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, Том 2The author, 1783 |
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... shall not deny ; but this I will venture to fay , that he is fo widely different from any character we fee at present , that no comic poet of this age will undertake his revival , even with confiderable alterations ; he is fo ...
... shall not deny ; but this I will venture to fay , that he is fo widely different from any character we fee at present , that no comic poet of this age will undertake his revival , even with confiderable alterations ; he is fo ...
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... shall have my choice of peasants or country clowns , and pick out a fon from them , than marry my daughter to fo worthless a fellow as this , whofe knell I would most willingly ring . ' I do not pre- fume to give this as the infallible ...
... shall have my choice of peasants or country clowns , and pick out a fon from them , than marry my daughter to fo worthless a fellow as this , whofe knell I would most willingly ring . ' I do not pre- fume to give this as the infallible ...
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... 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 all practis'd laws of comedy . The fcene , what more abfurd ! in England lies : No gods defcend ; no dancing ...
... 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 all practis'd laws of comedy . The fcene , what more abfurd ! in England lies : No gods defcend ; no dancing ...
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... Shall find applaufe on this corrupted stage . But , if you pay the great arrears of praife , So long fince due to my much - injur'd plays , From all paft crimes I first will fet you free , And then inspire fome one to write like me ...
... Shall find applaufe on this corrupted stage . But , if you pay the great arrears of praife , So long fince due to my much - injur'd plays , From all paft crimes I first will fet you free , And then inspire fome one to write like me ...
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... Shall he dwindle , peak , and pine . The Highlands of Scotland seem to have been the favourite refort of witches and inchanters , where they are fupposed to have performed their most powerful charms and diabolical incantations ; and ...
... Shall he dwindle , peak , and pine . The Highlands of Scotland seem to have been the favourite refort of witches and inchanters , where they are fupposed to have performed their most powerful charms and diabolical incantations ; and ...
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Страница 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.
Страница 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.
Страница 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.
Страница 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!
Страница 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.
Страница 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.
Страница 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.
Страница 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,
Страница 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.