happen to have faults or foibles, the spectator is tanght, not only to pardon, bnt to appland them, in consideration of the goodness of their hearts;... | |
 | Stuart M. Tave - 1993 - 294 Seiten
...sentimental that "they are lavish enough of their tin money on the stage"; or if they happen to have faults the spectator is taught not only to pardon but to applaud them "in consideration of the goodness of their hearts; so that folly, instead of being ridiculed is commended" (1773). This is a morality... | |
 | G. S. Rousseau - 1995 - 420 Seiten
...faults of mankind make our interest in the piece. In these plays almost all the characters are good, and exceedingly generous ; they are lavish enough...their tin money on the stage ; and though they want humor, have abundance of sentiment and feeling. If they happen to have faults or foibles, the spectator... | |
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