...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;...

...Without a love-intrigue to introduce And sparkify them there." LOBD DIGBY, Elvira, Ibid. p. 161. DBTDEN says, " I have observed that in all our tragedies...Poesy, p. Iviii. He imputes this to bad acting. But I ?uspect it must have been in such tragedies :is his owe. u A H3UBE of the heavenly bodies in their...

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...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, represented...

...possibly old tragedy was not so highly admired as it seemed to be. Even Dryden found occasion to observe that "in all our tragedies the audience cannot forbear...die; 'tis the most comic part of the whole play." But that dramas with "a happy ending" are not indispensably necessary to the comfort of a modern audience...

...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 illnatured jest from...

...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,...

...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...

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...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,...