The Lives and Characters of the English Dramatick Poets: Also an Exact Account of All the Plays that Were Ever Yet Printed in the English Tongue; Their Double Titles, the Places where Acted, the Dates when Printed, and the Persons to Whom Dedicated; with Remarks and Observations on Most of the Said PlaysT. Leigh, 1698 - Всего страниц: 182 |
Часто встречающиеся слова и выражения
acted affifted Afted alſo Appian Applaufe Author befides Black-Fryars Book Cafar call'd Children of Paul's Comedy dedicated Defign divers Dorfet Dramatick Drury-Lane Dryden Duke Duke's Theatre Dutchefs Earl efteemed English Chronicles faid fame feems feveral fince firft firſt Florus fome French Fryars Gentleman Henry Heroick Hift Hiftory himſelf Honoria and Mammon Houfe ibid Inigo Jones Jofeph John juft King Charles King James King's Lady laft Langbain late leaſt Little Lincolns-Inn-Fields liv'd London Lord Love Love's Lovers Mafque Mafter Majefties Majefty's Servants Maſque moft moſt muſt Number Oroonoko Ovid Oxon Paftoral Perfon Plautus pleaſant Plot confult Plutarch Poems Poet Poetry prefented Prince printed private Houſe publifh'd publiſhed Queen Elizabeth Revenge reviv'd Right Ho Right Honourable Robert Scene ſeveral Story Succefs Suetonius Theatre in Little Theatre Royal thefe theſe thofe Thomas thoſe Title Tragedy Tragi-Comedy tranflated Verfe William writ one Play
Популярные отрывки
Стр. 27 - Complete Angler; or, The Contemplative Man's Recreation : being a Discourse of Rivers, Fishponds. Fish and Fishing, written by IZAAK WALTON ; and Instructions how to Angle for a Trout or Grayling in a clear Stream, by CHARLES COTTON.
Стр. 43 - I see thou art implacable, more deaf To prayers than winds and seas ; yet winds to seas Are reconciled at length, and sea to shore: Thy anger unappeasable, still rages, Eternal tempest, never to be calm'd.
Стр. 79 - THE MASQUE OF QUEENS; CELEBRATED FROM THE HOUSE OF FAME BY THE QUEEN OF GREAT BRITAIN WITH HER LADIES At Whitehall, Feb. 2, 1609. [Dedication.] TO THE GLORY OF OUR OWN, AND GRIEF OF OTHER NATIONS, MY LORD HENRY PRINCE OF GREAT BRITAIN, ETC.
Стр. 22 - The Double Dealer: A COMEDY, Acted at the Theatre Royal by Their Majesties Servants. Written by Mr. CONGREVE.
Стр. 26 - as no age must look to see the like," in his original character of the crafty Richard — Maister Greene, than whom " there was not an actor of his nature, in his time, of better ability in performance of what he undertook, more applaudent by the audience, of greater grace at the court, or of more general love in the Citty...
Стр. 107 - a Tallent, very few of our English Poets have been Master of, in moving the Passions, that are, and ought to be the Aim of all Tragick Poets, Terror and Pity
Стр. 158 - The First Part of the Contention betwixt the two famous Houses of York and Lancaster; with the death of the good Duke Humphrey; and the banishment and death of the Duke of Suffolk; and the tragical end of the proud Cardinal of Winchester: With the notable rebellion of Jack Cade; and the Duke of York's first claim unto the crown.
Стр. 167 - THE ROYAL CUCKOLD ; or, Great Bastard ; giving an Account of the Birth and Pedigree of Lewis le Grand, the first French King of that Name and Race.
Стр. 48 - You fee our Study is to pleafe you all:" evidently aims at Prospero's Epilogue, " my projeft . . was to pleafe." The " Perfons Represented " are] 1 " Thomas Duffel. He was, before he became a Poet, a Milliner in the New Exchange : he has writ four Plays, two of them in a Burlesque Stile.
Стр. 8 - QUEEN CATHARINE ; or, THE RUINES OF LOVE, a Tragedy, as it is Acted at the New Theatre in Little Lincolns Inn Fields, by His Majesty's Servants.