 | Charles Brockden Brown - 1805 - 500 páginas
...admires him ! But mark my prophecy, that, by another season, his performance will be as much decried as it is now extolled, for it has not intrinsic merit...shortlived breath of fashion : and yet another prophecy 1 utter, that this ridiculous compound -will be the cause of man« more productions, witless and humourless,... | |
 | William Forsyth - 1871 - 388 páginas
...season this performance will be as much decryed as it is now extolled ; for it has not sufficient merit to prevent its sinking when no longer upheld by the...encouragement by being poisoned with disgustful nonsense.""* In his * Essay on Conversation/ which contains some admirable precepts, Fielding strongly insists against... | |
 | William Forsyth - 1871 - 352 páginas
...season this performance will be as much decried as it is now extolled ; for it has not sufficient merit to prevent its sinking when no longer upheld by the...be the cause of many more productions, witless and humorless, perhaps, but indecent and absurd, till the town will be punished for undue encouragement... | |
 | William Forsyth - 1871 - 366 páginas
...season this performance will be as much decried as it is now extolled ; for it has not sufficient merit to prevent its sinking when no longer upheld by the...be the cause of many more productions, witless and humorless, perhaps, but indecent and absurd, till the town will be punished for undue encouragement... | |
 | William Forsyth - 1871 - 372 páginas
...season this performance will be as much decried as it is now extolled ; for it has not sufficient merit to prevent its sinking when no longer upheld by the...be the cause of many more productions, witless and humorless, perhaps, but indecent and absurd, till the town will be punished for undue encouragement... | |
 | Carl Holliday - 1912 - 472 páginas
...flown from one to another till it is almost singular to disapprove. . . . But mark my prophecy, . . . that this ridiculous compound will be the cause of many more productions witless and humorless perhaps, but indecent and absurd, till the town will be punished for 'undue encouragement... | |
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... to prevent its sinking when no longer upheld by the short-lived breath of fashion : and yet another prophecy I utter, that this ridiculous compound will be the cause of many more productions, witless and humourless, perhaps, but indecent and absurd,... 