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, Volum 2The author, 1783 |
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Pàgina 33
... still more bold and uncertain : whereas Shakspeare infinuates , that it would be more modeft to confefs our ignorance , in things beyond our capacities to compre- hend , and attribute their existence to fome cause unknown to us . KING ...
... still more bold and uncertain : whereas Shakspeare infinuates , that it would be more modeft to confefs our ignorance , in things beyond our capacities to compre- hend , and attribute their existence to fome cause unknown to us . KING ...
Pàgina 38
... • Con him ' is a Scottish phrase , and still in ufe . I DE M. He is a cat ftill . Bertram calls him a cat three times , as a mark of great and incurable aversion . All All his phrases of that kind are to be un- 38 DRAMATIC MISCELLANIES .
... • Con him ' is a Scottish phrase , and still in ufe . I DE M. He is a cat ftill . Bertram calls him a cat three times , as a mark of great and incurable aversion . All All his phrases of that kind are to be un- 38 DRAMATIC MISCELLANIES .
Pàgina 72
... still to be a play to which the public pays attention . Many of the cha- racters are well adapted to the abilities of the actors , particularly Mr. Smith in Kite- ly , who , in this part , is not an unworthy fucceffor of our great ...
... still to be a play to which the public pays attention . Many of the cha- racters are well adapted to the abilities of the actors , particularly Mr. Smith in Kite- ly , who , in this part , is not an unworthy fucceffor of our great ...
Pàgina 78
... still this ifland be call'd fortunate ! And rugged treason tremble at the found , When fame fhall speak it with an emphasis . Let foreign polity be dull as lead , And pale invafion come with half a heart , When he looks upon her blessed ...
... still this ifland be call'd fortunate ! And rugged treason tremble at the found , When fame fhall speak it with an emphasis . Let foreign polity be dull as lead , And pale invafion come with half a heart , When he looks upon her blessed ...
Pàgina 99
... still more advantage , for Quin excelled Mills in Volpone . In the Mounte- bank he affumed all the art , trick , and volu- ble impudence , of a charlatan ; though W. Mills , who fucceeded Wilks in Mosca , fell below his predeceffor ...
... still more advantage , for Quin excelled Mills in Volpone . In the Mounte- bank he affumed all the art , trick , and volu- ble impudence , of a charlatan ; though W. Mills , who fucceeded Wilks in Mosca , fell below his predeceffor ...
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Pàgina 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.
Pàgina 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.
Pàgina 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.
Pàgina 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!
Pàgina 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.
Pàgina 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.
Pàgina 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.
Pàgina 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,
Pàgina 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.