Names of dramas: A-LLongman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1812 |
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الصفحة 2
... founded on a very affecting story in Xenophon's Cyropædia . Never acted . 8. ABRADATES AND PANTHEA . Trag . Acted by the scholars of St. Paul's school in 1770. Not printed . The story from Xeno . phon . It was written by Mr. Ro berts ...
... founded on a very affecting story in Xenophon's Cyropædia . Never acted . 8. ABRADATES AND PANTHEA . Trag . Acted by the scholars of St. Paul's school in 1770. Not printed . The story from Xeno . phon . It was written by Mr. Ro berts ...
الصفحة 8
... founded on a story in the Spartan history . Whe- ther the author was only warmed by the spirit of a particular party , or that he chose in this piece to give vent to his resentments against his countrymen for the rigour wherewith they ...
... founded on a story in the Spartan history . Whe- ther the author was only warmed by the spirit of a particular party , or that he chose in this piece to give vent to his resentments against his countrymen for the rigour wherewith they ...
الصفحة 11
... founded on a story by Madame Genlis , which was more closely translated by Mr. Hoare , under the title of The Captive of Spils- burg . This piece has usually , but erroneously , been ascribed to the pen of Mr. Cobb . 105. ALBERT AND ...
... founded on a story by Madame Genlis , which was more closely translated by Mr. Hoare , under the title of The Captive of Spils- burg . This piece has usually , but erroneously , been ascribed to the pen of Mr. Cobb . 105. ALBERT AND ...
الصفحة 16
... founded on Terence's Heau- ton - timorumenos . It was accounted an excellent play in those times , and was acted at the Black Friars with considerable applause . 158. ALL FOR FAME ; or , A Peep at the Times . Comic Sketch , by Andrew ...
... founded on Terence's Heau- ton - timorumenos . It was accounted an excellent play in those times , and was acted at the Black Friars with considerable applause . 158. ALL FOR FAME ; or , A Peep at the Times . Comic Sketch , by Andrew ...
الصفحة 20
... founded on Dryden's Conquest of Granada ; but the author has judi- ciously avoided the incongruities and extravagancies of his prede- cessor , and has rendered his piece at once pleasing and pro- bable . 186. ALMANZOR AND ALMA- HIDE ...
... founded on Dryden's Conquest of Granada ; but the author has judi- ciously avoided the incongruities and extravagancies of his prede- cessor , and has rendered his piece at once pleasing and pro- bable . 186. ALMANZOR AND ALMA- HIDE ...
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الصفحة 54 - We were all at the first night of it, in great uncertainty of the event; till we were very much encouraged by overhearing the Duke of Argyle, who sat in the next box to us, say, 'it will do — it must do! — I see it in the eyes of them!
الصفحة 346 - ... fill the mind with a perpetual tumult of indignation, pity, and hope. There is no scene which does not contribute to the aggravation of the distress or conduct of the action, and scarce a line which does not conduce to the progress of the scene. So powerful is the current of the poet's imagination that the mind which once ventures within it is hurried irresistibly along.
الصفحة 266 - The apparition left the regions of the dead to little purpose ; the revenge which he demands is not obtained, but by the death of him that was required to take it ; and the gratification, which would arise from the destruction of an usurper and a murderer, is abated by the untimely death of Ophelia, the young, the beautiful, the harmless, and the pious.
الصفحة 18 - True,' representing some principal pieces of the reign of Henry VIII, which was set forth with many extraordinary circumstances of pomp and majesty, even to the matting of the stage; the Knights of the order with their Georges and Garter, the guards with their embroidered coats and the like: sufficient, in truth, within a while, to make greatness very familiar, if not ridiculous.
الصفحة 205 - Statutes in that case made and provided, and against the peace of our Sovereign Lord the King, his crown, and dignity.
الصفحة 82 - Cato it has been not unjustly determined, that it is rather a poem in dialogue than a drama, rather a succession of just sentiments in elegant language, than a representation of natural affections, or of any state probable or possible in human life. Nothing here excites or asswages emotion; here is no magical power of raising phantastick terror or wild anxiety.
الصفحة 327 - The Troublesome Raigne of John, King of England, with the Discoverie of King Richard Cordelion's base Son, vulgarly named the Bastard Fawconbridge : also the Death of King John at Swinstead Abbey.
الصفحة 291 - Falling in the other day at a victualling-house near the house of peers, I heard the maid come down and tell the landlady at the bar, that my lord bishop swore he would throw her out at window, if she did not bring up more mild beer, and that my lord duke would have a double mug of purl.
الصفحة 266 - ... the natural sentiments of man. New characters appear from time to time in continual succession, exhibiting various forms of life and particular modes of conversation. The pretended madness of Hamlet causes much mirth, the mournful distraction of Ophelia fills the heart with tenderness, and every personage produces the effect intended, from the apparition that in the first act chills the blood with horror, to the fop in the last, that exposes affectation to just contempt.
الصفحة 128 - Security wherein was personated a King or some great Prince with his Courtiers of...