Some Account of the English Stage: From the Restoration in 1660 to 1830, المجلد 8H.E. Carrington, 1882 |
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From the Restoration in 1660 to 1830 John Genest. Act 1st scene 1st - this play was not only well acted , but gotten up with much care - the Bishops were dressed in Protestant ... Scene 3d . Lord Sands says- " They've all C. G. 1805-1806 . 5.
From the Restoration in 1660 to 1830 John Genest. Act 1st scene 1st - this play was not only well acted , but gotten up with much care - the Bishops were dressed in Protestant ... Scene 3d . Lord Sands says- " They've all C. G. 1805-1806 . 5.
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... Scene 4th . Cavendish gives a particular account of the Banquet - he differs but little from Shakspeare , except in telling us , that Wolsey mistook Sir Edward Neville for the King - he adds that Lord Sands was the King's Chamberlain ...
... Scene 4th . Cavendish gives a particular account of the Banquet - he differs but little from Shakspeare , except in telling us , that Wolsey mistook Sir Edward Neville for the King - he adds that Lord Sands was the King's Chamberlain ...
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... Scene 2d . 66 See , the King , " is from the prompt- book of 1773 - there is no particular harm in such little additions to the original text , but why make them ? 66 Enter Wolsey and Campeius with a commission . Burnet in his History ...
... Scene 2d . 66 See , the King , " is from the prompt- book of 1773 - there is no particular harm in such little additions to the original text , but why make them ? 66 Enter Wolsey and Campeius with a commission . Burnet in his History ...
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... scene he should not be dressed as a Bishop , he was not made Bishop of Winchester till Dec. 5 1531 , after Wolsey's death- this scene is supposed to pass in 1528 when Cam- peius came into England - the King absolutely gained Campeius to ...
... scene he should not be dressed as a Bishop , he was not made Bishop of Winchester till Dec. 5 1531 , after Wolsey's death- this scene is supposed to pass in 1528 when Cam- peius came into England - the King absolutely gained Campeius to ...
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... Scene 3d . If Kemble had any authority for chang- ing Shakspeare's Old Lady into Lady Denny , he should have pointed it out in a note - if he had none , his caprice was inexcusable . Scene 4th . The King concludes the act with an ...
... Scene 3d . If Kemble had any authority for chang- ing Shakspeare's Old Lady into Lady Denny , he should have pointed it out in a note - if he had none , his caprice was inexcusable . Scene 4th . The King concludes the act with an ...
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الصفحة 229 - The truth is that the spectators are always in their senses and know from the first act to the last that the stage is only a stage and that the players are only players.
الصفحة 13 - Well, well, Master Kingston," quoth he, "I see the matter against me how it is framed; but if I had served God as diligently as I have done the king, he would not have given me over in my grey hairs.
الصفحة 229 - The necessity of observing the unities of time and place arises from the supposed necessity of making the drama credible. The critics hold it impossible, that an action of months or years can be possibly believed to pass in three hours ; or that the spectator can suppose himself to sit in the...
الصفحة 578 - I remember the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare, that in his writing (whatsoever he penned) he never blotted out a line. My answer hath been, "Would he had blotted a thousand," which they thought a malevolent speech.
الصفحة 229 - He that without diminution of any other excellence shall preserve all the unities unbroken, deserves the like applause with the architect who shall display all the orders of architecture in a citadel without any deduction from its strength. But the principal beauty of a citadel is to exclude the enemy, and the greatest graces of a play are to copy nature and instruct life.
الصفحة 397 - I have survived all true national taste, and lived to see buffoonery, spectacle, and puerility so effectually triumph, that now to be repulsed from the stage is to be recommended to the closet, and to be applauded by the theatre is little else than a passport to the puppet-show.
الصفحة 571 - The New Inn: or, the Light Heart, a Comedy. As it was never Acted, but most negligently Played by some, the KING'S SERVANTS; and more squeamishly beheld and censur'd by others, the KING'S SUBJECTS, 1629.
الصفحة 265 - I danced forward ; but it struck home, and here, and in an instant. Be such mere women, who with shrieks and outcries can vow a present end to all their sorrows: yet live to court new pleasures, and outlive them. They are the silent griefs which cut the heartstrings; let me die smiling.
الصفحة 229 - Time is, of all modes of existence, most obsequious to the imagination ; a lapse of years is as easily conceived as a passage of hours. In contemplation we easily contract the time of real actions, and therefore willingly permit it to be contracted when we only see their imitation.
الصفحة 12 - From his cradle, He was a scholar, and a ripe and good one ; Exceeding wise, fair spoken, and persuading : Lofty and sour to them that loved him not ; But to those men that sought him, sweet as summer.