Some Account of the English Stage: From the Restoration in 1660 to 1830, المجلد 1H.E. Carrington, 1832 |
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1st act 3d act 4th act actor altered Antonio appears Barry Behn Bessus Betterton borrowed Cæsar called Cardinal character Charles the 2d Cibber Comedy comic Court Crown daughter Davenant disguised Downes says Dryden Duke of Guise Duke of York Duke's Company Dutchess Earl Edipus Emperour enters Epilogue falls in love father Fletcher French friends Gillow gives Griffin Gwyn Haines Harris Hart honour humour Jevon Julius Cæsar killed Killegrew King King's Company Kynaston Lacy Lady Langbaine says last scene Leigh licensed Lord Lord Shaftesbury Lovers Malone marry Medbourne Mohun Mountfort Nell Gwyn Nokes old plays original Othello Pepys says Percival performers persons plot Poet pretends Prince printed probably Prologue Queen racter Revenge revived rhyme Sandford scene lies seems Shadwell Shakspeare Shakspeare's Smith spoken stage supposed tells terton Theatre Titus Andronicus Tragedy Tyrannick Love Underhill Whigs whole wife Williams Wiltshire Wintershall woman written young
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الصفحة 6 - Now ye shall have three ladies walk to gather flowers, and then we must believe the stage to be a garden. By and by we hear news of shipwreck in the same place, and then we are to blame if we accept it not for a rock. Upon the back of that comes out a hideous monster with fire and smoke, and then the miserable beholders are bound to take it for a cave. While in the meantime two armies fly in, represented with four swords and bucklers, and then what hard heart will not receive it for a pitched field?
الصفحة 92 - ... a perpetual model of encomiastic criticism ; exact without minuteness, and lofty without exaggeration. The praise lavished by Longinus, on the attestation of the heroes of Marathon, by Demosthenes, fades away before it. In a few lines is exhibited a character so extensive in its comprehension, and so curious in its limitations, that nothing can be added, diminished, or reformed ; nor can the editors and admirers of...
الصفحة 427 - OF a tall stature, and of sable hue, Much like the son of Kish, that lofty Jew, Twelve years complete he suffered in exile, And kept his father's asses all the while...
الصفحة 91 - He was the man who of all modern, and perhaps ancient poets, had the largest and most comprehensive soul. All the images of nature were still present to him, and he drew them not laboriously, but luckily: when he describes anything, you more than see it, you feel it too.
الصفحة 91 - Wit, and language, and humour also in some measure, we had before him ; but something of art was wanting to the drama, till he came.
الصفحة 90 - Jonson derived from particular persons, they made it not their business to describe; they represented all the passions very lively, but above all, love. I am apt to believe the...
الصفحة 153 - Near these a Nursery erects its head, Where queens are form'd and future heroes bred; Where unfledg'd actors learn to laugh and cry, Where infant punks their tender voices try, And little Maximins the gods defy.
الصفحة 92 - I cannot say he is every where alike ; were he so, I should do him injury to compare him with the greatest of mankind. He is many times flat, insipid ; his comic wit degenerating into clenches, his serious swelling into bombast. But he is always great, when some great occasion is presented to him...
الصفحة 91 - He is many times flat and insipid; his comic wit degenerating into clenches, his serious swelling into bombast. But he is always great, when some great occasion is presented to him: No man can say, he ever had a fit subject for his wit, and did not then raise himself as high above the rest of poets.
الصفحة 90 - Beaumont and Fletcher, of whom I am next to speak, had, with the advantage of Shakespeare's wit, which was their precedent, great natural gifts improved by study; Beaumont especially being so accurate a judge of plays that Ben Jonson, while he lived, submitted all his writings to his censure, and, 'tis thought, used his judgment in correcting, if not contriving all his plots.