Literary and Graphical Illustrations of Shakspeare, and the British Drama: Comprising an Historical View of the Origin and Improvement of the English Stage, and a Series of Critical and Descriptive Notices of Upwards of One Hundred of the Most Celebrated Tragedies, Comedies, Operas, and Farces. Embellished with More Than Two Hundred Engravings on WoodMaurice and Company, and pub. by Hurst, Chance and E. Wilson, 1831 - 204 Seiten |
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... songs ; as being " equally pestiferous and noisome to the common- weal : " permitting them only for the rebuking and reproaching of vices , and setting forth of virtue , if they meddled not with Scripture contrary to the declared ...
... songs ; as being " equally pestiferous and noisome to the common- weal : " permitting them only for the rebuking and reproaching of vices , and setting forth of virtue , if they meddled not with Scripture contrary to the declared ...
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... songs ; and , in 1777 , Sheridan revived it nearly in it's original form as a play . The drama , however , was best adapted to the modern stage by the late J. P. Kemble , the finest representative of Prospero , and produced by him at ...
... songs ; and , in 1777 , Sheridan revived it nearly in it's original form as a play . The drama , however , was best adapted to the modern stage by the late J. P. Kemble , the finest representative of Prospero , and produced by him at ...
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... , was again revived with great splendour of scenery , and an introduced Masque and Songs , selected from Shakspeare's Poems and Plays . The Two Gentlemen of Verona . Julia . Lo , 4 The Two Gentlemen of Verona 1595 1595 1595.
... , was again revived with great splendour of scenery , and an introduced Masque and Songs , selected from Shakspeare's Poems and Plays . The Two Gentlemen of Verona . Julia . Lo , 4 The Two Gentlemen of Verona 1595 1595 1595.
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... Lane as a Musical Play , by the addition of songs taken from the author's own works , with original and selected music by H. R. Bishop . The Merry Wives of Windsor . Mrs. Page . Come 6 The Merry Wives of Windsor 1601 1596 1601.
... Lane as a Musical Play , by the addition of songs taken from the author's own works , with original and selected music by H. R. Bishop . The Merry Wives of Windsor . Mrs. Page . Come 6 The Merry Wives of Windsor 1601 1596 1601.
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... , by the insertion of songs from the other works of Shakspeare , composed by Bishop , in which form it was produced at Covent - Garden , December 11th , 1819 . The Comedy of Errors . Justy esi Angelo . Master 10 1593 1591 1591.
... , by the insertion of songs from the other works of Shakspeare , composed by Bishop , in which form it was produced at Covent - Garden , December 11th , 1819 . The Comedy of Errors . Justy esi Angelo . Master 10 1593 1591 1591.
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Seite 33 - All murder'd : for within the hollow crown That rounds the mortal temples of a king Keeps Death his court, and there the antic sits, Scoffing his state and grinning at his pomp...
Seite 63 - Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand ? Come, let me clutch thee. I have thee not, and yet I see thee still. Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible To feeling as to sight ? or art thou but A dagger of the mind, a false creation, Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain ? I see thee yet, in form as palpable As this which now I draw.
Seite 45 - O God ! methinks it were a happy life To be no better than a homely swain : To sit upon a hill, as I do now, To carve out dials quaintly, point by point...
Seite 21 - Tis but an hour ago since it was nine, And after one hour more 'twill be eleven ; And so, from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, And then, from hour to hour, we rot and rot ; And thereby hangs a tale.
Seite 69 - I will in Cassio's lodging lose this napkin, And let him find it. Trifles light as air, Are, to the jealous, confirmations strong As proofs of holy writ.
Seite 31 - For heaven's sake, Hubert, let me not be bound ! Nay, hear me, Hubert ! — drive these men away, And I will sit as quiet as a lamb ; I will not stir, nor wince, nor speak a word, Nor look upon the iron angerly :5 Thrust but these men away, and I'll forgive you, Whatever torment you do put me to.
Seite 154 - Be to her virtues very kind ; Be to her faults a little blind ; Let all her ways be unconfin'd ; And clap your padlock — on her mind.
Seite 100 - Dr. Swift had been observing once to Mr. Gay, what an odd pretty sort of a thing a Newgate Pastoral might make. Gay was inclined to try at such a thing for some time; but afterwards thought it would be better to write a comedy on the same plan. This was what gave rise to The Beggar's Opera.
Seite 64 - The younger sort take much delight in Shakespeare's Venus and Adonis ; but his Lucrece, and his tragedy of Hamlet Prince of Denmarke, have it in them to please the wiser sort, 1598.
Seite 40 - How would it have joyed brave Talbot (the terror of the French) to think that after he had lain two hundred years in his tomb, he should triumph again on the stage, and have his bones new embalmed with the tears of ten thousand spectators at least (at several times) who in the tragedian that represents his person, imagine they behold him fresh bleeding...