Names of dramas: A-LLongman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1812 |
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... founded on a ry affecting story in Xenophon's vropædia . Never acted . 8. ABRADATES AND PANTHEA . rag . Acted by the scholars of . Paul's school in 1770. Not inted . The story from Xeno . non . It was written by Mr. Ro- erts , brother ...
... founded on a ry affecting story in Xenophon's vropædia . Never acted . 8. ABRADATES AND PANTHEA . rag . Acted by the scholars of . Paul's school in 1770. Not inted . The story from Xeno . non . It was written by Mr. Ro- erts , brother ...
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... founded story in the Spartan history . W ther the author was only war by the spirit of a particular pa or that he chose in this piec givevent to his resentments aga his countrymen for the rig wherewith they had persecu him on account of ...
... founded story in the Spartan history . W ther the author was only war by the spirit of a particular pa or that he chose in this piec givevent to his resentments aga his countrymen for the rig wherewith they had persecu him on account of ...
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... founded on a he Spartan history . Whe- author was only warmed irit of a particular party , ne chose in this piece to to his resentments against trymen for the rigour hthey had persecuted count of his former tra- Douglas , it is ...
... founded on a he Spartan history . Whe- author was only warmed irit of a particular party , ne chose in this piece to to his resentments against trymen for the rigour hthey had persecuted count of his former tra- Douglas , it is ...
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... founded on Terend ton - timorumenos . It was a an excellent play in the and was acted at the Bla with consitlerable applau 158. ALL FOR FAME Peep at the Times . Comic by Andrew Cherry . This formed , or rather recited , Mountain's ...
... founded on Terend ton - timorumenos . It was a an excellent play in the and was acted at the Bla with consitlerable applau 158. ALL FOR FAME Peep at the Times . Comic by Andrew Cherry . This formed , or rather recited , Mountain's ...
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... founded on Terence's Heau- timorumenos . It was accounted excellent play in those times , was acted at the Black Friars considerable applause . SS . ALL FOR FAME ; or , A at the Times . Comic Sketch , ndrew Cherry . This was per- ed ...
... founded on Terence's Heau- timorumenos . It was accounted excellent play in those times , was acted at the Black Friars considerable applause . SS . ALL FOR FAME ; or , A at the Times . Comic Sketch , ndrew Cherry . This was per- ed ...
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Página 52 - We were all at the first night of it, in great uncertainty of the event; till we were very much encouraged by overhearing the Duke of Argyle, who sat in the next box to us, say, 'it will do — it must do! — I see it in the eyes of them!
Página 348 - ... fill the mind with a perpetual tumult of indignation, pity, and hope. There is no scene which does not contribute to the aggravation of the distress or conduct of the action, and scarce a line which does not conduce to the progress of the scene. So powerful is the current of the poet's imagination that the mind which once ventures within it is hurried irresistibly along.
Página 262 - The apparition left the regions of the dead to little purpose ; the revenge which he demands is not obtained, but by the death of him that was required to take it ; and the gratification, which would arise from the destruction of an usurper and a murderer, is abated by the untimely death of Ophelia, the young, the beautiful, the harmless, and the pious.
Página 16 - True,' representing some principal pieces of the reign of Henry VIII, which was set forth with many extraordinary circumstances of pomp and majesty, even to the matting of the stage; the Knights of the order with their Georges and Garter, the guards with their embroidered coats and the like: sufficient, in truth, within a while, to make greatness very familiar, if not ridiculous.
Página 201 - Statutes in that case made and provided, and against the peace of our Sovereign Lord the King, his crown, and dignity.
Página 83 - Cato it has been not unjustly determined, that it is rather a poem in dialogue than a drama, rather a succession of just sentiments in elegant language, than a representation of natural affections, or of any state probable or possible in human life. Nothing here excites or asswages emotion; here is no magical power of raising phantastick terror or wild anxiety.
Página 329 - The Troublesome Raigne of John, King of England, with the Discoverie of King Richard Cordelion's base Son, vulgarly named the Bastard Fawconbridge : also the Death of King John at Swinstead Abbey.
Página 287 - Falling in the other day at a victualling-house near the house of peers, I heard the maid come down and tell the landlady at the bar, that my lord bishop swore he would throw her out at window, if she did not bring up more mild beer, and that my lord duke would have a double mug of purl.
Página 262 - ... the natural sentiments of man. New characters appear from time to time in continual succession, exhibiting various forms of life and particular modes of conversation. The pretended madness of Hamlet causes much mirth, the mournful distraction of Ophelia fills the heart with tenderness, and every personage produces the effect intended, from the apparition that in the first act chills the blood with horror, to the fop in the last, that exposes affectation to just contempt.
Página 124 - Security wherein was personated a King or some great Prince with his Courtiers of...