 | John Dryden, Edmond Malone - 1800 - 634 pages
...Lov*'s LABOUR LOST, MEASURE FOR MBASURB, which were either grounded on impossibilities, or at least so meanly written, that the comedy neither caused your mirth, nor the serious part your concernment. If I would expatiate on this subject, I could easily demonstrate that our admired Fletcher, who writ... | |
 | John Dryden - 1800 - 624 pages
...LOVE'S LABOUR LOST, MEASURE FOR MEASURE, which were either grounded on impossibilities, or at least so meanly written, that the comedy neither caused your mirth, nor the serious part your concernment. If I would expatiate on this subject, I could easily demonstrate that our admired Fletcher, who writ... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1803 - 558 pages
...Love's Labour's Lost, Measure for Measure, which were either grounded on impossibilities, or at least so meanly written, that the comedy neither caused...your mirth, nor the serious part your concernment." Mr. Pope, in the Preface to his edition of our author's plays, pronounced the same ill-considered judgement... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1805 - 442 pages
...Love's Labour's Lott, Measure for Measure, which were either grounded on impossibilities, or at least so meanly written, that the comedy neither caused...your mirth, nor the serious part your concernment." Mr. Pope, in the Preface to his edition of our author's plays, pronounced the same ill-considered judgment... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1805 - 576 pages
...Love's Labuur's Lost, Measure for Measure, which were either grounded on impossibilities, or at least so meanly written, that the comedy neither caused...your mirth, nor the serious part your concernment." Mr. Pope, in the Preface to his edition of our author'* plays, pronounced the same ill-considered judgment... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1805 - 454 pages
...Love's Labour's Lust, Measure for Measure, which were either grounded on impossibilities, or at least so meanly written, that the comedy neither caused...your mirth, nor the serious part your concernment." Mr. Pope, in the Preface to his edition of our author's plays, pronounced the same ill-considered judgment... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808 - 474 pages
...Love's Labour Lost," " Measure for Measure," which were either grounded on impossibilities, or at least so meanly written, that the comedy neither caused...your mirth, nor the serious part your concernment*. If I would expatiate on this subject, I could easily demonstrate, that our admired Fletcher, who wrote... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1811 - 580 pages
...Love's Labour's Lost, Measure for Measure, which were either grounded on impossibilities, or at least so meanly written, that the comedy neither caused...your mirth, nor the serious part your concernment." Mr. Pope, in the Preface to his edition of our author's plays, pronounced the same ill-considered judgment... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1813 - 364 pages
...Love's labour* Lost, Measure for Measure, which were either grounded on impossibilities, or at least so meanly written, that the comedy neither caused...your mirth, nor the serious part your concernment." Mr. Pope, in the Preface to his edition of our author's plays, pronounced the same ill-considered judgement... | |
 | Ben Jonson, William Gifford - 1816 - 482 pages
...Love's Labour Lost, and Measure for Measure, are either grounded on impossibilities, or, at least, so meanly written, that the comedy neither caused...your mirth, nor the serious part your concernment." I have yet a word to say of Dryden. Of all the dramatic writers of Charles's days, who traded in obscenity... | |
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Tyre, nor the historical plays of Shakespeare : besides many of the rest, as the Winter's Tale... 
