Names of dramas: A-LLongman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1812 |
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... PRINTED , AND OBS TOGETHER AN INTRODUCTORY VIEW OF T OF THE BRITISH S ORIGINALLY COMPILED , TO DAVID ERSKIN CONTINUED THENCE ISAAC REED And brought down to the End of Novem Additions and Improveme STEPHEN IN THREE V VOL . LONDO PRINTED ...
... PRINTED , AND OBS TOGETHER AN INTRODUCTORY VIEW OF T OF THE BRITISH S ORIGINALLY COMPILED , TO DAVID ERSKIN CONTINUED THENCE ISAAC REED And brought down to the End of Novem Additions and Improveme STEPHEN IN THREE V VOL . LONDO PRINTED ...
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... Printed at New p York . 2. ABDALLA . Trag . by J. Delap , A D. D. Printed at Lewes . 8vo . C 1803. Never acted . If the dic- b tion of this piece be not of the 4 highest order , the construction of p the fable is certainly interesting ...
... Printed at New p York . 2. ABDALLA . Trag . by J. Delap , A D. D. Printed at Lewes . 8vo . C 1803. Never acted . If the dic- b tion of this piece be not of the 4 highest order , the construction of p the fable is certainly interesting ...
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... printed in the volume of her Poems and Plays . . 1799. It possesses consider- merit ; the language is highly ical , and the characters are discriminated : it was , how- , offered in vain to the mana- of the winter theatres . 3. ADELAIDE ...
... printed in the volume of her Poems and Plays . . 1799. It possesses consider- merit ; the language is highly ical , and the characters are discriminated : it was , how- , offered in vain to the mana- of the winter theatres . 3. ADELAIDE ...
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... printed , we know not . 130. ALEXANDER AND THEKING EGYPT . A mock Play , as it is ced by the mummers every ristmas . 4to . Printed at New- stle , 1788 . 131. ALEXANDER THE GREAT , T. Ozell . Translated from Ra- e . 12mo . 1714 . 132 ...
... printed , we know not . 130. ALEXANDER AND THEKING EGYPT . A mock Play , as it is ced by the mummers every ristmas . 4to . Printed at New- stle , 1788 . 131. ALEXANDER THE GREAT , T. Ozell . Translated from Ra- e . 12mo . 1714 . 132 ...
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... printed . 151. ALGONAH . Com . Opera , by James Cobb . Acted at Drury Lane , for Mrs. Billington's bene- it , April 30 , 1902 , but not printed .. It is an alteration from The Cherokee , with some new music by Kelly . Songs only pub ...
... printed . 151. ALGONAH . Com . Opera , by James Cobb . Acted at Drury Lane , for Mrs. Billington's bene- it , April 30 , 1902 , but not printed .. It is an alteration from The Cherokee , with some new music by Kelly . Songs only pub ...
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Acted at Covent Acted at Drury Æschylus afterwards alteration appear applause audience Ben Jonson benefit borrowed called cess character Charles Cibber comedy comic Covent Garden dedicated dialogue Dibdin Dram drama Drury Lane Dryden Dublin Duke Earl edition English Entertainment Farce founded French Friars Garrick Harlequin Haymarket Henry Henry Chettle honour humour incidents James James Shirley John Johnson King Lady late Lincoln's Inn Fields London Lord LOVE LOVE'S LOVERS Masque ment merit Never acted nights Opera Pant performed piece Plautus play plot is taken Poem poet Prince printed prologue Queen racter Richard Richard Cumberland Robert Jephson Rose Theatre satire says scene lies Servants Shakspeare Shakspeare's songs stage story success Theatre Royal Thomas thor three acts tion Trag tragedy Tragi-Com trans translated verse writ writer written
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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...