 | Colley Cibber - 1740 - 530 oldal
...Plays there, from that which prevail'd at London. A great deal of that falfe, flafhy Wit, and forc'd Humour, which had been the Delight of our Metropolitan Multitude, was only rated there at its bare, intrinfick Value ; Applaufe was not to be purchafed there, but by the true Sterling, the... | |
 | Colley Cibber - 1750 - 594 oldal
...Plays there, from that which prevaiPd at London. A great deal of that falfe, flamy Wit, and forc'd Humour, which had been the Delight of our Metropolitan Multitude, was only rated there at its bare, intrinfkk Value ; Applaufe was not to be purchafed there, but by the true Sterling, the Sal... | |
 | George Chalmers - 1797 - 656 oldal
...that tribute was paid, by the award of learning, to the effufions of genius. " A great deal of falfe wit, and " forced humour, which had been the delight...our metropolitan multitude, was only " rated there [Oxford] at its bare intrinfic j " value j " value ; applaufe was not to be purchafed " there, but... | |
 | Colley Cibber - 1822 - 564 oldal
...Oxford, was to show the different taste of plays there from that which prevailed at London. A great deal of that false flashy wit, and forced humour, which...our metropolitan multitude, was only rated there at its bare intrinsic value ; applause was not to be purchased there, but by the true sterling, the sal... | |
 | 1826 - 362 oldal
...Oxford, was to show the different taste of plays there, from that which prevailed at London. A great deal of that false flashy wit, and forced humour, which...our metropolitan multitude, was only rated there at its bare intrinsic value ; applause was not to be purchased there, but by the true sterling, the sal... | |
 | Colley Cibber - 1826 - 358 oldal
...Oxford, was to show the different taste of plays there, from that which prevailed at London. A great deal of that false flashy wit, and forced humour, which...our metropolitan multitude, was only rated there at its bare intrinsic value ; applause was not to "be purchased there, but by the true sterling, the sal... | |
 | George Birkbeck Norman Hill - 1878 - 374 oldal
...be shut. The actors found a more highly cultivated audience at Oxford than at London. ' A great deal of that false flashy wit and forced humour, which...our Metropolitan multitude was only rated there at its bare intrinsic value.' Shakespeare and Jonson were now reverenced in Oxford as Aristotle once had... | |
 | George Birkbeck Norman Hill - 1878 - 374 oldal
...be shut. The actors found a more highly cultivated audience at Oxford than at London. ' A great deal of that false flashy wit and forced humour, which...our Metropolitan multitude was only rated there at its bare intrinsic value.' Shakespeare and Jonson were now reverenced in Oxford as Aristotle once had... | |
 | Charles William Boase - 1890 - 258 oldal
...good taste of the Oxonians, who preferred Shakspere and Ben Jonson, and were not carried away with the false flashy wit and forced humour which had been the delight of our metropolitan multitude. Addison's Cato had a run of three days' extreme popularity, and ' entrance demanded by twelve o'clock... | |
 | Sir Henry Irving - 1904 - 70 oldal
...audience is instructive. " A great deal," he writes, " of that false, flashy wit and forced humourwhich had been the delight of our metropolitan multitude,...inspired as deep a reverence as the Ethics of Aristotle ; and therefore we may gather from his account that whilst "Gato"was received with enthusiasm, the... | |
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of that false, flashy wit and forced humour which had been the delight of our metropolitan multitude, was only rated there (at Oxford) at its bare, intrinsic value. 
