pt. 2. Historical account of the English stage. Emendations and additions. Tempest. Two gentlemen of VeronaH. Baldwin, 1790 |
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... ANCIENT THEATRES . THE HE drama before the time of Shakspeare was fo little cultivated , or fo ill understood , that to many it may appear unneceffary to carry our theatrical researches higher than that period . Dryden has truly ...
... ANCIENT THEATRES . THE HE drama before the time of Shakspeare was fo little cultivated , or fo ill understood , that to many it may appear unneceffary to carry our theatrical researches higher than that period . Dryden has truly ...
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... ancient dramatick exhibitions , though I car 1 can add but little to the researches which have already been made on that fubject . Orlando Furiofo Jeronimo Spanish Tragedy , or Hieronimo is mad again 1588 Alphonfus king of Arra- gon ...
... ancient dramatick exhibitions , though I car 1 can add but little to the researches which have already been made on that fubject . Orlando Furiofo Jeronimo Spanish Tragedy , or Hieronimo is mad again 1588 Alphonfus king of Arra- gon ...
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... ancient in Europe , has claimed for his country an honour to which it is not entitled . The era of the earliest representation in Italy , founded on holy writ , he has placed in the year 1264 , when the fraternity del Gonfalone was ...
... ancient in Europe , has claimed for his country an honour to which it is not entitled . The era of the earliest representation in Italy , founded on holy writ , he has placed in the year 1264 , when the fraternity del Gonfalone was ...
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... ancient Greek tragedy was a religious fpectacle , a tranfition was made on the fame plan ; and the choruffes were turned into Christian hymns . Gregory wrote many facred dramas " At Conftantinople " ( as Mr. Warton has elsewhere ...
... ancient Greek tragedy was a religious fpectacle , a tranfition was made on the fame plan ; and the choruffes were turned into Christian hymns . Gregory wrote many facred dramas " At Conftantinople " ( as Mr. Warton has elsewhere ...
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... ancient as well as moft complete collection of this kind is , The Chefter Myfteries , which were written by Ralph Higden , a Monk of the Abbey of Chefter , about the year 1328 , of which a particular account will be found below . 7❝In ...
... ancient as well as moft complete collection of this kind is , The Chefter Myfteries , which were written by Ralph Higden , a Monk of the Abbey of Chefter , about the year 1328 , of which a particular account will be found below . 7❝In ...
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Página 57 - Some heavenly music, (which even now I do) To work mine end upon their senses, that This airy charm is for, I'll break my staff, Bury it certain fathoms in the earth, And, deeper than did ever plummet sound, I'll drown my book.
Página 56 - To hear the solemn curfew ; by whose aid (Weak masters though ye be) I have be-dimm'd The noontide sun , call'd forth the mutinous winds , And 'twixt the green sea and the azur'd vault Set roaring war: to the dread rattling thunder Have I given fire , and rifted Jove's stout oak With his own bolt...
Página 19 - Were I in England now, as once I was, and had but this fish painted, not a holiday fool there but would give a piece of silver. There would this monster make a man. Any strange beast there makes a man. When they will not give a doit to relieve a lame beggar, they will lay out ten to see a dead Indian.
Página 63 - O ! wonder ! How many goodly creatures are there here ! How beauteous mankind is ! O brave new world, That has such people in't ! Pro. Tis new to thee.
Página 9 - I' the commonwealth I would by contraries Execute all things; for no kind of traffic Would I admit; no name of magistrate; Letters should not be known; riches, poverty, And use of service, none; contract, succession, Bourn, bound of land, tilth, vineyard, none; No use of metal, corn, or wine, or oil; No occupation; all men idle, all; And women too, but innocent and pure; No sovereignty; — Seb.
Página 56 - True, representing some principal pieces of the reign of Henry the Eighth, which was set forth with many extraordinary circumstances of pomp and majesty, even to the matting of the stage ; the Knights of the order, with their Georges and Garter, the guards with their embroidered coats and the like; sufficient, in truth, within a while to make greatness very familiar, if not ridiculous.
Página 71 - There was a great engine at the lower end of the room, which had motion, and in it were the images of seahorses, with other terrible fishes, which were ridden by Moors. The indecorum was, that there was all fish and no water.
Página 68 - ... the player when he cometh in, must ever begin with telling where he is, or else the tale will not be conceived. Now ye shall have three ladies walk to gather flowers, and then we must believe the stage to be a garden. By and by we hear news of shipwreck in the same place, and then we are to blame if we accept it not for a rock.