Le public et les hommes de lettres en Angleterre au dix-huitième siècle, 1660-1744: (Dryden--Addison--Pope) |
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... joue l'ouverture , le rideau se lève et découvre un nou- veau frontispice joint aux grands pilastres qui sont de chaque côté ... Jouée en 1667 . de grandes colonnes torses de l'ordre corinthien ; les torsades JOHN DRYDEN ET LE THÉATRE . 37.
... joue l'ouverture , le rideau se lève et découvre un nou- veau frontispice joint aux grands pilastres qui sont de chaque côté ... Jouée en 1667 . de grandes colonnes torses de l'ordre corinthien ; les torsades JOHN DRYDEN ET LE THÉATRE . 37.
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... jouée un jour en tragédie , le lende- main en tragi - comédie . Waller changea le dernier acte de The Maids Tragedie de Beaumont et Fletcher , pour la faire finir comme une comédie 2. Tout ce vieux théâtre jurait avec les goûts nouveaux ...
... jouée un jour en tragédie , le lende- main en tragi - comédie . Waller changea le dernier acte de The Maids Tragedie de Beaumont et Fletcher , pour la faire finir comme une comédie 2. Tout ce vieux théâtre jurait avec les goûts nouveaux ...
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... jouée . 2 ... Or like my self , some other may be made ; And her new Beauty may thy heart invade . ( The State of Innocence , acte 11 , sc . 1. ) 3. The Conquest of Granada , 1re partie , acte IV , sc . 2. Voir dans le même genre , les ...
... jouée . 2 ... Or like my self , some other may be made ; And her new Beauty may thy heart invade . ( The State of Innocence , acte 11 , sc . 1. ) 3. The Conquest of Granada , 1re partie , acte IV , sc . 2. Voir dans le même genre , les ...
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... jouée dix fois de suite était un succès prodigieux 3 . Le plus souvent on n'allait pas au delà de trois , quatre , cinq , six représentations . Impossible aussi de compter sur les reprises . Sir Martin Mar - all du duc de Newcastle et ...
... jouée dix fois de suite était un succès prodigieux 3 . Le plus souvent on n'allait pas au delà de trois , quatre , cinq , six représentations . Impossible aussi de compter sur les reprises . Sir Martin Mar - all du duc de Newcastle et ...
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... jouée , et qu'il m'a fait la faveur de me dire qu'elle était supérieure à toutes mes pièces précédentes , et qu'il serait fàché que quoi que ce soit en fût retranché 1 . » Il eût fallu être bien hardi après cela pour persister dans les ...
... jouée , et qu'il m'a fait la faveur de me dire qu'elle était supérieure à toutes mes pièces précédentes , et qu'il serait fàché que quoi que ce soit en fût retranché 1 . » Il eût fallu être bien hardi après cela pour persister dans les ...
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Absalon et Achitophel Account Acted Addison Alexander Pope Ambrose Philips Anchor anglais Author Babillard Behn bibliographie Biographia British Museum Buckingham Charles Church Collier Comedy Congreve Crown d'Addison D'Urfey dédicace Defoe Duke Duke's Theatre Earl écrivains Edition England English Poets Essays first Fleet-street folio good great Halifax Head Henry Herringman His Royal Highness History Honourable Jacob Tonson Jeremy Collier John Dryden Johnson Journal to Stella King Lady late lettres Life littéraire littérature Lives livres sterling London Lord Love Lower Walk Macaulay Majesties Servants Malone Mercurius Nell Gwyn New Exchange œuvres Oroonoko Otway pièce Play Poems politique Pope Printed Printed for Jacob prologue Queen Richard Steele Robert Howard Rochester Roger L'Estrange Russel-street Satire scène Settle Shadwell sold Spectateur Stage Steele Strand Street Swift théâtre Theatre Royal Thomas time tories tragédie Vanbrugh volume whigs William Works write Written by Mr Wycherley Year
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Page 320 - Robb'd of his sprightly beams, she wept the night, Till the Spectator rose, and blaz'd as bright. So the first man the sun's first setting view'd, And sigh'd, till circling day his joys renew'd ; Yet doubtful how that second sun to name, Whether a bright successor, or the same.
Page 116 - Playhouse for diverse years, and received for his share and a quarter, three or four hundred pounds, communibus annis; but though he received the moneys, we received not the playes, not one in a yeare. After which, the House being burnt, the Company, in building another, contracted great debts, so that the shares fell much short of what they were formerly. Thereupon, Mr Dryden complaining to the Company of his want of...
Page 123 - Britain was a plentiful and perpetual emporium of learned authors ; and men went thither as to a market. This drew to the place a mighty trade ; the rather because the shops were spacious, and the learned gladly resorted to them, where they seldom failed to meet with agreeable conversation. And the booksellers themselves were knowing and conversible men, with whom, for the sake of bookish knowledge, the greatest wits were pleased to converse.
Page 323 - He has indeed rescued it out of the hands of pedants, and fools, and discovered the true method of making it amiable and lovely to all mankind.
Page 494 - The Stage Condemn'd, and The Encouragement given to the Immoralities and Profaneness of the Theatre, by the English Schools, Universities and Pulpits, Censur'd. King Charles I. Sundays Mask and Declaration for Sports and Pastimes on the Sabbath, largely Related and Animadverted upon. The Arguments of all the Authors that have Writ in Defence of the Stage against Mr, Collier, Considered.
Page 24 - The wretch at summing up his misspent days Found nothing left, but poverty and praise; Of all his gains by verse he could not save Enough to purchase flannel and a grave...
Page 322 - It would have been a jest sometime since, for a man to have asserted that anything witty could be said in praise of a married state ; or that devotion and virtue were any way necessary to the character of a fine gentleman. Bickerstaff...
Page 117 - Oedipus, and given it to the Duke's Company, contrary to his said agreement, his promise, and all gratitude, to the great prejudice and almost undoing of the Company, they being the only poets remaining to us. Mr Crowne, being under the like agreement with the Duke's House, writt a play called the Destruction of Jerusalem...
Page 495 - Imprinted at London by Robert Barker, Printer to the Kings most Excellent Maiestie. Anno Dom. 1611.
Page 323 - Lastly, his writings have set all our wits and men of letters upon a new way of thinking, of which they had little or no notion before; and though we cannot yet say that any of them have come up to the beauties of the original, I think we may venture to affirm, that every one of them writes a.nd thinks much more justly than they did some time since.