 | Michael Bryan - 1849 - 1000 halaman
...and from the mode of their passions, not from their having the wit of fine gentlemen: Thus there is wit in the figure of the alderman, who, when his daughter...to save her gold ring, which he is drawing gently off her finger. The thought is parallel to Moliere's, where the miser puts out one of the candles as... | |
 | Horace Walpole (4th earl of Orford.) - 1879 - 606 halaman
...and from the mode of their passions, not from their having the wit of fine gentlemen. Thus there is wit in the figure of the alderman, who, when his daughter...the candles as he is talking. Moliere, inimitable as he has proved, brought a rude theatre to perfection. Hogarth had no model to follow and improve... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Charles Gibbon - 1893 - 464 halaman
...and from the mode of their passions, not from their having the wit of fine gentlemen. Thus there is wit in the figure of the alderman, who, when his daughter...gently from her finger. The thought is parallel to Molierc's, where the miser puts oat one of the candles as he ix talking. Moliere, inimitable as he... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1895 - 660 halaman
...and from the mode of their passions, not from their having the wit of fine gentlemen. Thus there is wit in the figure of the alderman, who, when his daughter...the candles as he is talking. Moliere, inimitable as he has proved, brought a rude theatre to perfection. Hogarth had no model to follow and improve... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1895 - 670 halaman
...and from the mode of their passions, not from their having the wit of fine gentlemen. Thus there is wit in the figure of the alderman, who, when his daughter...the candles as he is talking. Moliere, inimitable as he has proved, brought a rude theatre to perfection. Hogarth had no model to follow and improve... | |
 | Paul Hyland, Olga Gomez, Francesca Greensides - 2003 - 496 halaman
...and from the mode of their passions, not from their having the wit of fine gentlemen. Thus there is wit in the figure of the alderman, who when his daughter...the candles as he is talking. Moliere, inimitable as he has proved, brought a rude theatre to perfection. Hogarth had no model to follow and improve... | |
 | Paul Hyland, Olga Gomez, Francesca Greensides - 2003 - 494 halaman
...and from the mode of their passions, not from their having the wit of fine gentlemen. Thus there is wit in the figure of the alderman, who when his daughter...is expiring in the agonies of poison, wears a face ot solicitude, hut it is to save her gold ring, which he is drawing gentlv from her finger. The thought... | |
 | 1918 - 860 halaman
...das Tragische englische Eigenart. Sie bemerkt (S. 17) zu 1 'The thought is parallel to Molière's, where the miser puts out one of the candles as he is talking1 (Wai polo, vgl. Nichols' 'Anecdotes' S. 09). MM, Blatt 6 : 'Enfin le sixième et dernier tableau... | |
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... last print of the set I have mentioned, is an ignorant rustic ; and if wit is struck out from the characters in which it is not expected, it is from their acting conformably to their situation and from the mode of their passions, not from their having... 
