 | Sir Henry Craik - English literature - 1917 - 648 pages
...a mountebank's stage, or to be masters of the ceremonies in a bear-garden : yet these are they who have the most admirers. But it often happens, to their...conversation with men of judgment) they soon forsake them." I must not dismiss this subject without observing that as Mr. Lock in the passage above mentioned has... | |
 | John Dryden - Criticism - 1926 - 344 pages
...a mountebank's stage, or to be masters of the cere5 monies in a bear-garden. Yet these are they who have the most admirers. But it often happens, to their...conversation with men of judgment), they soon forsake 10 them : and when the torrent from the mountains falls no more, the swelling writer is reduced into... | |
 | John Dryden - 1926 - 342 pages
...a mountebank's stage, or to be masters of the cere5 monies in a bear-garden. Yet these are they who have the most admirers. But it often happens, to their...conversation with men of judgment), they soon forsake 10 them : and when the torrent from the mountains falls no more, the swelling writer is reduced into... | |
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... of two pounds per annum in Parnassus, and therefore are not privileged to poll. Their authors are of the same level, fit to represent them on a mountebank's stage, or to be masters of the ceremonies in a beargarden : yet these are they who have the... 
