Dramatic Miscellanies: Consisting of Critical Observations on Several Plays of Shakespeare: With a Review of His Principal Characters, and Those of Various Eminent Writers, as Represented by Mr. Garrick and Other Celebrated Comedians. With Anecdotes of Dramatic Poets, Actors, &c, Volume 2The author, 1783 - Theater |
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... said that Mr. Garrick had once made a promife to a gentleman , re- spectable for elegance of taste and polite- nefs of manners , to act Arbaces and Bes- fus alternately . This promife must have been made when Rofcius was in a very gay ...
... said that Mr. Garrick had once made a promife to a gentleman , re- spectable for elegance of taste and polite- nefs of manners , to act Arbaces and Bes- fus alternately . This promife must have been made when Rofcius was in a very gay ...
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... said , Can you really feel grief for one who fo cruelly treated you ? -İ DE M. usu . Yds , faith ! I appeal to all , who are converfant in ancient or modern dramatic poetry , whe- ther this scene of domeftic forrow be not fuperior , in ...
... said , Can you really feel grief for one who fo cruelly treated you ? -İ DE M. usu . Yds , faith ! I appeal to all , who are converfant in ancient or modern dramatic poetry , whe- ther this scene of domeftic forrow be not fuperior , in ...
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... said of the generous offspring of our inimitable bard , Kent can no where be matched . Edgar and Cordelia follow next : fuch an example as Cordelia , of filial piety , except perhaps in the Grecian stage , is not to be found in dramatic ...
... said of the generous offspring of our inimitable bard , Kent can no where be matched . Edgar and Cordelia follow next : fuch an example as Cordelia , of filial piety , except perhaps in the Grecian stage , is not to be found in dramatic ...
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... said about the meaning of arm - gaunt fteed . In ridicule , I fuppofe , of Warburton's explanation , Mr. Edwards compared the horse , that bore the great mafter of a third part of the globe , to the lean and emaciated Rofinante of Don ...
... said about the meaning of arm - gaunt fteed . In ridicule , I fuppofe , of Warburton's explanation , Mr. Edwards compared the horse , that bore the great mafter of a third part of the globe , to the lean and emaciated Rofinante of Don ...
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... said to him on his acting Mithridates : Thou little man of mettle ! if I fhould write a hun- dred plays , I would write a part for thy mouth . ' • Mrs. Cibber infifted upon injuring her own confequence , if that were poffible , by ...
... said to him on his acting Mithridates : Thou little man of mettle ! if I fhould write a hun- dred plays , I would write a part for thy mouth . ' • Mrs. Cibber infifted upon injuring her own confequence , if that were poffible , by ...
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Page 315 - tis fittest. Cor. How does my royal lord? How fares your majesty? Lear. You do me wrong, to take me out o' the grave. — Thou art a soul in bliss ; but I am bound Upon a wheel of fire, that mine own tears Do scald like molten lead.
Page 20 - element,' but the word is over-worn. \Exit. Vio. This fellow is wise enough to play the fool ; And to do that well craves a kind of wit : He must observe their mood on whom he jests, The quality of persons, and the time, And, like the haggard, check at every feather That comes before his eye.
Page 147 - What hands are here ? ha ! they pluck out mine eyes. Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood Clean from my hand ? No, this my hand will rather The multitudinous seas incarnadine, Making the green one red.
Page 253 - He only, in a general honest thought, And common good to all, made one of them. His life was gentle, and the elements So mix'd in him that Nature might stand up And say to all the world, 'This was a man!
Page 263 - I was many years ago so shocked by Cordelia's death, that I know not whether I ever endured to read again the last scenes of the play till I undertook to revise them as an editor.
Page 278 - Garrick rendered the curse so terribly affecting to the audience, that, during his utterance of it, they seemed to shrink from it as from a blast of lightning. His preparation for it was extremely affecting; his throwing away his crutch, kneeling on one knee, clasping his hands together, and lifting his eyes towards heaven, presented a picture worthy the pencil of a Raphael.
Page 262 - A play in which the wicked prosper, and the virtuous miscarry, may doubtless be good, because it is a just representation of the common events of human life ; but since all reasonable beings naturally love justice, I cannot easily be persuaded, that the observation of justice makes a play worse ; or, that if other excellences are equal, the audience will not always rise better pleased from the final triumph of persecuted virtue.
Page 279 - His pauses and broken interruptions of speech, of which he was extremely enamored, sometimes to a degree of impropriety, were at times too inartificially repeated ; nor did he give that terror to the whole which the great poet intended should predominate. THOMAS DAVIES : ' Dramatic Miscellanies,
Page 351 - ANT. Come on, my soldier! Our hearts and arms are still the same: I long Once more to meet our foes, that thou and I, Like Time and Death, marching before our troops, May taste fate to 'em; mow 'em out a passage, And, ent'ring where the foremost squadrons yield, Begin the noble harvest of the field.