Dramatic Miscellanies: Consisting of Critical Observations on Several Plays of Shakespeare: With a Review of His Principal Characters, and Those of Various Eminent Writers, as Represented by Mr. Garrick and Other Celebrated Comedians. With Anecdotes of Dramatic Poets, Actors, &c, 第 2 卷The author, 1783 |
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... Jonson , and his friends Beaumont and Fletcher , very feldom employed this merry agent in their plays . Their claffical learning placed them , it is thought , above the use of fo mean an inftrument . It may be fo but , I believe , their ...
... Jonson , and his friends Beaumont and Fletcher , very feldom employed this merry agent in their plays . Their claffical learning placed them , it is thought , above the use of fo mean an inftrument . It may be fo but , I believe , their ...
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... Jonson's panegyric of " Queen Elizabeth . His po- etafter . —Quarrel with the players . — Whom be fatirizes . - Conjectures concerning them . E VERY Man in his Humour is foun- ded on fuch follies and paffions as are perpetually incident ...
... Jonson's panegyric of " Queen Elizabeth . His po- etafter . —Quarrel with the players . — Whom be fatirizes . - Conjectures concerning them . E VERY Man in his Humour is foun- ded on fuch follies and paffions as are perpetually incident ...
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... Jonson in his twenty - fourth . Notwithstanding the friendship which Shakspeare had manifested to Ben , by pa- tronizing his play , yet the reader will find that the prologue is nothing less than a fatirical picture of several of ...
... Jonson in his twenty - fourth . Notwithstanding the friendship which Shakspeare had manifested to Ben , by pa- tronizing his play , yet the reader will find that the prologue is nothing less than a fatirical picture of several of ...
第 60 頁
... Jonson's play , called Every Man in his Humour . [ The actor is fupposed to enter with reluctance . ] Intreaty shall not ferve , nor violence , To make me fpeak in such a play's defence . A play , where wit and humour do agree To break ...
... Jonson's play , called Every Man in his Humour . [ The actor is fupposed to enter with reluctance . ] Intreaty shall not ferve , nor violence , To make me fpeak in such a play's defence . A play , where wit and humour do agree To break ...
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... Jonson was most apt to allude to local customs and temporary follies . Mr. Garrick likewise added a scene of his own . Notwithstanding Notwithstanding all the care he had be- ftowed in pruning 64 DRAMATIC MISCELLANIES .
... Jonson was most apt to allude to local customs and temporary follies . Mr. Garrick likewise added a scene of his own . Notwithstanding Notwithstanding all the care he had be- ftowed in pruning 64 DRAMATIC MISCELLANIES .
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第 315 頁 - tis fittest. Cor. How does my royal lord? How fares your majesty? Lear. You do me wrong, to take me out o' the grave. — Thou art a soul in bliss ; but I am bound Upon a wheel of fire, that mine own tears Do scald like molten lead.
第 20 頁 - element,' but the word is over-worn. \Exit. Vio. This fellow is wise enough to play the fool ; And to do that well craves a kind of wit : He must observe their mood on whom he jests, The quality of persons, and the time, And, like the haggard, check at every feather That comes before his eye.
第 147 頁 - What hands are here ? ha ! they pluck out mine eyes. Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood Clean from my hand ? No, this my hand will rather The multitudinous seas incarnadine, Making the green one red.
第 253 頁 - He only, in a general honest thought, And common good to all, made one of them. His life was gentle, and the elements So mix'd in him that Nature might stand up And say to all the world, 'This was a man!
第 263 頁 - I was many years ago so shocked by Cordelia's death, that I know not whether I ever endured to read again the last scenes of the play till I undertook to revise them as an editor.
第 278 頁 - Garrick rendered the curse so terribly affecting to the audience, that, during his utterance of it, they seemed to shrink from it as from a blast of lightning. His preparation for it was extremely affecting; his throwing away his crutch, kneeling on one knee, clasping his hands together, and lifting his eyes towards heaven, presented a picture worthy the pencil of a Raphael.
第 262 頁 - A play in which the wicked prosper, and the virtuous miscarry, may doubtless be good, because it is a just representation of the common events of human life ; but since all reasonable beings naturally love justice, I cannot easily be persuaded, that the observation of justice makes a play worse ; or, that if other excellences are equal, the audience will not always rise better pleased from the final triumph of persecuted virtue.
第 279 頁 - His pauses and broken interruptions of speech, of which he was extremely enamored, sometimes to a degree of impropriety, were at times too inartificially repeated ; nor did he give that terror to the whole which the great poet intended should predominate. THOMAS DAVIES : ' Dramatic Miscellanies,
第 351 頁 - ANT. Come on, my soldier! Our hearts and arms are still the same: I long Once more to meet our foes, that thou and I, Like Time and Death, marching before our troops, May taste fate to 'em; mow 'em out a passage, And, ent'ring where the foremost squadrons yield, Begin the noble harvest of the field.