 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
 | Sir Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller - English literature - 1917 - 488 pages
...the one and licentiousness of the other. " Even Gray, in August, 1757, wrote to Walpole: "The author seems to me to have retrieved the true language of the stage, which has been lost for these 100 years." Age has withered Douglas, and custom staled the declamation of... | |
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