Biographia Dramatica: Names of dramas: A-LLongman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1812 |
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... French , by Theodore Beza , and translated into English , by A [ rthur ] G [ old- ing ] ; finished at Powles Belchamp , in Essex , the 11th day of August , 1575 , with wood cuts . Printed by Vantrowllier . 18mo . 1577 . This piece ...
... French , by Theodore Beza , and translated into English , by A [ rthur ] G [ old- ing ] ; finished at Powles Belchamp , in Essex , the 11th day of August , 1575 , with wood cuts . Printed by Vantrowllier . 18mo . 1577 . This piece ...
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... French novel of the same name , translated by Mrs. Behu , and deservedly met with very good success . TION . 84. THE AGREEABLE SEPARA- Com . Entertainment , by Dr. Collingwood . Never acted . Printed at Berwick . 12mo . No date . 85 ...
... French novel of the same name , translated by Mrs. Behu , and deservedly met with very good success . TION . 84. THE AGREEABLE SEPARA- Com . Entertainment , by Dr. Collingwood . Never acted . Printed at Berwick . 12mo . No date . 85 ...
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... French writers , throw a heaviness into the piece , which , however strongly it may be sup- ported , render it ever tedious and insipid to the taste of an English audience . It met , however , with the early approbation of the great ...
... French writers , throw a heaviness into the piece , which , however strongly it may be sup- ported , render it ever tedious and insipid to the taste of an English audience . It met , however , with the early approbation of the great ...
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... French Theatre in the Haymarket . 8vo . 1732 . 220. AMELIA . A Musical En- tertainment , by Richard Cumber- land . Acted at Covent Garden . 8vo . 1768. This was taken from + AME The Summer's Tale of the same author . * 221 . AMELIA . A ...
... French Theatre in the Haymarket . 8vo . 1732 . 220. AMELIA . A Musical En- tertainment , by Richard Cumber- land . Acted at Covent Garden . 8vo . 1768. This was taken from + AME The Summer's Tale of the same author . * 221 . AMELIA . A ...
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... French stage . 236. AMOROUS GALLANT ; or , Love in Fashion . Com . in heroic verse . As it was acted . 4to . 1675 . Miserable poetry , See AMOROUS ORONTUS . 237. THE AMOROUS GODDESS ; or , Harlequin Married . Pant , Acted at Drury Lane ...
... French stage . 236. AMOROUS GALLANT ; or , Love in Fashion . Com . in heroic verse . As it was acted . 4to . 1675 . Miserable poetry , See AMOROUS ORONTUS . 237. THE AMOROUS GODDESS ; or , Harlequin Married . Pant , Acted at Drury Lane ...
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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.