| 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,... | |
| 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,... | |
| 1903 - 402 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...to die. 'Tis the most comic part of the whole Play. All Passions may be lively Represented on the Stage, if, 72 LISIDEIUS — IMAGINATION v. SIGHT. [ to... | |
| 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,... | |
| John Matthews Manly - 1916 - 806 páginas
...2 narration of events not shown on the stage AE an hour to kill another in good earnest with them? 00 00 it is the most comic part of the whole play. All passions may be lively represented on the stage, if... | |
| John Matthews Manly - 1916 - 828 páginas
...we know are so blunted, that we might give a man an hour to kill another in good earnest with them? 3 where the gods and giants fought 4 King Arthur 5...and the following are places celebrated in the roma it is the most comic part of the whole play. All passions may be lively represented on the stage, if... | |
| Barrett Harper Clark - 1918 - 544 páginas
...know are so blunted that we might give a man an hour to kill another in good earnest with them. " 1 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 paetiont may be lively represented on the stage, if... | |
| Barrett Harper Clark - 1918 - 532 páginas
...know are so blunted that we might give a mun an hour to kill another in good earnest with them. " 1 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 pastiom may be lively represented on the stage, if... | |
| John Matthews Manly - 1926 - 928 páginas
...narration of events not shown e~^ the stage Л.Я. an hour to kill another in good earnest with them? all the wonder that would be. — In the Spring a fuller crimson comes upon the robin's ; it is the most comic part of the whole play. All passions may be lively represented on the stage,... | |
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