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, Band 2The author, 1783 |
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... plea- fure to the audience . Upon its last revi- val , it was acted with fuch theatrical skill as excited general merriment . The un- binding Parolles , C 4 as ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL . 39 All his phrases of that kind are to be un- ...
... plea- fure to the audience . Upon its last revi- val , it was acted with fuch theatrical skill as excited general merriment . The un- binding Parolles , C 4 as ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL . 39 All his phrases of that kind are to be un- ...
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... skill by any actor but Garrick ; though a character , which is all paffion and all repentance , is like a picture without keeping : the light and fhade , though ftrong , receive no ad- vantage from the perfpective : the distress of ...
... skill by any actor but Garrick ; though a character , which is all paffion and all repentance , is like a picture without keeping : the light and fhade , though ftrong , receive no ad- vantage from the perfpective : the distress of ...
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... skill in Bobadil . Though different in his manner from Woodward , he drew a good portrait of the coward and the bully . -Were he to act it oftener , he would cer- tainly be more warm in his colouring . The The fuccefs of Every Man in ...
... skill in Bobadil . Though different in his manner from Woodward , he drew a good portrait of the coward and the bully . -Were he to act it oftener , he would cer- tainly be more warm in his colouring . The The fuccefs of Every Man in ...
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... skill he could bestow on this comedy , found that it was labour loft ; there was no reviving the dead . The audience were as much difgufted with Jon- fon's old ruffs and bands , as the wits of James I. were with Hyeronimo's old cloak ...
... skill he could bestow on this comedy , found that it was labour loft ; there was no reviving the dead . The audience were as much difgufted with Jon- fon's old ruffs and bands , as the wits of James I. were with Hyeronimo's old cloak ...
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... skill in reprefenting old men , though not arrived to his fourteenth year , he celebrated in a copy of verses to his me- mory . . Such was the authority of Jonson's name , that the king's comedians , efta- blished at the Restoration ...
... skill in reprefenting old men , though not arrived to his fourteenth year , he celebrated in a copy of verses to his me- mory . . Such was the authority of Jonson's name , that the king's comedians , efta- blished at the Restoration ...
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Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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!
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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,
Seite 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.