 | Henry Fielding - 1783 - 412 pages
...the poet knows how to manage it, will aireft the audience with greater terror than if it was afted before their eyes. Of this we have an inftance in...the king in Macbeth, at which, when Garrick acts the part, it is fcarce an hyperbole 384 . -C,AUSE/S t0 F THE. r Hyperbole to fay, I have feen the hair... | |
 | Henry Fielding, Arthur Murphy - 1806 - 484 pages
...again assist us. Foreigner! have found fault with the cruelty of the English drama, in representing frequent murders upon the stage. In fact, this is...it was acted before their eyes. Of this we have an instance in the murder of the king in Macbeth, at which, when Garrick acts the. part, it is scarce... | |
 | Henry Fielding - 1882 - 448 pages
...again assist us. Foreigners have found fault with the cruelty of the English drama, in representing frequent murders upon the stage. In fact, this is...it was acted before their eyes. Of this we have an instance in the murder of the king in Macbeth, at which, when Garrick acts the part, it is scarce an... | |
 | Henry Fielding - 1882 - 442 pages
...again assist us. Foreigners have found fault with the cruelty of the English drama, in representing frequent murders upon the stage. In fact, this is...it was acted before their eyes. Of this we have an instance in the murder of the king in Macbeth, at which, when Garrick acts the part, it is scarce an... | |
 | his sister- in law and his eldest daughter - 1893 - 790 pages
...again assist us. Foreigners have found fault with the cruelty of the English drama, in representing frequent murders upon the stage. In fact, this is...it was acted before their eyes. Of this we have an instance in the murder of the king in Macbeth. Terror hath, I believe, been carried higher by this... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1894 - 666 pages
...again assist us. Foreigners have found fault with the cruelty of the English drama, in representing frequent murders upon the stage. In fact, this is...it was acted before their eyes. Of this we have an instance in the murder of the king in " Macbeth." Terror hath, I believe, been carried higher by this... | |
 | Henry Fielding, William Ernest Henley - English literature - 1902 - 318 pages
...again assist us. Foreigners have found fault with the cruelty of the English drama, in representing frequent murders upon the stage. In fact, this is...it was acted before their eyes. Of this we have an instance in the murder of the king in Macbeth, at which, when Garrick acts the part, it is scarce an... | |
 | Henry Fielding - 1903 - 514 pages
...again assist us. Foreigners have found fault with the cruelty of the English drama, in representing frequent murders upon the stage. In fact, this is...it was acted before their eyes. Of this we have an instance in the murder of the king in Macbeth, at which, when Garrick acts the part, it is scarce an... | |
 | Charles Dickens, Frederic George Kitton - English drama - 1908 - 790 pages
...again assist us. Foreigners have found fault with the cruelty of the English drama, in representing frequent murders upon the stage. In fact, this is...it was acted before their eyes. Of this we have an instance in the murder of the King in "Macbeth." Terror hath, I believe, been carried higher by this... | |
 | Caroline Mabel Goad - Comparative literature - 1918 - 662 pages
...of the English i Act 3, Sc. 1 (Wkt. 11. 197). tA. P. 182-188. a Wks. 11. 306. drama, in representing frequent murders upon the stage. In fact, this is...greater terror than if it was acted before their eyes.' And he puts Horace to ludicrous use when, in the Champion for December 15, 1739, 1 he ridicules the... | |
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Foreigners have found fault with the cruelty of the English drama, in representing frequent murders upon the stage. In fact, this is not only cruel but highly injudicious: a murder behind the scenes, if the poet knows how to manage it, will affect the... 
