Biographia Dramatica: pt. 2. Authors and actors: I-Y. Appendix. Additions and correctionsLongman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1812 |
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... early one morning in February 1772 , of eloping from her family . She had previously packed up a few necessaries in a bandbox ; and , with these , ran about two miles across some fields , and there waited with impatience for the stage ...
... early one morning in February 1772 , of eloping from her family . She had previously packed up a few necessaries in a bandbox ; and , with these , ran about two miles across some fields , and there waited with impatience for the stage ...
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... early hour ; and thou- sands were forced to return , who could not gain admittance into any part of the house . The following handbill ( in the publication or cir- culation of which the managers , we understand , had no concern ) was ...
... early hour ; and thou- sands were forced to return , who could not gain admittance into any part of the house . The following handbill ( in the publication or cir- culation of which the managers , we understand , had no concern ) was ...
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... early as 1771 that he wrote the poem of St. Thomas's Mount , as we find by the advertisement to that work ; and a short time after , Bedukah , or , The Self - devoted , an Indian pastoral , was produced , and both published in London in ...
... early as 1771 that he wrote the poem of St. Thomas's Mount , as we find by the advertisement to that work ; and a short time after , Bedukah , or , The Self - devoted , an Indian pastoral , was produced , and both published in London in ...
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... early attachment to literature , and was intended for the church ; to qua- lify himself for which , he received a suitable education . But a pas- sion for the stage led him to try his fortune that way at Edinburgh , where he made his ...
... early attachment to literature , and was intended for the church ; to qua- lify himself for which , he received a suitable education . But a pas- sion for the stage led him to try his fortune that way at Edinburgh , where he made his ...
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... earliest intelligence of the moment at which these gentlemen should have hanged or drowned themselves , in consequence of his attack on their abilities and characters . That the two now deceased cri- tics , however , may escape the ac ...
... earliest intelligence of the moment at which these gentlemen should have hanged or drowned themselves , in consequence of his attack on their abilities and characters . That the two now deceased cri- tics , however , may escape the ac ...
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Página 414 - But he has done his robberies so openly, that one may see he fears not to be taxed by any law. He invades authors like a monarch ; and what would be theft in other poets, is only victory in him.
Página 499 - Seven years, My Lord, have now passed since I waited in your outward rooms or was repulsed from your door, during which time I have been pushing on my work through difficulties of which it is useless to complain, and have brought it at last to the verge of publication without one act of assistance, one word of encouragement or one smile of favour.
Página 515 - The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates PROVING THAT IT IS LAWFUL, AND HATH BEEN HELD SO THROUGH ALL AGES, FOR ANY WHO HAVE THE POWER TO CALL TO ACCOUNT A TYRANT, OR WICKED KING, AND AFTER DUE CONVICTION TO DEPOSE AND PUT HIM TO DEATH, IF THE ORDINARY MAGISTRATE HAVE NEGLECTED OR DENIED TO DO IT.
Página 414 - As for Jonson, to whose character I am now arrived, if we look upon him while he was himself (for his last plays were but his dotages), I think him the most learned and judicious writer which any theatre ever had. He was a most severe judge of himself, as well as others. One cannot say he wanted wit, but rather that he was frugal of it.
Página 414 - Wit and language, and humour also in some measure, we had before him ; but something of art was wanting to the drama, till he came.
Página 693 - Tarlton before they would go to the queen, and he was their usher to prepare their advantageous access unto her. In a word, he told the queen more of her faults than most of her chaplains, and cured her melancholy better than all of her physicians. Much of his merriment lay in his very looks and actions, according to the epitaph written upon him: Hie situs est cujus poterat vox, actio, vultus, Ex Heraclito reddere Democritum.
Página 446 - I have been informed by an actor who was present, that while Lee was reading to major Mohun at a rehearsal, Mohun in the warmth of his admiration threw down his part and said — " Unless I were able to play it as well as you read it, to what purpose should I undertake it ?
Página 415 - If there was any fault in his language, 'twas that he weaved it too closely and laboriously, in his comedies especially : perhaps too, he did a little too much Romanize our tongue, leaving the words which he translated almost as much Latin as he found them : wherein, though he learnedly followed their language, he did not enough comply with the idiom of ours.
Página 441 - Specimens of English Dramatic Poets who lived about the time of Shakspeare...
Página 415 - To conclude of him; as he has given us the most correct plays, so in the precepts which he has laid down in his Discoveries, we have as many and profitable rules for perfecting the stage, as any wherewith the French can furnish us.