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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... , in Shak- speare and the writers of the age : - but where , pray ? Dr. Johnson rejects his ming , but cannot preferve the original word , wing ming , ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL . 15 could not help declaring, that he loved ...
... , in Shak- speare and the writers of the age : - but where , pray ? Dr. Johnson rejects his ming , but cannot preferve the original word , wing ming , ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL . 15 could not help declaring, that he loved ...
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... original word , wing , without allowing it to be a metaphor taken from hawking ; and this Mr. Steevens , I think , very substantially proves . Helen's meaning , then , may be thus plainly deduced : " The agreement , which is fettled ...
... original word , wing , without allowing it to be a metaphor taken from hawking ; and this Mr. Steevens , I think , very substantially proves . Helen's meaning , then , may be thus plainly deduced : " The agreement , which is fettled ...
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... original , by fome writers ; and particularly by Mr. Seward , a very able commentator upon Beaumont and Fletcher , as a character second only to the inimitable Fat Knight . That Beffus might , in his own days , be esteemed as a juft ...
... original , by fome writers ; and particularly by Mr. Seward , a very able commentator upon Beaumont and Fletcher , as a character second only to the inimitable Fat Knight . That Beffus might , in his own days , be esteemed as a juft ...
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... original . The coward , affuming the dignity of calm courage , was , I believe , new to our ftage ; at least , I can remember nothing like him . From Boba- dil , Congreve formed his Noll Bluff , a part most admirably acted by Ben Jonfon ...
... original . The coward , affuming the dignity of calm courage , was , I believe , new to our ftage ; at least , I can remember nothing like him . From Boba- dil , Congreve formed his Noll Bluff , a part most admirably acted by Ben Jonfon ...
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... original actors as were fcarce ever col- lected before , the antiquated phrase of old Ben appeared fo ftrange , and was fo oppofite to the taste of the audience , that he found it no easy matter to make them relish the play . However ...
... original actors as were fcarce ever col- lected before , the antiquated phrase of old Ben appeared fo ftrange , and was fo oppofite to the taste of the audience , that he found it no easy matter to make them relish the play . However ...
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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.