 | John Dryden - 1859 - 482 pages
...suffer, hut they cannot laugh. And as Sir William D'Avenant ohserves in his Preface to " Gondihert," * It is the wisdom of a government to permit plays, (he might have added — farees,) as it is the prudence of a carter to put hells upon his horses, to make them carry their... | |
 | John Dryden - 1882 - 320 pages
...laugh at any rate ; and if a straw can tickle a man, it is an instrument of happiness. Beasts can weep when they suffer, but they cannot laugh ; and, as...bells upon his horses to make them carry their burdens cheerfully." I have already shown that one main end of poetry and painting is to please, and have said... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - English literature - 1892 - 520 pages
...laugh at any rate ; and if a straw can tickle a man, it is an instrument of happiness. Beasts can weep when they suffer, but they cannot laugh. And as Sir...put bells upon his horses, to make them carry their burthens cheerfully." I have already shewn, that one main end of poetry and painting is to please,... | |
 | John Dryden - 1895 - 266 pages
...laugh at any rate; and if a straw can tickle a man, it is an instrument of happiness. Beasts can weep when they suffer, but they cannot laugh; and, as Sir...bells upon his horses to make them carry their burdens cheerfully." I have already shown that one main end of poetry and painting is to please, and have said... | |
 | John Dryden - Criticism - 1900 - 350 pages
...at any rate ; 20 and if a straw can tickle a man, it is an instrument of happiness. Beasts can weep when they suffer, but they cannot laugh. And as Sir...William D'Avenant observes in his Preface to Gondibert, ' 'Tis the wisdom of a government to permit plays' (he might have added 25 — farces), ' as 'tis the... | |
 | John Dryden - 1926 - 342 pages
...at any rate ; 20 and if a straw can tickle a man, it is an instrument of happiness. Beasts can weep when they suffer, but they cannot laugh. And as Sir...William D'Avenant observes in his Preface to Gondibert, ' Tis the wisdom of a government to permit plays ' (he might have added 25 — farces), ' as 'tis the... | |
 | Hunting - 1831 - 568 pages
...man, .Sir William Davenant, said of plays : " that it is the wisdom of a Government to permit plays, as it is the prudence of a carter to put bells upon his horses to make them carry their burthens cheerfully :" and so we may say that it is the wisdom and prudence oí' the Aristocracy and... | |
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After all, it is a good thing to laugh at any rate ; and if a straw can tickle a man, it is an instrument of happiness. Beasts can weep when they suffer, but they cannot laugh. And as Sir William D'Avenant observes in his Preface to " Gondibert," " It... 
