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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... shew pages of his comedy , where a brilliant witticism is so buried in nonsense as to be scarcely perceptible . If in his tragedies he some- times seizes an occasion to be comic , we must also allow that in his professed come- dies he ...
... shew pages of his comedy , where a brilliant witticism is so buried in nonsense as to be scarcely perceptible . If in his tragedies he some- times seizes an occasion to be comic , we must also allow that in his professed come- dies he ...
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... shew how well he merits this pane- gyric . As his works are scarce , I quote with the less scruple . In " Every Man out of his Humour , " one of the characters answers a question concerning the laws of comedy in this manner . " If those ...
... shew how well he merits this pane- gyric . As his works are scarce , I quote with the less scruple . In " Every Man out of his Humour , " one of the characters answers a question concerning the laws of comedy in this manner . " If those ...
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... shew that English plays of very con- siderable interest may be founded . It would differ from it in having the musical parts more accidental , shorter , more varied , and distributed amongst all the actors . Nevertheless , considering ...
... shew that English plays of very con- siderable interest may be founded . It would differ from it in having the musical parts more accidental , shorter , more varied , and distributed amongst all the actors . Nevertheless , considering ...
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... shew na- ture in her distortions , and to raise the laugh of the vulgar rather than the smile of the judicious . His stile is highly cen- surable on every account , but , such as it is , he has brought it to perfection , and it may ...
... shew na- ture in her distortions , and to raise the laugh of the vulgar rather than the smile of the judicious . His stile is highly cen- surable on every account , but , such as it is , he has brought it to perfection , and it may ...
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... shew the errors , which an author treating the same subject , had to avoid . After some remarks sufficiently cold and formal , upon the numerous beauties of this tragedy , he becomes thus lively as soon as he ap- proaches its defects ...
... shew the errors , which an author treating the same subject , had to avoid . After some remarks sufficiently cold and formal , upon the numerous beauties of this tragedy , he becomes thus lively as soon as he ap- proaches its defects ...
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
affection Arax Assur Azema Babylon Beaumont and Fletcher beauty Belford Ben Jonson Betty bless character Clytemnestra comedy Crebillon crime croud daughter Dazzle dear death DESMOND dialogue dread E'en Electra Emily Enter Euripides Everard Exeunt Exit eyes fame fancy father fault fear feelings Ferd Flush follow forgive Gius give happy hate hear heard heart heaven honor honor'd hope is-I Julia King Lady Lovell Laura leave LORD DORMER Louisa lov'd Lovec Lovechild Lucy madam March marriage Mellef Mellefont Melville Meres mighty Mitranes mother nature never Ninus noble o'er O'Neale Orestes Oroes pardon passion play poor pray Queen sacred SCENE Semiramis Sennacherib Sethar Shakespeare shew smile Soph soul speak sure tear tell thee thou thought thro throne tion tragedy twas virtue Voltaire wish woman wound wretch youth
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Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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...
Seite 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.
Seite 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...
Seite 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...
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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...