 | 1804 - 188 pages
...to the downright pathetic : and yet he is even reproached by Caesar for wanting the Vis Comica. All the other comic writers of antiquity aim only at rendering...ridiculous, but never exalt their characters into buskined pomp, or make what Voltaire humourously calls a Trade&man't Tragedy. Yet notwithstanding this... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1806 - 492 pages
...to the downright pathetic ; and yet he is even reproached by Cassar for wanting the Vis Comica, All the other comic writers of antiquity aim only at rendering...ridiculous, but never exalt their characters into buskined pomp, or make what Voltaire humourously calls a Tradesman's Tragedy. Yet notwithstanding this... | |
 | Manual - 1809 - 324 pages
...to the downright pathetic ; and yet he is even reproached by Caesar for wauling the vis comica. All the other comic writers of antiquity aim only at rendering folly or vice ridiculous, but seldom exalt their characters into buskined pomp, or make what Voltaire humourously calls a tradesman's... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1818 - 290 pages
...to the downright pathetic; and yet he is even reproached by Caesar for wanting the Vis Comica. All the other comic writers of antiquity aim only at rendering...ridiculous, but never exalt their characters into buskined pomp, or make what Voltaire humorously calls a Tradesman's Tragedy. Yet, notwithstanding this... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1820 - 514 pages
...to the downright pathetic; and yet he is even reproached by Caesar for wanting the vis comica. All the other comic writers of antiquity aim only at rendering...ridiculous, but never exalt their characters into buskined pomp, or make whut Voltaire humorously calls a Trudi swan's Trascrdy. Yet, notwithstanding... | |
 | 1821 - 384 pages
...to the downright pathetic ; and yet he is even reproached by Caesar for wanting the vis comica. All the other comic writers of antiquity aim only at rendering...ridiculous, but never exalt their characters into buskined pomp, or make what Voltaire humorously calls a Tradesman's Tragedy. Yet, notwithstanding this... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1825 - 440 pages
...to the downright pathetic ; and yet he is even reproached by Caesar for wanting the vis comica. All the other comic writers of antiquity aim only at rendering...ridiculous, but never exalt their characters into buskined pomp, or make what Voltaire humorously calls a tradesman's tragedy. Yet, notwithstanding this... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1837 - 602 pages
...to the downright pathetic; and yet he is even reproached by Caesar for wanting the vis comlca. All other comic writers of antiquity aim only at rendering...ridiculous, but never exalt their characters into bus(1) [The comic muse, averse to tears and sighs, From tragic sorrows with abhorrence flies.] kined... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1837 - 614 pages
...to the downright pathetic ; and yet he is even reproached by Ctesar for wanting the vis comica. All other comic writers of antiquity aim only at rendering...ridiculous, but never exalt their characters into bus(1) [The comic muse, averse to tears and sighs. From tragic sorrows with abhorrence flies.] kined... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1840 - 504 pages
...to the downright pathetic ; and yet he is even reproached by Caesar for wanting the vis comica. All the other comic writers of antiquity aim only at rendering...ridiculous, but never exalt their characters into buskined pomp, or make what Voltaire humorously calls a tradesman's tragedy. •ITU. Yet notwithstanding... | |
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... run in distinct channels, and never till of late encroached upon the provinces of each other. Terence, who seems to have made the nearest approaches... 
