Dramatic Micellanies [sic]: Consisting of Critical Observations on Several Plays of Shakspeare: with a Review of His Principal Characters, and Those of Various Eminent Writers, as Represented by Mr. Garrick, and Other Celebrated Comedians. ... By Thomas Davies, ... In Three Volumes. ... |
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... last Shift . All's well that ends well , after having lain more than a hundred years undisturbed up- on the prompter's fhelf , was , in October , 1741 , revived at the theatre in Drury - lane . Milward , who acted the King , is faid to ...
... last Shift . All's well that ends well , after having lain more than a hundred years undisturbed up- on the prompter's fhelf , was , in October , 1741 , revived at the theatre in Drury - lane . Milward , who acted the King , is faid to ...
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... last and most finished tragedy , be- fides a happily - conceived drunken scene of Caffio , we are prefented with the follies of a Roderigo : these comic characters , placed in proper fituations to produce action ari- fing from the plot ...
... last and most finished tragedy , be- fides a happily - conceived drunken scene of Caffio , we are prefented with the follies of a Roderigo : these comic characters , placed in proper fituations to produce action ari- fing from the plot ...
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... last words might be better understood . Dr. Johnson interprets the expreffion , a cross , ' to mean , a pass in wit that mifcarries . I think quite otherwise . The King , not being , through infirmity , able to raise La- feu from ...
... last words might be better understood . Dr. Johnson interprets the expreffion , a cross , ' to mean , a pass in wit that mifcarries . I think quite otherwise . The King , not being , through infirmity , able to raise La- feu from ...
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... the audience . Upon its last revi- val , it was acted with fuch theatrical skill e- as excited general merriment . The un- binding Parolles C 4 as ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL . 39 All his phrases of that kind are to be un- ...
... the audience . Upon its last revi- val , it was acted with fuch theatrical skill e- as excited general merriment . The un- binding Parolles C 4 as ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL . 39 All his phrases of that kind are to be un- ...
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... last as long as many of our old come- dies . The language of Jonfon is very pe- culiar ; în perfpicuity and elegance he is inferior to Beaumont and Fletcher , and very unlike the masculine dialogue of Maffin- ger . It is almoft needless ...
... last as long as many of our old come- dies . The language of Jonfon is very pe- culiar ; în perfpicuity and elegance he is inferior to Beaumont and Fletcher , and very unlike the masculine dialogue of Maffin- ger . It is almoft needless ...
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Page 318 - Methinks I should know you, and know this man; Yet I am doubtful; for I am mainly' ignorant What place this is, and all the skill I have Remembers not these garments; nor I know not Where I did lodge last night. Do not laugh at me ; For, as I am a man, I think this lady To be my child Cordelia.
Page 255 - 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 210 - Set honour in one eye and death i' the other, And I will look on both indifferently; For let the gods so speed me as I love The name of honour more than I fear death.
Page 317 - 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 265 - 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 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 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 128 - He made darkness his secret place, his pavilion round about Him with dark water, and thick clouds to cover Him.
Page 279 - But we should reflect, that Lear is not agitated by one passion only, that he is not moved by rage, by grief, and indignation, singly, but by a tumultuous combination of them all together, where all claim to be heard at once, and where one naturally interrupts the progress of the other.
Page 355 - 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 them ; mow them out a passage, And, entering where the foremost squadrons yield, Begin the noble harvest of the field.