 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808 - 474 pages
...; And men, without their parts, can hardly play. If they, through sickness, seldom did appear, Pity the virgins of each theatre : For, at both houses,...whose cost, In one such sickness, nine whole months are lost Their stay, he fears, has ruined what he writ: Long waiting both disables love and wit. They... | |
 | John Dryden - 1854 - 324 pages
...; And men, without their parts, can hardly play. If they, through sickness, seldom did appear, Pity the virgins of each theatre : For at both houses,...whose cost, In one such sickness, nine whole months are lost. Their stay, he fears, has ruined what he writ : Long waiting both disables love and wit.... | |
 | William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone - 1855 - 780 pages
...Davis" — Think him not duller for the year's delay; He was prepared — the women were away. .... Pity the virgins of each theatre, For at both houses, 'twas...sickly year ! And pity us, your servants, to whose cost lu one such sickness nine к/iole months were lost. Mr. Cunningham says hereupon — " The poet's meaning... | |
 | 1855 - 784 pages
...Davis" — Think him not duller for the year's delay; He was prepared — the women were away Pity the virgins of each theatre, For at both houses, 'twas a sickly year ! And pity us, your servants, to whoso cost In one such sickness тле whole months were lost. Mr. Cunningham says hereupon — " The... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1855 - 590 pages
...Davis,"— Think him not duller for the year's delay ; He was prepared— the women were away. Pity lhe virgins of each theatre, For at both houses, 'twas a sickly year ! And pity us, your servants, ¡o whose cost In one such sickness nine whole months were lost. Mr. Cunningham says hereupon — "The... | |
 | John Dryden - 1897 - 764 pages
...was in due time made Duke of St. Alban's. The cause of delay is alluded to in Dryden's Epilogue : " And pity us, your servants, to whose cost, ^ In one such sickness nine whole months are lost. There is a story that Charles became enamoured of Nell Gwyn a year before, when he saw her... | |
 | 1845 - 778 pages
...away ; And men without tbeir parts can hardly play. If they through sickness seldom did appear, Pity the virgins of each theatre ; For at both houses 'twas...In one such sickness nine whole months were lost." When Dryden was ready Nelly was near her lying-in. Nine whole mouths were in this way lost; so that... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1883 - 494 pages
...* And men, without their parts, can hardly play. If they, through sickness, seldom did appear, Pity the virgins of each theatre : For, at both houses,...whose cost, In one such sickness, nine whole months are lost. • [The women were Nell Gwyn, Mrs. James, and Mrs. Davis, all of whom were " away " in 1669,... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1883 - 490 pages
...;* And men, without their parts, can hardly play. If they, through sickness, seldom did appear, Pity the virgins of each theatre : For, at both houses,...whose cost, In one such sickness, nine whole months are lost. EPILOGUE. ^ 118 EPILOGUE. Their stay, he fears, has ruined what he writ : Long waiting both... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1883 - 494 pages
...away;* And men, without their parts, can hardly play. If they, through sickness, seldom did appear, Pity the virgins of each theatre : For, at both houses,...whose cost, In one such sickness, nine whole months are lost. Their stay, he fears, has ruined what he writ : Long waiting both disables love and wit.... | |
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Think him not duller for this year's delay; He was prepared, the women were away; And men, without their parts, can hardly play. If they, through sickness, seldom did appear, Pity the virgins of each theatre: For, at both houses 'twas a sickly year! And... 
