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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... thought , above the use of fo mean an inftrument . It may be fo but , I believe , their pieces did not fucceed the better for their contempt of the public taste . The stage was then in its infancy , nor could the people , all at once ...
... thought , above the use of fo mean an inftrument . It may be fo but , I believe , their pieces did not fucceed the better for their contempt of the public taste . The stage was then in its infancy , nor could the people , all at once ...
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... thought . the title carried an objection . The words , King and no King , they faid , would make an odd appearance in the bills , more espe- cially as a young and beloved prince had juft afcended the throne of his ancestors . Others ...
... thought . the title carried an objection . The words , King and no King , they faid , would make an odd appearance in the bills , more espe- cially as a young and beloved prince had juft afcended the throne of his ancestors . Others ...
第 44 頁
... thought the impropriety of the fto- ry , on which the play was founded , was a great defect ; but this objection could have fmall weight , as the plots of almost all our old dramatifts are built upon roman- ces , or hiftories of very ...
... thought the impropriety of the fto- ry , on which the play was founded , was a great defect ; but this objection could have fmall weight , as the plots of almost all our old dramatifts are built upon roman- ces , or hiftories of very ...
第 47 頁
... thoughts of reviving King and no King , than that he fhould after- wards withdraw it . It had been said that Mr. Garrick had once made a promife to a gentleman , re- spectable for elegance of taste and polite- nefs of manners , to act ...
... thoughts of reviving King and no King , than that he fhould after- wards withdraw it . It had been said that Mr. Garrick had once made a promife to a gentleman , re- spectable for elegance of taste and polite- nefs of manners , to act ...
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... thought on the unconquerable power of time : He that runs against time has an antagonist not subject to ca- fualties . ' I DE M. This ring was mine , and , when I gave it Helen , I bade her , if her fortune ever ftood Neceffitated to ...
... thought on the unconquerable power of time : He that runs against time has an antagonist not subject to ca- fualties . ' I DE M. This ring was mine , and , when I gave it Helen , I bade her , if her fortune ever ftood Neceffitated to ...
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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.