Biographia Dramatica: Names of dramas: A-LLongman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1812 |
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... founded on a very affecting story in Xenophon's Cyropædia . Never acted . ABS M. Le Noble ; translated by S. P. The language of this play is in many places either prosaic or bom- bast ; yet the incidents are in them- selves so affecting ...
... founded on a very affecting story in Xenophon's Cyropædia . Never acted . ABS M. Le Noble ; translated by S. P. The language of this play is in many places either prosaic or bom- bast ; yet the incidents are in them- selves so affecting ...
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... 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 ...
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... 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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... founded on Nea- politan history . This play , how- ever , is taken from the Young Ad- miral of Shirley . Prologue by Joe Haines ; Epil . Durfey . 196. ALPHONSUS , EMPEROR OF GERMANY . Trag.by George Chap- man , often acted with great ap ...
... founded on Nea- politan history . This play , how- ever , is taken from the Young Ad- miral of Shirley . Prologue by Joe Haines ; Epil . Durfey . 196. ALPHONSUS , EMPEROR OF GERMANY . Trag.by George Chap- man , often acted with great ap ...
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... founded on history . See Wanley's History of Man , lib . iv . c . 10 ; and Purchas's Pilgrimage , vol . iv . book 10 , ch . 16. The Rape of Isabinda , by Harman , is built on a novel of Giraldi , Decad . 5 , Nov. 10. It is , as Dr ...
... founded on history . See Wanley's History of Man , lib . iv . c . 10 ; and Purchas's Pilgrimage , vol . iv . book 10 , ch . 16. The Rape of Isabinda , by Harman , is built on a novel of Giraldi , Decad . 5 , Nov. 10. It is , as Dr ...
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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.