 ... the latter part of the tragedy is nothing but a confusion of drums and trumpets, excursions and alarms. The chief persons, who give name to the tragedy, are left alive; Cressida is false, and is not punished.  MacMillan's Magazine - Page 351edited by - 1897Full view - About this book
 | John Dryden, Edmond Malone - English prose literature - 1800 - 591 pages
...quarto, one with the date already drums and trumpets, excursions and alarms. The chief persons who give name to the tragedy, are left alive : Cressida is false, and is not punished. Yet after all, because the play was Shakspeare's, and that there appeared in some places of it the... | |
 | John Dryden - 1800 - 624 pages
...quarto, one with the date already drums and trumpets, excursions and alarms. The chief persons who give name to the tragedy, are left alive : Cressida is false, and is not punished. Yet after all, because the play was Shakspeare's, and that there appeared in some places of it the... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - English literature - 1808 - 500 pages
...is nothing but a confusion of drums and trumpets, excursions and alarms. The chief persons, who give name to the tragedy, are left alive; Cressida is false, and is not punished. Yet, after all, because the play was Shakespeare's, and that there appeared in some places of it the... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1821 - 502 pages
...is nothing but a confusion of drums and trumpets, excursions and alarms. The chief persons, who give name to the tragedy, are left alive ; Cressida is false, and is not punished. Yet, after all, because the play was Shakespeare's, and that there appeared in some places of it the... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1843 - 406 pages
...the ' Troilus and Cressida ' into a regular tragedy. He complains that " the chief persons who give name to the tragedy are left alive: Cressida is false, and is not punished." The excitement of pity and terror, we are told, is the only * Literary Remains, vol. ii. p. l83. ground... | |
 | 1897 - 986 pages
...sums up the tale, "All's done, my lord," Troilus has no other answer but, "It is." A Ride to Baalbec. One could be glad if all were Indeed done and if the...stilted artifice of the stage of Charles the Second. From Travel. A KIIJK TO BAALBEC. A slight difference of opinion with the government had caused me to... | |
 | Scotland - 1845 - 842 pages
...tragedy is nothing but a confusion of drums and trumpets, excursions, and alarms. The persons who give name to the tragedy are left alive. Cressida is false, and is not punished. Yet, after all, because the play was Shakspeare's, and that there appeared in some places of it the... | |
 | John Wilson - Criticism - 1846 - 360 pages
...tragedy is nothing but a confusion of drums and trumpets, excursions and alarms. The persons who give name to the tragedy are left alive. Cressida is false, and is not punished. Yet, after all, because the play was Shakspeare's, and that there appeared in some places of it the... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1849 - 582 pages
...and Cressida ' into a regular tragedy. He complains, we have seen, that " the chief persons who gire name to the tragedy are left alive: Cressida is false and is not punished." The excitement of pity and terror, we sre told, is the only ground of tragedy. Tragedy, too, must have... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1852 - 708 pages
...the ' Troilus and Creasida' into a regular tragedy. He complains that " the chief persons who give name to the tragedy are left alive : Cressida is false, and is not punished." The excitement of pity and terror, we are told, is the only ground of tragedy. Tragedy, too, must have... | |
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