 | Dr. Doran (John) - 1888 - 570 páginas
...of those days is something doubtful, if that be true which Dryden affirms, that he observed, namely, that "in all our tragedies the audience cannot forbear...die : 'tis the most comic part of the whole play." He says, all our tragedies ; but we know that such was not the case when the heroes of Shakspeare,... | |
 | 1886 - 788 páginas
...in his " Essay on Dramatic Poesy ", gives us a notion of the audience of his day : "I have observed 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." And Steele may perhaps be trusted for his account of... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1892 - 428 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,... | |
 | John Dryden - 1892 - 428 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,... | |
 | John Dryden - 1898 - 232 páginas
...are so blunted, that we might give a man an hour to kill another in good earnest with them. • 15 " I have observed that in all our tragedies, the audience...to die; 'tis the most comic part of the whole play. A\\ passions may be lively represented on the stage, if to the well-writing of them the actor sup 20... | |
 | John Dryden - 1898 - 224 páginas
...know are so blunted, that we might give a man an hour to kill another in good earnest with them. 15 : I have observed that in all our tragedies, the 'audience...actors are to die.; 'tis the most comic part of the play. All passions may be lively represented on the .jj stage, if to the well-writing of them the actor... | |
 | John Dryden - 1900 - 420 páginas
...might give a man an hour to kill another in good earnest with them. 1 to which we are subject, BC. ' 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 - 1900 - 412 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,... | |
 | David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Walter Morris - 1906 - 1076 páginas
...as the author intended. " I have observed," says Lisideius in Dryden's ESSAY OF DRAMATIC POESIE, " 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." In 1647, a^ter two disappointments, Corneille's candidature... | |
 | Arthur Woollgar Verrall - 1914 - 322 páginas
...assigned to Lisideius, on dying on the stage there is an excellent touch in the ' Roman gladiator ' : — 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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... other side is to drive in before him; or to see a duel fought and one slain with two or three thrusts of the... 
