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Pagina xiii
... never seen such a first play , and lent his services to bring it into a form fit for representation . Nothing was wanted to the success of the piece . It was 1 " There seems to be a strange affectation in authors of appear- ing to have ...
... never seen such a first play , and lent his services to bring it into a form fit for representation . Nothing was wanted to the success of the piece . It was 1 " There seems to be a strange affectation in authors of appear- ing to have ...
Pagina xvi
... never so much liked , as The Old Bachelor . In 1695 appeared Love for Love , superior both in wit and in scenic effect to either of the pre- ceding plays . It was performed at a new theatre which Betterton and some other actors ...
... never so much liked , as The Old Bachelor . In 1695 appeared Love for Love , superior both in wit and in scenic effect to either of the pre- ceding plays . It was performed at a new theatre which Betterton and some other actors ...
Pagina xviii
... never mention without respect . Jeremy Collier was a clergyman of the Church of England , bred at Cambridge . His talents and attainments were such as might have been expected to raise him to the highest honours of his profession . He ...
... never mention without respect . Jeremy Collier was a clergyman of the Church of England , bred at Cambridge . His talents and attainments were such as might have been expected to raise him to the highest honours of his profession . He ...
Pagina xxxii
... never again to expose himself to the rudeness of a tasteless audience , and took leave of the theatre for ever . He lived twenty - eight years longer without adding to the high literary reputation which he had attained . He read much ...
... never again to expose himself to the rudeness of a tasteless audience , and took leave of the theatre for ever . He lived twenty - eight years longer without adding to the high literary reputation which he had attained . He read much ...
Pagina xxxiv
... never measured his strength with them ; and he was always loud in applause of their exertions . They could , therefore , entertain no jealousy of him , and thought no more of detract- ing from his fame than of carping at the great 1 " I ...
... never measured his strength with them ; and he was always loud in applause of their exertions . They could , therefore , entertain no jealousy of him , and thought no more of detract- ing from his fame than of carping at the great 1 " I ...
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Pagina iii - What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid! Heard words that have been So nimble and so full of subtle flame As if that every one from whence they came Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest, And had resolved to live a fool the rest Of his dull life.
Pagina 380 - ... to the play in a mask— then bring you home in a pretended fright, when you think you shall be found out— and rail at me for missing the play, and disappointing the frolic which you had to pick me up, and prove my constancy.
Pagina 434 - How reverend is the face of this tall pile. Whose ancient pillars rear their marble heads. To bear aloft its arched and ponderous roof, By its own weight made steadfast and immovable. Looking tranquillity! It strikes an awe And terror on my aching sight; the tombs And monumental caves of death look cold. And shoot a dullness to my trembling heart.
Pagina xv - I live a rent-charge on his providence: But you, whom every muse and grace adorn, Whom I foresee to better fortune born, Be kind to my remains; and oh defend, Against your judgment, your departed friend! Let not the insulting foe my fame pursue; But shade those laurels which descend to you: And take for tribute what these lines express; You merit more; nor could my love do less.
Pagina 386 - For he's drunk every night, And that makes him so bright, That he's able next morning to light us. The sun's a good pimple, an honest soaker, he has a cellar at your Antipodes. If I travel, aunt, I touch at your Antipodes - your Antipodes are a good rascally sort of topsy-turvy fellows - if I had a bumper, I'd stand upon my head and drink a health to 'em.
Pagina iii - Souls of Poets, dead and gone, What Elysium have ye known, Happy field or mossy cavern, Choicer than the Mermaid Tavern?
Pagina 343 - Why do we daily commit disagreeable and dangerous actions? To save that idol, reputation. If the familiarities of our loves had produced that consequence of which you were apprehensive, where could you have fixed a father's name with credit, but on a husband?
Pagina 328 - Ay; but I like him for that now: for his want of words gives me the pleasure very often to explain his meaning. FAIN. He's impudent? WIT. No that's not it.
Pagina 401 - Next, my wife shall settle on me the remainder of her fortune, not made over already ; and for her maintenance depend entirely on my discretion. LADY. This is most inhumanly savage : exceeding the barbarity of a Muscovite husband.
Pagina 409 - ... some cautions respecting your inconstancy and tyranny of temper, which from her own partial opinion and fondness of you she could never have suspected — she did, I say, by the wholesome advice of friends, and of sages learned in the laws of this land, deliver this same as her act and deed to me in trust, and to the uses within mentioned.