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, Volume 2The author, 1783 |
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... merit , but was too apt to indulge him- felf in fuch an extenfion of voice as ap- proached to vociferation . He prided him- felf so much in the harmony and sweetness of his tones , that he was heard to say , in a kind of rapture , after ...
... merit , but was too apt to indulge him- felf in fuch an extenfion of voice as ap- proached to vociferation . He prided him- felf so much in the harmony and sweetness of his tones , that he was heard to say , in a kind of rapture , after ...
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... merit , and gave fo much general fatisfaction to the public , that , in spite of the superstition of some of the play- ers , who wished and entreated that it might be discontinued , upon Mr. Delane's under- taking to act the King after ...
... merit , and gave fo much general fatisfaction to the public , that , in spite of the superstition of some of the play- ers , who wished and entreated that it might be discontinued , upon Mr. Delane's under- taking to act the King after ...
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... merit , and not abfolutely abandoned , may be reconciled to conveniency , if not ap- proved by reafon . But Parolles was marked with so many vices , that we can hardly juf- tify the countenance given him by his fu periors . But there is ...
... merit , and not abfolutely abandoned , may be reconciled to conveniency , if not ap- proved by reafon . But Parolles was marked with so many vices , that we can hardly juf- tify the countenance given him by his fu periors . But there is ...
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... merit of Every Man in his Hu- Ben Jonfon's language . — Kitely and Bobadil . - Mafter Stephen and Slender . -Clement , Downright , and Brainworm . Knowell . Anecdote of Shakspeare and H Jonfon . Humour . Prologue to Every Man in his ...
... merit of Every Man in his Hu- Ben Jonfon's language . — Kitely and Bobadil . - Mafter Stephen and Slender . -Clement , Downright , and Brainworm . Knowell . Anecdote of Shakspeare and H Jonfon . Humour . Prologue to Every Man in his ...
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... merits , and to them we truft . When any fafts or holidays defer The public labours of the theatre , We ride not forth , although the day be fair , On ambling tit , to take the suburb air ; But with our authors meet , and spend that ...
... merits , and to them we truft . When any fafts or holidays defer The public labours of the theatre , We ride not forth , although the day be fair , On ambling tit , to take the suburb air ; But with our authors meet , and spend that ...
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Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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!
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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,
Page 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.