 Though need make many poets, and some such As art and nature have not better'd much ; Yet ours for want hath not so loved the stage, As he dare serve the ill customs of the age, Or purchase your delight at such a rate, As, for it, he himself must justly...  A History of English Rhythms - Page 131by Edwin Guest - 1838 - 318 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Ben Jonson - 1756 - 526 pages
...praife or excufe. Your True Lover, BEN. JONSON. PROLOGUE. T Hough need make many poets, and fome fuch As art and nature have not better'd much ; Yet ours for want, hath not fo lov'd the ftage, As he dare ferve th' ill cuftoms of the age, Orpurchafe your delight at fuch a... | |
 | Octavius Gilchrist - 1808 - 74 pages
...transcribe a few of the lines. Though ifted make many poets, and some such As art or nature have not mended much, Yet ours for want hath not so loVd the stage As he dare serve th' ill customs of the age, Or purchase your delight at such a rate As for it he himself must justly hate. To make a child now... | |
 | Friedrich Bouterwek - Literature - 1809 - 500 pages
...iac i\i Феи 3<>Nf°n<* f driften SBcfircbungen. Though need make many poets , and Гоше fuch As art and nature have not better'd much; Yet ours , for want , hath not fo lov'd the ftage, -, ' • A$ he dare ferve tb'ill eufloms of the age, Or purchafc your delight at... | |
 | Ben Jonson - 1811 - 790 pages
...hich when you heartily do, there's hope left then, [lite men. You, that luve so grac'd monsters, may THOUGH need make many poets, and some such As art...ours for want, hath not so lov'd the stage, As he dares serve th' ill customs of the age, Or purchase your delight at such a rate, As, for it, he himself... | |
 | Walter Scott - English drama - 1811 - 698 pages
...representation. THE BRITISH DRAMA. EVERY MAN IN HIS HUMOUR. ALTERED FROM BEN JONSON. PROLOGUE. THO* need make many poets, and some such As art and nature have not bettered much ; Yet ours, for want, hath not so loved the stage, As he dare serve the ill customs of... | |
 | British drama - 1811 - 696 pages
...DITTO, 1701 G39 THE BRITISH DRAMA. EVERY MAN IN HIS HUMOUR. ALTERED FROM BEN JONSON. PROLOGUE. THO' need make many poets, and some such As art and nature have not bettered much ; Yet ours, for want, hath not so loved the stage, As he dare ¿erve the ill customs... | |
 | Ben Jonson, William Gifford - Dramatists, English - 1816 - 538 pages
...sure it will, with good men, find either praise or excuse. Your True Lover, BEN JONSON.1 PROLOGUE. Though need make many poets, and some such As art...not better'd much ; Yet ours for want hath not so loved the stage, As he dare serve the ill customs of the age, Or purchase your delight at such a rate,... | |
 | Ben Jonson, William Gifford - Dramatists, English - 1816 - 546 pages
...am sure it will, with good men,find either praise or excuse. Your True Lover, BEN JONSON." PROLOGUE. Though need make many poets, and some such As art and nature have not bettered much ; Yet ours for want hath not so loved the stage, As he dare serve the ill customs of... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1821 - 432 pages
...on Shakespeare, on the score mentioned in the text, is the prologue to " Every Man in his Humour." Though need make many poets, and some such As art and nature have not bettered much; Yet ours, for want, hath not so loved the stage, An he dare serve the ill customs of... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - 760 pages
...author for representing battles on the stage. So, in his prologue to Every Man in his Humour : " — — Yet ours, for want, hath not so lov'd the stage, " As he dare serve the ill customs of the age ; " Or purchase your delight at such a rate, " As, for it, he himself must... | |
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