 | George Villiers Duke of Buckingham - 1796 - 132 页
...Smith. New kind ! what kind is that ? • John. Why, your virtuosi, your civil persons, your drolls ; fellows that scorn to imitate nature, but are given altogether to elevate and surprise. Smith. Elevate and surprise ! Pr'ythee, make me understand the meaning of that. got amongst them, to... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1811 - 698 页
...wits. Smi. New kind ! what kind is that ? JoAn. Why, your virtuosi, your civil persons, vour drolls; fellows that scorn to imitate nature, but are given altogether to elevate and surprise. Smi. Elcwte and surprise ! pr"ythee make me understand the meaning of that. John. Nay, by my troth... | |
 | British drama - 1811 - 696 页
...wits. Smi. New kind ! what kind is that ? John. Why, your virtuosi, your civil persons, your drolls ; e doors then, Or walls, I assure their eyesights and their spectacles; Fo anil surprise. Smi. Elevate and surprise ! pr'ythee make me understand the meaning of that. John. Nay,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1811 - 690 页
...wits. Smi. New kind ! what kind is that ? Jn!in. Why, your virtuosi, your civil persons, your drolls ; fellows that scorn to imitate nature, but are given altogether to elevate anil surprise. Smi. Elevate and surprise"! pr*ythee~niaKe*me understand the meaning of that. John.... | |
 | Elizabeth Stone - 1845 - 472 页
...Smith.— New kind I What is that ? Johnson. — Why, your virtuosi, your civil persons, your drolls : fellows that scorn to imitate nature, but are given altogether to elevate and surprise. Smith. — Elevate and surprise I pr 'ythee make me understand the meaning of that. Johnson, — Nay,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1879 - 428 页
...copied onthestage. Some of the phrases are still current. Thus the new play-writers were said to be . fellows that scorn to imitate nature ; but are given altogether to elevate and surprise. * When Bayes is reminded that the plot stands still, he breaks out: .Plot stands still ! why whatadevil... | |
 | Henry Morley - 1885 - 332 页
...Smith. New kind ! what kind is that ? Johns. Why, your virtuousi ; your civil persons, your drolls ; fellows that scorn to imitate nature ; but are given altogether to elevate and surprise. Smith. Elevate and surprise ! prithee, make me understand the meaning of that. Johns. Nay, by my troth,... | |
 | William Congreve - 1922 - 108 页
...Smith in The Rehearsal, when Johnson is severe upon the ' new kind of Wits ' who write Heroic Plays, ' fellows that scorn to imitate Nature ; but are given altogether to elevate and surprise.' The conversation continues : SMI. Elevate, and surprise ? pr'ythee make me understand the meaning of... | |
 | William Congreve - 1923 - 280 页
...former sharply criticizes "the new kind of Wits . . . your Virtuosi, your civil persons, your Drolls: fellows that scorn to imitate Nature; but are given altogether to elevate and surprise." " Elevate and surprise ! " exclaims Smith, " pr'ythee make me understand the meaning of that." " Nay,... | |
 | Alexander Frederick Bruce Clark - 1925 - 566 页
...the stage. 4 Within that sphere 1. See chapter IX of this Book. 2. Cf. Act I, sc. 1,1. 30 ff : " . . .fellows that scorn to imitate nature, but are given altogether to elevate and surprise " ; and Act II, sc. i, 1. 58 : " . . .1 despise your Jonson and Beaumont, that borrowed all they writ... | |
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Why, your virtuosi, your civil persons, your drolls: fellows that scorn to imitate nature, but are given altogether to elevate and surprise. 
