 | John Dryden - 1800 - 624 pages
...A continued gravity keeps the spirit too much bent ; we must refresh it sometimes, as we bait in a journey, that we may go on with greater ease. A scene...with tragedy, has the same effect upon us which our musick has betwixt the acts ; which we find a relief to us from the best plots and language of the... | |
 | John Dryden, Edmond Malone - 1800 - 591 pages
...A continued gravity keeps the spirit too much bent ; we must refresh it sometimes, as we bait in a journey, that we may go on with greater ease. A scene...with tragedy, has the same effect upon us which our musick has betwixt the acts ; which we find a relief to us from the best plots and language of the... | |
 | John Dryden, Edmond Malone - 1800 - 634 pages
...much bent; we must refresh it sometimes, as we bait in a journey, that we may go on with greater case. A scene of mirth, mixed with tragedy, has the same effect upon us which our musick has betwixt the acts; which we find a relief to us from the best plots and language of the stage,... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford - 1819 - 412 pages
...mirth, mixed with tragedy, has the same effeet upon us whieh our musie has betwixt the aets ; wbieh we find a relief to us from the best plots and language of the stage, if the diseourses have been long. I must therefore have stronger arguments, ere I am eonvineed, that eompassion... | |
 | 1821 - 404 pages
...with greater ease. A scene of mirth, mixed with tragedy, has the same effect upon us which our musick has betwixt the acts ; which we find a relief to us...long. I must therefore have stronger arguments, ere 1 am convinced that compassion and mirth in the same subject destroy each other ; and in the mean time... | |
 | Henry Southern - 1821 - 408 pages
...A continued gravity keeps the spirit too much bent ; we must refresh it sometimes, as we bait in a journey, that we may go on with greater ease. A scene...with tragedy, has the same effect upon us which our musick has betwixt the acts ; which we find a relief to us from the best plots and language of the... | |
 | 1821 - 408 pages
...A continued gravity keeps the spirit too much bent ; we must refresh it sometimes, as we bait in a journey, that we may go on with greater ease. A scene...with tragedy, has the same effect upon us which our musick has betwixt the acts ; which we find a relief to us from the best plots and language of the... | |
 | John Dryden, John Mitford - 1844 - 536 pages
...other. A continued gravity keeps the spirit too much hunt; we must refresh it sometimes, as we hait in a journey, that we may go on with greater ease. A scene...tragedy, has the same effect upon us which our music has hetwixt the acts ; which we nod a relief to us from the hest plots and language of the stage, if the... | |
 | John Dryden - 1859 - 482 pages
...A continued gravity keeps the spirit too much ht:nt ; we must refresh it sometimes, as we hait in a journey, that we may go on with greater ease. A scene...tragedy, has the same effect upon us which our music has hetwixt the acts ; which we find a relief to us front the hest plots and language of the stage, if... | |
 | John Dryden - 1889 - 176 pages
...continued gravity keeps the spirit too much bent ; we must refresh it sometimes, as we bait in a journey 10 that we may go on with greater ease. A scene of mirth,...with tragedy, has the same effect upon us which our musick has betwixt the acts ; which we find 1 a relief to us from the best plots and language of the... | |
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A continued gravity keeps the spirit too much bent; we must refresh it sometimes, as we bait in a journey, that we may go on with greater ease. 
