| James Boswell - 1799 - 640 páginas
...Mr. Garrick.' Davies's Garrick, i. 128. Dryden in his Essay of Dramatick Poesie (edit. 1701, i. 13), says: — 'I have observed that in all our tragedies...laughing when the actors are to die; 'tis the most comick part of the whole play.' 'Suppose your piece admitted, acted ; one single ill-natured jest from... | |
| James Boswell - 1799 - 648 páginas
...Mr. Garrick.' Davies's Garrick, \. 128. Dryden in his Essay of Dramatick Poesie (edit. 1701, i. 13), says: — 'I have observed that in all our tragedies the audience cannot forbear laughing when the acton are to die; 'tis the most comick part of the whole play.' 'Suppose your piece admitted, acted... | |
| John Dryden - 1800 - 624 páginas
...we know are so blunted, that we might give a man an hour to kill another in good earnest with them. I have observed that in all our tragedies, the audience...cannot forbear laughing when the actors are to die ; it is the most comick part of the whole play. All passipns may be lively represented on the stage,... | |
| John Dryden, Edmond Malone - 1800 - 591 páginas
...we know are so. blunted, that we might give a man an hour to kill another in good earnest with them. I have observed that in all our tragedies, the audience...cannot forbear laughing when the actors are to die ; it is the most comick part of the whole play. All passions may be lively "represented on the stage,... | |
| John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808 - 432 páginas
...know are so blunted, that we might give a man an hour to kill another in good earnest with them "-. I have observed, that in all our tragedies the audience...cannot forbear laughing when the actors are to die ; it is the most comic part of the whole play. All passions may be lively represented on the stage,... | |
| John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1821 - 442 páginas
...we know are so blunted, that we might give a man an hour to kill another in good earnest with them ? I have observed, that in all our tragedies the audience...cannot forbear laughing when the actors are to die ; it is the most comic part of the whole play. AH passions may be lively represented on the stage,... | |
| John Dryden, John Mitford - 1836 - 488 páginas
...we know are so blunted, that we might give a man an hour to kill another in good earnest with them ? I have observed, that in all our tragedies the audience...cannot forbear laughing when the actors are to die ; it is the most comic part of the whole play. All passions may be lively represented on the stage,... | |
| Robert Southey - 1849 - 656 páginas
...Without a love-intrigue to introduce And sparkify them there." LORD DIODT, Elvira, Ibid. p. 161. DBYDEN says, " I have observed that in all our tragedies...it must have been in such tragedies as his own. "A FIGURE of the heavenly bodies in their several apartments, February 5, halfan-hour after three, after... | |
| William Spalding - 1853 - 446 páginas
...we know are so blunted, that we might give a man an hour to kill another in good earnest with them? I have observed, that in all our tragedies, the audience...cannot forbear laughing when the actors are to die : it is the most comic part of the whole play. All passions may be lively represented on the stage... | |
| William Spalding - 1854 - 446 páginas
...we know are so blunted, that we might give a man an hour to kill another in good earnest with them? I have observed, that, in all our tragedies, the audience...cannot forbear laughing when the actors are to die : it is the most comic part of the whole play. All passions may be lively represented on the stage... | |
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