 | Sir Joshua Reynolds - 1835 - 514 стор.
...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...put 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... | |
 | John Dryden, John Mitford - 1836 - 488 стор.
...recollected the pieces of Teniers. 331 any rate ; and if a straw can tickle a man, it is an instrument of happiness. Beasts can weep when they suffer, but...put 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... | |
 | John Dryden, John Mitford - 1844 - 536 стор.
...suffer, hut they cannot laugh. And as Sir William D'Avenant ohserves in his PreiV-'M't "Goudihert," "It is the wisdom of a government to permit plays,...farces,) as it is the prudence of a carter to put hells uj ,nn his horses, to make them carry thetr hurdens cheerfully. I have already shown, that one... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds - 1846 - 506 стор.
...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...put bells upon his horses to make them carry their burdens cheerfully." 1 have already shown that one main end of Poetry and Painting is to please, and... | |
 | James Kent - 1853 - 140 стор.
...persons of undoubted ability and taste. IV. DRAMA. It is the wisdom of government to permit plays, as it is the prudence of a carter to put bells upon his horses, to make them carry their burden cheerfully.—SIR W. D'AVENANT. Shakespeare's Dramatic Works (1), No one should ever cease reading.... | |
 | 1856 - 372 стор.
...DCCCXXIX. 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 . Dry den. DCCCXXX. Why will mankind be fools, and be deceiv'd ? And why are friends' and lovers' oaths... | |
 | John Timbs - 1856 - 374 стор.
...DCCCXX1X. 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. Dryden, DCCCXXX. Why will mankind be fools, and be deceiv'd ? And why are friends' and lovers' oaths... | |
 | John Dryden - 1859 - 482 стор.
...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... | |
 | William Minto - 1881 - 596 стор.
...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. " His remarks on Invention are more to the purpose : — "The principal parts of painting and poetry... | |
 | John Dryden - 1882 - 320 стор.
...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...put 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... | |
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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 Davenant observes, in his Preface to Gondibert, " It is... 
