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, Volumen2The author, 1783 |
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... reasons against it , you are fo bewitched as not to difcern their vices , though ever fo grofs , through the inchanted veil which they throw over them . Dr. Swift was , of all men , if we may believe himself , the most cautious in the ...
... reasons against it , you are fo bewitched as not to difcern their vices , though ever fo grofs , through the inchanted veil which they throw over them . Dr. Swift was , of all men , if we may believe himself , the most cautious in the ...
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... reasons , above all others , I believe , prevailed on the manager to drop this play . The King's ftrange and contradictory agi- tations of mind are no otherwife to be ac- counted for than from his ardent passion to a lady whom he ...
... reasons , above all others , I believe , prevailed on the manager to drop this play . The King's ftrange and contradictory agi- tations of mind are no otherwife to be ac- counted for than from his ardent passion to a lady whom he ...
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... reason . Smith's Phædra and Hippolitus was coldly enter- tained , at the first acting of it , with all the powers of Betterton and Booth , Barry and Oldfield , to fupport it ; and could never win upon an audience in a revival . But ...
... reason . Smith's Phædra and Hippolitus was coldly enter- tained , at the first acting of it , with all the powers of Betterton and Booth , Barry and Oldfield , to fupport it ; and could never win upon an audience in a revival . But ...
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... reason , than those who are more temperate and fedate . Act V. Scene III . KING . For we are old , and , on our quickest decrees , The inaudible and noiseless foot of time Steals ere we can effect them . Dr. Johnfon , in his life of ...
... reason , than those who are more temperate and fedate . Act V. Scene III . KING . For we are old , and , on our quickest decrees , The inaudible and noiseless foot of time Steals ere we can effect them . Dr. Johnfon , in his life of ...
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... reason to conjecture , that the acting of Every Man in his Humour must have been attended with certain cir- cumstances unpleafing to the author , or he would not have delivered his next play , As you find it , ' to be acted by children ...
... reason to conjecture , that the acting of Every Man in his Humour must have been attended with certain cir- cumstances unpleafing to the author , or he would not have delivered his next play , As you find it , ' to be acted by children ...
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Página 315 - 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.
Página 20 - 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.
Página 147 - 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.
Página 253 - 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!
Página 263 - 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.
Página 278 - 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.
Página 262 - 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.
Página 279 - 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,
Página 351 - 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.