The Companion to the Play-house: Or, An Historical Account of All the Dramatic Writers (and Their Works) that Have Appeared in Great Britain and Ireland, from the Commencement of Our Theatrical Exhibitions, Down to the Present Year 1764. Composed in the Form of a Dictionary, المجلد 1T. Becket and P.A. Dehondt, 1764 - 724 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة xxxiii - Proof of this Excellence. But, in Confequence of the Cuftom of tracing the Events of a Play minutely from a Novel, the Authors were fometimes led to reprefent a mere human Creature in Circumftances not quite confonant to Nature, of a Difpofition rather wild and extravagant, and in both Cafes more efpecially repugnant to mO:dern, dern Ideas.
الصفحة xxiv - ... pay than any of his predecessors : he would laugh with them over a bottle, and bite them in their bargains : he kept them poor, that they might not be able to rebel ; and sometimes merry, that they might not think of it : all their articles of agreement had a clause in them that he was sure to creep out at, viz.
الصفحة x - The country people flock from all sides many miles off, to hear and see it. For they have therein devils and devices, to delight as well the eye as the ear.
الصفحة 11 - ... but added, that he fancied his case not to be quite so desperate as he seemed to imagine, for that indeed he had taken no care to get himself excepted in the articles of peace, and yet he could not help thinking that he had done the French almost as much damage as Mr. Dennis himself.
الصفحة xxviii - Compliment, been ftiled the Beft Commentator on his Works : But have you not, like other Commentators, contracted a narrow, exclufive, Veneration of your Author ? Has not the Contemplation of...
الصفحة xxxi - Comedy, but rather an indigefted jumble of every fpecies thrown together. This charge muft be confefled to be true : but upon examination it will, perhaps, be found of lefs confequence than is generally imagined. Thefe Dramatick Tales, for fo we may beft ftile fuch Plays, have often occafioned much pleafure to the Reader and Spectator, which could not poffibly have been conveyed to them by any other vehicle. Many an interefting Story, which, from the diverfity of its circumftances, cannot be regularly...
الصفحة 11 - Nay, so far did he carry this apprehension, that when the Congress for the peace of Utrecht was in agitation, he waited on the Duke of Marlborough (who had formerly been his patron) to entreat his interest with the plenipotentiaries, that they should not acquiesce to his being given up.
الصفحة xlii - I am fare, will perufe thofe Works with Pleafure in the Clofet, though they lofe the Satisfaction of feeing them reprefented on the Stage : Nay, fhould they, together with you, concur in determining that fuch Pieces are unfit to be...
الصفحة xxx - Tranfactionsof a whole Hiftory are, without offence, begun and compleated in lefs than three hours ; and we are agreeably wafted by the Chorus, or oftener without fo much ceremony, from one end of the world to another. It is very true, that it was the general Practice of our old Writers, to found their Pieces on fome foreign Novel ; and it feemed to be their chief aim to VOL.
الصفحة xlii - Gentleman, who tas not been prefent at the Reprefentation, wonders with what• his London Friends have been fo highly entertained, and is as much perplexed at the Town-manner of Writing as Mr. Smith in The Rehearfal. The Excellencies of our old Writers are, on the contrary, not confined to Time and Place, but always bear about them the Evidences of true Genius.