Names of dramas: A-LLongman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1812 |
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... Acted at Drury Lane . 4to . 1700. This is a translation from the Iphigenia of Racine . It was acted without any success . On the appearance of the Victim , by Charles Johnson , in 1714 , Mr. Boyer republished this play , under the title ...
... Acted at Drury Lane . 4to . 1700. This is a translation from the Iphigenia of Racine . It was acted without any success . On the appearance of the Victim , by Charles Johnson , in 1714 , Mr. Boyer republished this play , under the title ...
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David Erskine Baker Isaac Reed, Stephen Jones. ADE James Pye . Acted at Drury Lane . 8vo . 1800. There is some fine writing in this piece , which will please in the closet ; but it had no interest upon the stage . The story is drawn from ...
David Erskine Baker Isaac Reed, Stephen Jones. ADE James Pye . Acted at Drury Lane . 8vo . 1800. There is some fine writing in this piece , which will please in the closet ; but it had no interest upon the stage . The story is drawn from ...
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David Erskine Baker Isaac Reed, Stephen Jones. ADR ADV Birch . Acted with success at lated from Metastasio , by John Drury Lane . 8vo . 1795 . 53. THE ADOPTED SON . In the first volume of the Poetical Works of William Preston , Esq ...
David Erskine Baker Isaac Reed, Stephen Jones. ADR ADV Birch . Acted with success at lated from Metastasio , by John Drury Lane . 8vo . 1795 . 53. THE ADOPTED SON . In the first volume of the Poetical Works of William Preston , Esq ...
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... Acted at Lincoln's Inn Fields , 1725. N. P. 138. ALEXIS'S PARADISE . Op . 1680 . 139. ALEXIS'S PARADISE ; or , A ... Drury Lane , 1745 . 143. ALFRED . A Masque , by David Mallet . Acted at Drury Lane . 8vo . 1751. This is the play of ...
... Acted at Lincoln's Inn Fields , 1725. N. P. 138. ALEXIS'S PARADISE . Op . 1680 . 139. ALEXIS'S PARADISE ; or , A ... Drury Lane , 1745 . 143. ALFRED . A Masque , by David Mallet . Acted at Drury Lane . 8vo . 1751. This is the play of ...
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... Acted , without success , at the Opera House in the Haymarket , 1792 . This was merely an abridgment of The Strangers at Home , and has not been printed . 151. ALGONAH . Com . Opera , by James Cobb . Acted at Drury Lane , for Mrs ...
... Acted , without success , at the Opera House in the Haymarket , 1792 . This was merely an abridgment of The Strangers at Home , and has not been printed . 151. ALGONAH . Com . Opera , by James Cobb . Acted at Drury Lane , for Mrs ...
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Seite 54 - We were all at the first night of it, in great uncertainty of the event; till we were very much encouraged by overhearing the Duke of Argyle, who sat in the next box to us, say, 'it will do — it must do! — I see it in the eyes of them!
Seite 346 - ... fill the mind with a perpetual tumult of indignation, pity, and hope. There is no scene which does not contribute to the aggravation of the distress or conduct of the action, and scarce a line which does not conduce to the progress of the scene. So powerful is the current of the poet's imagination that the mind which once ventures within it is hurried irresistibly along.
Seite 266 - The apparition left the regions of the dead to little purpose ; the revenge which he demands is not obtained, but by the death of him that was required to take it ; and the gratification, which would arise from the destruction of an usurper and a murderer, is abated by the untimely death of Ophelia, the young, the beautiful, the harmless, and the pious.
Seite 18 - True,' representing some principal pieces of the reign of Henry VIII, 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.
Seite 205 - Statutes in that case made and provided, and against the peace of our Sovereign Lord the King, his crown, and dignity.
Seite 82 - Cato it has been not unjustly determined, that it is rather a poem in dialogue than a drama, rather a succession of just sentiments in elegant language, than a representation of natural affections, or of any state probable or possible in human life. Nothing here excites or asswages emotion; here is no magical power of raising phantastick terror or wild anxiety.
Seite 327 - The Troublesome Raigne of John, King of England, with the Discoverie of King Richard Cordelion's base Son, vulgarly named the Bastard Fawconbridge : also the Death of King John at Swinstead Abbey.
Seite 291 - Falling in the other day at a victualling-house near the house of peers, I heard the maid come down and tell the landlady at the bar, that my lord bishop swore he would throw her out at window, if she did not bring up more mild beer, and that my lord duke would have a double mug of purl.
Seite 266 - ... the natural sentiments of man. New characters appear from time to time in continual succession, exhibiting various forms of life and particular modes of conversation. The pretended madness of Hamlet causes much mirth, the mournful distraction of Ophelia fills the heart with tenderness, and every personage produces the effect intended, from the apparition that in the first act chills the blood with horror, to the fop in the last, that exposes affectation to just contempt.
Seite 128 - Security wherein was personated a King or some great Prince with his Courtiers of...