| Robert Southey - 1876 - 616 páginas
...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... | |
| Dr. Doran (John), John Doran - 1880 - 456 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, represented... | |
| Dutton Cook - 1883 - 368 páginas
...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... | |
| James Boswell - 1887 - 576 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 illnatured jest from... | |
| 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... | |
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