 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1885 - 572 pages
...Stuckes 'The Way of the World' an Montague sagt Congreve geradezu: 'Those characters which are meant to be ridiculed in most of our comedies, are of fools...and reflecting part of an audience; they are rather objects of charity than contempt; and instead of moving our mirth, they ought very often to excite... | |
 | WILLIAM CONGREVE - 1887 - 556 pages
...which seems now to be predominant in the palates of our audience. Those characters which are meant to be ridiculed in most of our comedies, are of fools...and reflecting part of an audience ; they are rather objects of charity than contempt; and instead of moving our mirth, they ought very often to excite... | |
 | William Congreve - 1888 - 540 pages
...which seems now to be predominant in the palates of our audience. Those characters which are meant to be ridiculed in most of our comedies, are of fools...and reflecting part of an audience ; they are rather objects of charity than contempt ; and instead of moving our mirth, they ought very often to excite... | |
 | William Congreve - 1895 - 226 pages
...which seems now to be predominant in the palates of our audience. Those characters fHhich are meant to be ridiculed in most of our comedies are of fools...-and reflecting part of an audience ; they are rather objects of charity than contempt, and instead of moving our mirth, they ought very often to excite... | |
 | William Congreve - 1903 - 540 pages
...which seems now to be predominant in the palates of our audience. Those characters which are meant to be ridiculed in most of our comedies, are of fools...and reflecting part of an audience ; they are rather objects of charity than contempt ; and instead of moving our mirth, they ought very often to excite... | |
 | John Palmer - 1913 - 366 pages
...palates of our audience. " Those characters which are meant to be ridiculed in most of our comedies, are fools so gross, that, in my humble opinion, they should...and reflecting part of an audience ; they are rather objects of charity than contempt ; and instead of moving our mirth, they ought very often to excite... | |
 | David Harrison Stevens - 1923 - 938 pages
...palates of our audience, prepared for that general taste which seems now Those characters which are meant objects of charity than contempt; and instead of moving our mirth, they ought very often to excite... | |
 | William Congreve - 1924 - 104 pages
...which seems now to be predominant in the palates of our audience. Those characters which are meant to be ridiculed in most of our comedies are of fools...and reflecting part of an audience; they are rather objects of charity than contempt, and instead of moving our mirth, they ought very often to excite... | |
 | Bonamy Dobrée - 1924 - 192 pages
...meant to be ridiculed in most of our comedies,' he wrote, in the dedication of The Way of the World^ ' are of fools so gross, that in my humble opinion,...and reflecting part of an audience ; they are rather objects of charity than contempt ; and instead of moving our mirth, v they ought very often to excite... | |
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Those characters which are meant to be ridiculed in most of our comedies are of fools so gross, that in my humble opinion they should rather disturb than divert the wellnatured and reflecting part of an audience; they are rather objects of charity than... 
