 ... unexpectedly in upon us, it overflows us : but a long sober shower gives them leisure to run out as they came in, without troubling the ordinary current. As for comedy, repartee is one of its chiefest graces ; the greatest pleasure of the audience...  Yale Studies in English - 第 lxv 頁1906完整檢視 - 關於此書
 | Barrett Harper Clark - 1918 - 524 頁
...out as they came in, without troubling the ordinary 'current. As for comedy, repartee is one of its chiefest graces; the greatest pleasure of the audience...of wit, kept up on both sides, and swiftly managed. And this our forefathers, if not we, have had in Fletcher's plays, to a much higher degree of perfection... | |
 | Barrett Harper Clark - 1918 - 544 頁
...they came in, without troubling the ordinary current. As for comedy, repartee is one of its chief est graces; the greatest pleasure of the audience is a...of wit, kept up on both sides, and swiftly managed. And this our forefathers, if not we, have had in Fletcher's plays, to a much higher degree of perfection... | |
 | Barrett Harper Clark - 1918 - 532 頁
...out as they came in, without troubling the ordinary current. As for comedy, repartee is one of its chiefest graces; the greatest pleasure of the audience...of wit, kept up on both sides, and swiftly managed. And this our forefathers, if not we, have had in Fletcher's plays, to a much higher degree of perfection... | |
 | Arthur Colby Sprague - 1926 - 344 頁
...Dryden to Congreve.3 And in another place he has: "As_for ramedyjj^garteejs one ofjts j:hiefest gracesj the greatest pleasure of the audience is a chase of wit, kept up on both sides, and swiftly managed. And this our forefathers, if not we, have had in Fletcher's plays, to a much higher degree of perfection,... | |
 | H. James Jensen - 1969 - 141 頁
...associated more and more with lightness and cleverness. Dryden says, "The greatest pleasure of this audience is a chase of wit kept up on both sides, and swiftly managed" (I. 60) . He speaks of "quickness of wit in repartee" (I. 68), and calls comedy "the wit and fooling... | |
 | J. L. Styan - 1986 - 292 頁
...of comedy.' In his Essay of Dramatic Poesy, he expanded this: 'As for comedy, repartee is one of its chiefest graces; the greatest pleasure of the audience...of wit, kept up on both sides, and swiftly managed' (p. 59). Such 'brisk writing', as Shadwell called it in Epsom Wells, had a parry and thrust which demands... | |
 | Paul Henry Lang - 1996 - 794 頁
...cannot usurp the primacy of brisk and vivacious dialogue, the heart of the theatre. Dryden's dictum that "the greatest pleasure of the audience is a chase...of wit, kept up on both sides, and swiftly managed" is the perfect summary, the basic maxim of the English theatre. The English were not disposed to permit... | |
 | John Dryden - 2003 - 1024 頁
...out as they came in, without troubling the ordinary current. As for comedy, repartee is one of its chiefest graces. The greatest pleasure of the audience...of wit, kept up on both sides, and swiftly managed. And this our forefathers, if not we, have had in Fletcher's plays to a much higher degree of perfection... | |
 | Vittoria Intonti - 2004 - 300 頁
...dai sofisticati spettatori dei teatri della Restaurazione, per i quali "the greatest pleasure /.../ is a chase of wit, kept up on both sides, and swiftly managed"3". In The Triumph ofHonour la sensualità e arguzia del dialogo ammirate dal Neander di Dryden... | |
 | John Dryden - 312 頁
...out as they came in, without troubling the ordinary current. As for comedy, repartee is one of its chiefest graces. The greatest pleasure of the audience...of wit, kept up on both sides, and swiftly managed. And this our forefathers, if not we, have had in Fletcher's plays to a much higher degree of perfection... | |
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