 | John Dryden - 1854 - عدد الصفحات: 324
...none of those who endeavour to hreak jests in company, or make repartees. So that those who decry my comedies do me no injury, except it be in point of profit ; reputation in them is the last thing to which I shall pretend.'* Yet although he was one of those men described by Dr. Johnson,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - عدد الصفحات: 472
...none of those who endeavour to break jests in company, or make repartees. So that those who decry my comedies do me no injury except it be in point of profit: reputation in them is the last thing to which I shall protend. — DBVDEX: Defence of Essay, 1668. 1631-1700. RIDICULED AS HAYES... | |
 | Dr. Doran (John) - 1865 - عدد الصفحات: 436
...who endeavor to break jests in company, and endeavor to make repartees ; so that those who decry my comedies do me no injury, except it be in point of profit ; reputation in them is the last thing to which I shall pretend." This is the picture of a dull man, of which Shadwell, whose comedies,... | |
 | Dr. Doran (John) - 1865 - عدد الصفحات: 434
...who endeavor to break jests in company, and endeavor to make repartees ; so that those who decry my comedies do me no injury, except it be in point of profit ; reputation in them is the last thing to which I shall pretend." This is the picture of a dull man, of which Shadwell, whose comedies,... | |
 | 1868 - عدد الصفحات: 690
...none of those who endeavour to break jests in company or make repartees. So that those who decry my comedies do me no injury, except it be in point of profit : Reputation in them is the last thing to which I shall pretend." * For my own part, though I have been forced to hold my nose... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1898 - عدد الصفحات: 396
...none of those who endeavour to break jests in company or make repartees. So that those who decry my comedies do me no injury, except it be in point of profit : Reputation in them is the last thing to which I shall pretend." * For my own part, though I have been forced to hold my nose... | |
 | JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL. A.M. - 1870 - عدد الصفحات: 604
...none of those who endeavour to break jests in company or make repartees. So that those who decry my comedies do me no injury, except it be in point of profit : Reputation in them is the last thing to which I shall pretend."1 For my own part, though I have been forced to hold my nose in... | |
 | 1878 - عدد الصفحات: 630
...it. My conversation is slow and dull, my humour saturnine and reserved. So that those who decry my comedies do me no injury except it be in point of profit ; reputation in them is the last thing to which I shall pretend.' He had indeed no humour ; he had no grace ; he had no eye for... | |
 | 1878 - عدد الصفحات: 618
...it. My conversation is slow and dull, my humour saturnine and reserved. So that those who decry my comedies do me no injury except it be in point of profit ; reputation in them is the last thing to which I shall pretend.' He had indeed no humour ; he had no grace ; he had no eye for... | |
 | 1878 - عدد الصفحات: 646
...it. My conversation is slow and dull, my humour saturnine and reserved. So that those who decry my comedies do me no injury except it be in point of profit ; reputation in them is the last thing to which I shall pretend. ' He had indeed no humour ; he had no grace ; he had no eye for... | |
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I am none of those who endeavour to break jests in company or make repartees. So that those who decry my comedies do me no injury, except it be in point of profit. Reputation in them is the last thing to which I shall pretend. 
