 | Philip Massinger, William Gifford - 1840 - Страниц: 634
...(Ay lantern light her home ; ! hen took into the town, and tell If no tuch tradesmen there do well. imagination, and assimilated to common life; the diction...exquisitely harmonious, and soft or sprightly as occasion require*." Pew people» I believe, will think this character of t At fair Penitent too lavish on the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1842 - Страниц: 716
...a sign. 'The Fair Penitent," his next production, (1703,) is one of the most pleasing tragedies on , requiries. The character of Lothario seems to have been expanded by Richardson into Lovelace ; but... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1843 - Страниц: 718
...a sign. "The Fair Penitent," his next production, (1703,) is one of the most pleasing tragedies on eligion h 8 ag occasion requiries. The character of Lothario seems to have been expanded by Richardson into Lovelace... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1846 - Страниц: 714
...a sign. "The Fair Penitent," his next production, (1703,) is one of the most pleasing tragedies on the stage, where it still keeps its turns of appearing,...them, for there is scarcely any work of any poet at onca so interesting by the fable, and so delightful by the language. The story is domestic, and therefore... | |
 | Joseph Welch - 1852 - Страниц: 760
...Dr. Johnson, however, says, "The 'Fair Penitent' is one of the most pleasing tragedies on the stage, for there is scarcely any work of any poet at once...the fable, and so delightful by the language." The same biographer says of Rowe's translation of the Pharsalia of Lucan, published after his death in... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - Страниц: 344
...upon a sign. Tlie Fair Penitent, his next production (1703), is one of the most pleasing tragedies on the stage, where it still keeps its turns of appearing,...easily received by the imagination, and assimilated to c,immon life; the diction is exquisitely harmonious, and soft or sprightly as occasion requires.* The... | |
 | William Davenport Adams - 1880 - Страниц: 724
...of Massinger. It is " one of the most pleasing tragedies on the stage. The story," aiys Dr. Johnson, "is domestic, and therefore easily received by the...; the diction is exquisitely harmonious, and soft and sprightly as occasion require»." >SV<- CALISTA and LOTUAHIO. "Fair pledges of a fruitful tree."... | |
 | Lord William Pitt Lennox - 1881 - Страниц: 332
...tragedies on the stage, where it still keeps its turn of appearing, and, probably, will long keep it, since there is scarcely any work of any poet at once so interesting in the fable, and so delightful iu the language." Notwithstanding the above prediction, this tragedy... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1890 - Страниц: 474
...a sign. The " Fair Penitent," his next production (1703), is one of- the most pleasing tragedies on the stage, where it still keeps its turns of appearing,...interesting by the fable, and so delightful by the language, j The story is domestick, and therefore easily received by the imagination, and assimilated to common... | |
 | John Dennis - 1896 - Страниц: 276
...reader, though he may question the high eulogium of Johnson, that " scarcely any work of any poet is at once so interesting by the fable, and so delightful by the language." Rowe has not the tragic power which can express passion without rant, and pathos without extravagance.... | |
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The Fair Penitent, his next production (1703), is one of the most pleasing tragedies on the stage, where . it still keeps its turns of appearing, and probably will long keep them, for there is scarcely any work of any poet at once so interesting by the... 
