 ... unexpectedly in upon us, it overflows us: but a long, sober shower gives them leisure to run out as they came in, without troubling the ordinary current. As for comedy, repartee is one of its chiefest graces; the greatest pleasure of the audience...  Beaumont and Fletcher on the Restoration Stage - Page xixby Arthur Colby Sprague - 1926 - 299 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Francis Beaumont - 1750 - 560 pages
...Audience is a Chafe of Wit kept up on both ' Sides, and fwiftly manag'd: And this our Fore' fathers (if not we) have had in Fletcher's Plays, * to a much...higher Degree of Perfection than the " French Poets can arrive at. And in the fame Effay, Page 19, he fays, ' Beau' mont and Fletcher had, with the Advantage... | |
 | Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher - 1811 - 712 pages
...comedy, says, " As for comedy, repartee is one of its chiefest graces. The greatest pleasure of an audience is a chase of wit kept up on both sides,...higher degree of perfection than the French poets can arrive at." And in the same Essay, page 1Q, he says, " Beaumont and Fletcher had, with the advantage... | |
 | Ben Jonson, John Fletcher, Francis Beaumont - 1811 - 712 pages
...comedy, says, " As for comedy, repartee is one of its chiefest graces. The greatest pleasure of an audience is a chase of wit kept up on both sides,...higher degree of perfection than the French poets can arrive at." And in the same Essay, page 19, he says, " Beaumont and Fletcher had, with the advantage... | |
 | John Dryden, John Mitford - 1844 - 536 pages
...in, without trouhling the ordinary current. As for comedy, repartee is one of its chiefest graces ; the greatest pleasure of the audience is a chase of wit, kept up on hoth sides, and swiftlv managed. And this our forefathers, if not we, have had in Fletcher's plays,... | |
 | John Dryden - 1859 - 482 pages
...in, without trouhling the ordinary current. As for com* edy, repartee is one of its chiefest graces ; the greatest pleasure of the audience is a chase of wit, kept up on hoth sides, and swiftly managed. And this our forefathers, if not we, have had in Fleteher's plays,... | |
 | 1864 - 742 pages
..."As fur comedy," he says, in his Essay on Dramatic Poetry, "repartee is one of its chiefest graces ; the greatest pleasure of the audience is a chase of wit kept up on both sides and swiftly managed." In this interchange of verbal carte and tierce, this rapid word-play of passado and punto reverso,... | |
 | University of Nebraska (Lincoln campus) - 1914 - 474 pages
...Comedy he regards repartee one of its chief graces. " The greatest pleasure of an audience," he says, " is a chase of wit, kept up on both sides, and swiftly managed." Beaumont and Fletcher he regards supreme in quickness of wit in repartee, but in wit he naturally places... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1892 - 428 pages
...in, without troubling the ordinary current. As for comedy, repartee is one of its chiefest graces ; the greatest pleasure of the audience is a chase of...swiftly managed. And this our forefathers, if not * The custom of placing an hour-glass before the clergyman •was then common in England. It is still... | |
 | John Dryden - 1892 - 428 pages
...in, without troubling the ordinary current. As for comedy, repartee is one of its chiefest graces ; the greatest pleasure of the audience is a chase of...swiftly managed. And this our forefathers, if not * The custom of placing an hour-glass before the clergyman •was then common in England. It is still... | |
 | John Dryden - 1898 - 224 pages
...in, without troubling the ordinary current, for comedy, repartee is one of its chiefest 10 graces; the greatest pleasure of the audience is a chase of wit, kept up on both sides, and swiftly managed/And this our forefathers, if not we, have had in Fletcher's plays, to a much higher degree... | |
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