 I am greatly struck with the tragedy of Douglas, though it has infinite faults : the author seems to me to have retrieved the true language of the stage, which had been lost for these hundred years ; and there is one scene (between Matilda and the old...  Biographia Dramatica: Names of the dramas: A-L - Page 171by David Erskine Baker - 1812Full view - About this book
 | Oliver Goldsmith, Sir James Prior - 1854 - 564 pages
...f!ray says, 'I am greatly struek with the tragedy of Douglas, though it has infinite faults: the author seems to me to have retrieved the true language of the stage, whieh had been lost for these hundred years ; and there is one seene (between Matilda and the old peasant)... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1855 - 542 pages
...tragedy of Douglas," says Gray in one of his letters, "has infinite faults ; but there is one scene (that between Matilda and the Old Peasant) so masterly, that it strikes me blind to all the defects of the piece." These, I apprehend, are the natural impressions of genuine taste in pronouncing on the... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1856 - 560 pages
...says, ' I am greatly struck with the tragedy of Douglas, though it has infinite faults: the author seems to me to have retrieved the true language of...peasant) so masterly, that it strikes me blind to alt the defects in the work.' " — Mason's Gray, vol. ip 357.] » [" The structure of the story somewhat... | |
 | American essays - 1902 - 902 pages
...far," that would be received in 1756. So delicate a critic as Gray wrote that the author of Douglas " seems to me to have retrieved the true language of...stage, which had been lost for these hundred years." During the first performance at Edinburgh, a youthful and perfervid Scot leaped to his legs in the... | |
 | English Drama (Collections) - 1859 - 828 pages
...subject ; and Mr. Gray observes, in a letter, 1757 . u There is one scene (between Matilda and the Peasant) so masterly, that it strikes me blind to all the defects in the world." DRAMATIS PERSONS. As originally acted in EDINBURGH, 1756. NORVAL, Mr. Digges LORD RANDOLPH, Mr. Young... | |
 | Dr. Doran (John) - Actors - 1865 - 434 pages
...in March, 1757, London confirmed the judgment of the city in the north. Gray declared that Home had retrieved the true language of the stage, which had been lost for a century. The Prince of Wales conferred a pension on the expelled minister, and Sheridan sent to Home... | |
 | Dr. Doran (John) - Actors - 1865 - 438 pages
...in March, 1757, London confirmed the judgment of the city in- the north. Gray declared that Home had retrieved the true language of the stage, which had been lost for a century. The Prince of Wales conferred a pension on the expelled minister, and Sheridan sent to Iloine... | |
 | Dr. Doran (John), John Doran - Actors - 1880 - 454 pages
...in March, 1757, London confirmed the judgment of the city in the north. Gray declared that Home had retrieved the true language of the stage, which had been lost for a century. The Prince of Wales conferred a pension on the expelled minister, and Sheridan sent to Home... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1881 - 556 pages
...struck with the tragedy of 'Douglas,' though it has infinite faults. The author seems to me to tiave retrieved the true language of the stage, which had...strikes me blind to all the defects in the world."— GRAY (Mitford's "Gray," vol. iii. p. 160), 16th of August, 1757. sentiment, plot, or characters ;'... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1883 - 596 pages
...expressions—"! am greatly struck with the tragedy of 'Douglas,' though it has infinite faults ; the author seems to me to have retrieved the true language of...masterly, that it strikes me blind to all the defects iu the world."] I. HOME, thou return'st from Thames, whose Naiads long Have seen thee lingering with... | |
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