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Page 257
... Plautus and Terence should come forth diminished in weight and substance , after having been subject- ed to the alembic of modern criticism . That which survives the investigation , however , is of a solid and valuable character . If ...
... Plautus and Terence should come forth diminished in weight and substance , after having been subject- ed to the alembic of modern criticism . That which survives the investigation , however , is of a solid and valuable character . If ...
Page 259
... Plautus and Terence . Of these , the former appears the more original , the latter the more elegant author . The comedies of Plautus are much more connected with manners , -much more full of what may ESSAY ON THE DRAMA . 259.
... Plautus and Terence . Of these , the former appears the more original , the latter the more elegant author . The comedies of Plautus are much more connected with manners , -much more full of what may ESSAY ON THE DRAMA . 259.
Page 260
... Plautus is supposed to have infused a much stronger national tone into his plays than can be traced in those of Terence . They are also of a ruder cast , and more extravagant , retaining , perhaps , a larger portion of the rough horse ...
... Plautus is supposed to have infused a much stronger national tone into his plays than can be traced in those of Terence . They are also of a ruder cast , and more extravagant , retaining , perhaps , a larger portion of the rough horse ...
Page 279
... Plautus and Terence banish from my sight , Lest rage should teach these injured wits to join , And their dumb books cry shame on works like mine . To vulgar standards , then , I frame my play , Writing at ease ; for , since the public ...
... Plautus and Terence banish from my sight , Lest rage should teach these injured wits to join , And their dumb books cry shame on works like mine . To vulgar standards , then , I frame my play , Writing at ease ; for , since the public ...
Page 288
... Plautus , and continued to play their frolics during the mid- ages , when the legitimate Drama was unknown . For the former fact , sculpture , as well as tradition , is appealed to by Italian antiquaries , who have dis- covered the ...
... Plautus , and continued to play their frolics during the mid- ages , when the legitimate Drama was unknown . For the former fact , sculpture , as well as tradition , is appealed to by Italian antiquaries , who have dis- covered the ...
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Page 341 - On this unworthy scaffold to bring forth So great an object; can this cockpit hold The vasty fields of France? or may we cram Within this wooden O the very casques That did affright the air at Agincourt?
Page 348 - I saw Hamlet Prince of Denmark played, but now the old plays began to disgust this refined age, since his Majesties being so long abroad.
Page 277 - And let those that play your clowns, speak no more than is set down for them : for there be of them, that will themselves laugh, to set on some quantity of barren spectators to laugh too ; though, in the mean time, some necessary question of the play be then to be considered: that's villainous; and . shows a most pitiful ambition in the fool that uses it.
Page 341 - Piece out our imperfections with your thoughts: Into a thousand parts divide one man, And make imaginary puissance; Think when we talk of horses that you see them Printing their proud hoofs i...
Page 305 - Time is of all modes of existence most obsequious to the imagination; a lapse of years is as easily conceived as a passage of hours. In contemplation we easily contract the time of real actions and therefore willingly permit it to be contracted when we only see their imitation.
Page 359 - I have pleaded guilty to all thoughts and expressions of mine which can be truly argued of obscenity, profaneness, or immorality, and retract them. If he be my enemy, let him triumph ; if he be my friend, as I have given him no personal occasion to be otherwise, he will be glad of my repentance.
Page 359 - I shall say the less of Mr. Collier, because in many things he has taxed me justly; and I have pleaded guilty to all thoughts and expressions of mine, which can be truly argued of obscenity, profaneness, or immorality, and retract them.
Page 280 - 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. Upon the back of that comes out a hideous monster, with fire and smoke, and then the miserable beholders are bound to take it for a cave. While in the meantime two armies fly in, represented with four swords and bucklers, and then what hard heart will not receive it for a pitched field?
Page 280 - Afric of the other, and so many other under-kingdoms, that the player, when he comes in, must ever begin with telling where he is, or else the tale will not be conceived?
Page 50 - Call you that desperate, which, by a line Of institution, from our ancestors Hath been derived down to us, and received In a succession for the noblest way Of breeding up our youth, in letters, arms, Fair mien, discourses, civil exercise, And all the blazon of a gentleman ? Where can he learn to vault, to ride, to fence, To move his body...