Observations on our principal dramatic authors. The school for husbands, a comedy. The renown, a tragedy. The school for friends, a Comedy. Ninus, a tragedyJ. M'Creery, Fleet-street, 1809 |
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Strana xiii
... leaving behind him five and thirty plays , which embrace the whole circle of human life , for the amusement , instruc- tion , and melioration of all ages . 66 Shakespeare , " says Johnson , " was the first considerable author of sublime ...
... leaving behind him five and thirty plays , which embrace the whole circle of human life , for the amusement , instruc- tion , and melioration of all ages . 66 Shakespeare , " says Johnson , " was the first considerable author of sublime ...
Strana xv
James Mason. and Iniquity , in which the minor devil , Pug , asks leave to go on earth , but is sus- pected by his master of not being equal to the times . He gets permission , and the intention is to show that " he is an ass " for ...
James Mason. and Iniquity , in which the minor devil , Pug , asks leave to go on earth , but is sus- pected by his master of not being equal to the times . He gets permission , and the intention is to show that " he is an ass " for ...
Strana xxxix
... Leaving his deathless works and thee behind , ( The natural successor of his mind ) Then mayst thou finish what he has begun ; Heir to his merit , be in fame his son : What thou hast done shews all is in thy power : And to write better ...
... Leaving his deathless works and thee behind , ( The natural successor of his mind ) Then mayst thou finish what he has begun ; Heir to his merit , be in fame his son : What thou hast done shews all is in thy power : And to write better ...
Strana xliii
... leave of this emi- nent dramatist , without noticing an addi- tional fault in him , and that of consider- able magnitude . His characters want re- lief . They are too uniformly either vi- cious or ridiculous . Congreve was cer- tainly a ...
... leave of this emi- nent dramatist , without noticing an addi- tional fault in him , and that of consider- able magnitude . His characters want re- lief . They are too uniformly either vi- cious or ridiculous . Congreve was cer- tainly a ...
Strana xlv
... leave thee , can I leave thee ? O what pain it is to part ! Can thy Polly ever leave thee ? But lest death my love should thwart And bring thee to the fatal cart , Thus I tear thee from my bleeding heart ! Fly hence and let me leave ...
... leave thee , can I leave thee ? O what pain it is to part ! Can thy Polly ever leave thee ? But lest death my love should thwart And bring thee to the fatal cart , Thus I tear thee from my bleeding heart ! Fly hence and let me leave ...
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Strana v - ... he therefore indulged his natural disposition, and his disposition, as Rymer has remarked, led him to comedy. In tragedy he often writes with great appearance of toil and study, what is written at last with little felicity; but in his comick scenes, he seems to produce without labour, what no labour can improve.
Strana viii - Biron they call him ; but a merrier man, Within the limit of becoming mirth, I never spent an hour's talk withal : His eye begets occasion for his wit ; For every object that the one doth catch, The other turns to a mirth-moving jest ; Which his fair tongue (conceit's expositor) Delivers in such apt and gracious words, That aged ears play truant at his tales, And younger hearings are quite ravished ; So sweet and voluble is his discourse.
Strana xl - CONGREVE has merit of the highest kind ; he is an original writer, who borrowed neither the models of his plot, nor the manner of his dialogue.
Strana liii - ... and bid him (like Cymon in the fable) grow polite, by falling in love, and let that worthy old gentleman alone, meaning me. The clown was not reformed, but rudely persisted, and offered to force off my mask ; with that the gentleman, throwing off...
Strana v - In his tragic scenes there is always something wanting, but his comedy often surpasses expectation or desire. His comedy pleases by the thoughts and the language, and his tragedy for the greater part by incident and action. His tragedy seems to be skill, his comedy to be instinct.
Strana lix - If by a more noble and more adequate conception that be considered as wit which is at once natural and new, that which, though not obvious, is, upon its first production, acknowledged to be just...
Strana xxxii - I hope, since I have but one girl in the world, you won't think me a troublesome old fool, if I endeavour to bestow her to her worth; therefore, if...
Strana xxii - Their plots were generally more regular than Shakespeare's, especially those which were made before Beaumont's death; and they understood and imitated the conversation of gentlemen much better; whose wild debaucheries, and quickness of wit in repartees, no poet can ever paint as they have done.
Strana xlii - Those characters which are meant to be ridiculed in most of our comedies are of fools so gross, that in my humble opinion they should rather disturb than divert the wellnatured and reflecting part of an audience; they are rather objects of charity than contempt, and instead of moving our mirth, they ought very often to excite our compassion.
Strana xxxix - Dryden has long extended his command, By right divine, quite through the Muses' land Absolute lord ; and holding now from none, But great Apollo, his undoubted crown ; (That empire settled, and grown old in...