Names of dramas : M-Z. Latin plays by English authors. Oratorios. Appendix to v.2 and 3. Additions and corrections to v.2 and 3Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1812 - English drama |
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... merit , met with great applause , and has a copy of verses prefixed by Sir As- ton Cokain . 48. THE MAID OF HONOUR . Com . Acted at Drury Lane , 1785 . This was an alteration of Mas- singer's play , by J. P. Kemble ; but ...
... merit , met with great applause , and has a copy of verses prefixed by Sir As- ton Cokain . 48. THE MAID OF HONOUR . Com . Acted at Drury Lane , 1785 . This was an alteration of Mas- singer's play , by J. P. Kemble ; but ...
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... merit of this piece " in plot , character , sentiment , " constructed in respect to the " three unities of time , place , and " action . In respect to time , the " whole continuance of the play " does not take up above eight- and ...
... merit of this piece " in plot , character , sentiment , " constructed in respect to the " three unities of time , place , and " action . In respect to time , the " whole continuance of the play " does not take up above eight- and ...
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... merit of the author , the public were led to expect a more excellent performance than this was found to be on its representa- tion . The plan of it is French , formed after the manner of Rous- seau's Pygmalion , and is inter- spersed ...
... merit of the author , the public were led to expect a more excellent performance than this was found to be on its representa- tion . The plan of it is French , formed after the manner of Rous- seau's Pygmalion , and is inter- spersed ...
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... merit ; yet to the modesty and amiable diffidence of its au- thor , perhaps , was owing its not being published in his lifetime . Were everywriter possessed of these good qualities , the town would not be so frequently pestered with the ...
... merit ; yet to the modesty and amiable diffidence of its au- thor , perhaps , was owing its not being published in his lifetime . Were everywriter possessed of these good qualities , the town would not be so frequently pestered with the ...
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... merit to the Hart- ford Bridge of the same author . 294. A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM . Com . by W. Shakspeare , Acted by the Lord Chamberlain's Servants . 4to . 1600 , by James Roberts . Two copies in the same year . This play is one of ...
... merit to the Hart- ford Bridge of the same author . 294. A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM . Com . by W. Shakspeare , Acted by the Lord Chamberlain's Servants . 4to . 1600 , by James Roberts . Two copies in the same year . This play is one of ...
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Page 82 - Fountain heads and pathless groves, Places which pale passion loves ! Moonlight walks, when all the fowls Are warmly housed save bats and owls ! A midnight bell, a parting groan ! These are the sounds we feed upon ; Then stretch our bones in a still gloomy valley ; Nothing's so dainty sweet as lovely melancholy.
Page 158 - The throne we honour is the people's choice ; the laws we reverence are our brave fathers' legacy ; the faith we follow teaches us to live in bonds of charity with all mankind, and die with hope of bliss beyond the grave. Tell your invaders this, and tell them, too, we seek no change : and, least of all, such change as they would bring us.
Page 60 - Looking tranquillity! It strikes an awe And terror on my aching sight; the tombs And monumental caves of death look cold, And shoot a chillness to my trembling heart.
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Page 60 - And terror on my aching sight ; the tombs And monumental caves of death look cold, And shoot a chilness to my trembling heart. Give me thy hand, and let me hear thy voice ; Nay, quickly speak to me, and let me hear Thy voice — my own affrights me with its echoes.
Page 116 - Passage (from the Tower) through his Honourable Citie (and Chamber) of London, being the 15. of March, 1603. As well by the English as by the Strangers : With the Speeches and Songes, delivered in the severall Pageants.
Page 42 - WILD and fantastical as this play is, all the parts, in their various modes, are well written, and give the kind of pleasure which the author designed. Fairies in his time were much in fashion ; common tradition had made them familiar, and Spenser's poem had made them great JOHNSON.