 | Leander Jan De Bekker - 1916 - 724 页
...of manners in high and low life that it is difficult to determine whether (in the fashionable sense) the fine gentlemen imitate the gentlemen of the road, or the gentlemen of the road imitate the fine gentlemen." The hero of the piece is Captain Macheath, a highwayman who falls in love... | |
 | John Gay - 1926 - 758 页
...must do, to comply with the taste of the town. X, Beg. Through the whole piece you may observe such a similitude of manners in high and low life, that...the road the fine gentlemen. — — Had the Play remairi'd, as I at first intended, it would have carried a most excellent moral. 'Twould have shown... | |
 | John Gay - 1926 - 762 页
...the taste of the town. Beg. '' Through the whole piece you may observe such a similitude of anners in high and low life, that it is difficult to determine...gentlemen of the road the fine gentlemen. Had the Play remain'd, as I at first intended, it would have carried a most excellent moral. 'Twould have shown... | |
 | 1927 - 156 页
...must do, to comply with the Taste of the Town. Beggar. Through the whole Piece you may observe such a Similitude of Manners in high and low Life, that...have carried a most excellent Moral. 'Twould have shewn that the lower Sort of People have their Vices in a degree as well as the Rich : And that they... | |
 | Robert Metcalf Smith, Howard Garrett Rhoads - 1928 - 618 页
...must do to comply with the taste of the town. BEGGAR. Through the whole piece you may observe such a similitude of manners in high and low life, that...intended it would have carried a most excellent moral. I would have shown that the lower sort of people have their vices in a degree as well as the rich,... | |
 | Edgar V. Roberts - 1969 - 280 页
...do, to comply with the taste of the town. 1 5 BEGGAR. Through the whole piece you may observe such a similitude of manners in high and low life, that...road the fine gentlemen. Had the play remained as I 20 at first intended, it would have carried a most excellent moral. 'Twould have shown that the lower... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1997 - 614 页
...London, t7a8, Bt. xvi. t9-aa: 'it is difficult to determine whether lin the fashionable Vicesl the line Gentlemen imitate the Gentlemen of the Road, or the Gentlemen of the Road the fine Gentlemen.' Character is not denominated from excellence in any sort of Business or employment; it belongs solely... | |
 | John Bender - 1987 - 355 页
...Opera where, following the reprieve, the Beggar declares: Through the whole Piece you may observe such a similitude of Manners in high and low Life, that...of the Road, or the Gentlemen of the Road the fine Gentlemen.28 Gay's Beggar, for all that he serves as author/presenter of the piece, abdicates control... | |
 | Thomas M. Woodman - 1989 - 180 页
...and low. As the beggar says of Gay's greatest success: Through the whole Piece you may observe such a similitude of Manners in high and low Life that...of the Road, or the Gentlemen of the Road the fine Gentlemen.1 Through his pages parade beaux and society ladies, shepherds and criminals, whose manners... | |
 | Calhoun Winton - 1993 - 236 页
...poet/beggar underlines the point in his final speech: "Through the whole Piece you may observe such a similitude of Manners in high and low Life, that...Road, or the Gentlemen of the Road the fine Gentlemen" (III.xvi. 18-22). The sinister aspects of Macheath 's heroism are softened by the Opera's boisterous... | |
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Through the whole piece you may observe such a similitude of manners in high and low life, that it is difficult to determine whether (in the fashionable vices) the fine gentlemen imitate the gentlemen of the road, or the gentlemen of the road the fine... 
