Biographia Dramatica: Names of dramas: A-LLongman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1812 |
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... Dublin , 8vo . 1793 , we find a song from a tragedy with the above title ; but whether it was printed , or still remains in MS . we know not . 54. ADRASTA ; or , The Woman's Spleen and Love's Conquest . Tragi- Com . by John Jones ...
... Dublin , 8vo . 1793 , we find a song from a tragedy with the above title ; but whether it was printed , or still remains in MS . we know not . 54. ADRASTA ; or , The Woman's Spleen and Love's Conquest . Tragi- Com . by John Jones ...
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... or , The False Tiberinus . Tragi- Com . by John Dancer . This is a translation from M. Quinault ; it is in heroic verse , was performed se- veral times with great applause at AJA the Theatre Royal in Dublin , and was printed 9.
... or , The False Tiberinus . Tragi- Com . by John Dancer . This is a translation from M. Quinault ; it is in heroic verse , was performed se- veral times with great applause at AJA the Theatre Royal in Dublin , and was printed 9.
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David Erskine Baker. AJA the Theatre Royal in Dublin , and was printed at London in 4to . 1675 . 88. AGRIPPINA , by Thos . May . See JULIA AGRIPPINA . 89. AGRIPPINA . Trag . in rhyme , by John Lord Hervey . Not printed . This performance ...
David Erskine Baker. AJA the Theatre Royal in Dublin , and was printed at London in 4to . 1675 . 88. AGRIPPINA , by Thos . May . See JULIA AGRIPPINA . 89. AGRIPPINA . Trag . in rhyme , by John Lord Hervey . Not printed . This performance ...
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... Dublin . 12mo . 1904. Never per- formed . ALL 155. ALL BEDEVILLED ; or , The House in an Uproar . A Farce , by Moses Browne . 8vo . 1723. See POLIDUS . 156. AN ALLEGORICAL MORAL DRAMATIC MUSICAL ENTERTAIN- MENT , by way of Epithalamium ...
... Dublin . 12mo . 1904. Never per- formed . ALL 155. ALL BEDEVILLED ; or , The House in an Uproar . A Farce , by Moses Browne . 8vo . 1723. See POLIDUS . 156. AN ALLEGORICAL MORAL DRAMATIC MUSICAL ENTERTAIN- MENT , by way of Epithalamium ...
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... Dublin . 173. ALL PLOT ; or , The Dis- guises . Com . by Mr. Stroude . Acted at Lincoln's Inn Fields , be- tween 1662 and 1671. This play is mentioned by Downes as having been performed only three times . It seems not to have been ...
... Dublin . 173. ALL PLOT ; or , The Dis- guises . Com . by Mr. Stroude . Acted at Lincoln's Inn Fields , be- tween 1662 and 1671. This play is mentioned by Downes as having been performed only three times . It seems not to have been ...
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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 55 - When you censure the age, Be cautious and sage, Lest the courtiers offended, should be ; If you mention vice or bribe, 'Tis so pat to all the tribe, Each cries — That was levelld at me.
الصفحة 18 - This was the fatal period of that virtuous fabric, wherein yet nothing did perish but wood and straw, and a few forsaken cloaks ; only one man had his breeches set on fire, that would perhaps have broiled him, if he had not by the benefit of a provident wit put it out with bottle ale.
الصفحة 18 - King Henry making a mask at the Cardinal Wolsey's house, and certain cannons being shot off at his entry, some of the paper, or other stuff wherewith one of them was stopped, did light on the thatch...
الصفحة 217 - Statutes in that case made and provided, and against the peace of our Sovereign Lord the King, his crown, and dignity.
الصفحة 212 - Penitent, his next production (1703), is one of the most pleasing tragedies on the stage, where it still keeps its turns of appearing, and probably will long keep them, for there is scarcely any work of any poet at once so interesting by the fable, and so delightful by the language.
الصفحة 277 - Hamlet" the praise of variety. The incidents are so numerous, that the argument of the play would make a long tale. The scenes are interchangeably diversified with merriment and solemnity ; with merriment, that includes judicious and instructive observations; and solemnity, not strained by poetical violence above 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.
الصفحة 73 - D'Ambois" upon the theatre ; but when I had taken up what I supposed a fallen star, I found I had been cozened with a jelly ; * nothing but a cold, dull mass, which glittered no longer than it was shooting...
الصفحة 148 - To remark the folly of the fiction, the absurdity of the conduct, the confusion of the names and manners of different times, and the impossibility of the events in any system of life, were to waste criticism upon unresisting imbecility, upon faults too evident for detection, and too gross for aggravation.
الصفحة 140 - ... and then discovered his face, that the spectators might see how they had transformed him, going on with their singing.