| Samuel Johnson - 1800 - 714 pages
...'suppose* vicissitudes of dramatick fashion. Of this play nothing new can easily be saidIt is a domestick trag'edy drawn from middle life. Its whole power is...comprehension of thought or elegance of expression. But if the heart is interested, many other beauties may be wanting, yet not be missed. The same year... | |
| Great Britain - 1804 - 716 pages
...dramatick fashion. Of this play nothing new can easily be said. It is a domestick tragedy drawn fiom middle life. Its whole power is upon the affections...comprehension of thought or elegance of expression. But if the heart is interested, many other beauties may be wanting, yet not be missed. The same year... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 654 pages
...in 1680. This is one of the few plays that keep possession of the stage, and has pleased for almost a century, through all the vicissitudes of dramatic...comprehension of thought, or elegance of expression. But if the heart is interested, many other beauties may be wanting, yet not be missed. ' The same year... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 476 pages
...the vicissitudes of dramatick fashion. Of this play nothing new can easily be said. It is a domestick tragedy drawn from middle life. Its whole power is...comprehension of thought, or elegance of expression. But if the heart is interested, many other beauties may be wanting, yet not be missed. The same year... | |
| Frederick Nolan - 1810 - 396 pages
...tragedy, and therefore strongly fastens on the attentions of the reader."*— " The Orphan is a domestick tragedy drawn from middle life. Its whole power is...comprehension of thought, or elegance of expression. But if the heart is interested many other beauties may be wanting, yet not be missed'" 1 —" This... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 420 pages
...vicisill'd. situdesrof dramatick fashion. Of this play nothing new can easily he said. It is a domestick tragedy drawn from middle life. Its whole power is...comprehension of thought, or elegance of expression. But if the heart is interested, many other beauties may be wa.iting, yet not be missed. The same year... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 420 pages
...the vicissiludes of dramatick fashion. Of this play nothing new can easily be said. It is a domestick tragedy drawn. from middle life. Its whole power is...comprehension of thought, or elegance of expression. But if the heart is interested, many other beauties may be wanting, yet not be missed. The same year... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1815 - 494 pages
...pieces," says Dr. Johnson, " that keep possession of the stage, and has pleased for almost (more lhan) a century, through all the vicissitudes of dramatic...been conjectured, but to us they appear too obscure forv application, and were they otherwise, cannot now be felt. The " Soldier's Fortune," and its second... | |
| Thomas Otway - 1812 - 508 pages
...fashion. Of this play nothing *'A -/-><~=/.y new can easily be said. It is a domestic tragedy 7 ' " ' ' 2f drawn from middle life. Its whole power is upon the...allusions have been conjectured, but to us they appear X/". /37 xz:^- .j-»7^> SL~S ? [^MS*.*] "-TS— ' s too obscure for application, and were they otherwise,... | |
| David Erskine Baker - 1812 - 492 pages
...observes, " it is one " of the few pieces that keep " possession of the stage, and has " pleased for almost a century, " through all the vicissitudes of " dramatic...comprehension of thought, or " elegance of expression. But if " the heart is interested, many " other beauties may be wanting, " yet not be missed." Voltaire,... | |
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