Critical Reflections on the Old English Dramatick Writers: Intended as a Preface to the Works of Massinger. Addressed to David Garrick, EsqT. Davies, 1761 - 27 pages |
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Page 27 - Her purer soul from her unspotted body.* The slavish Indian princes, when they die, Are cheerfully attended to the fire, By the wife and slave that, living, they loved best, To do them service in another world : Nor will I be less honour'd, that love more.
Page 26 - It were a kind of blasphemy to dispute it ; But to the purpose, sir. Sfor. Add too, her goodness, Her tenderness of me, her care to please me, Her unsuspected chastity, ne'er equall'd ; Her innocence, her honour : — O, I am lost In the ocean of her virtues and her graces, When I think of them ! Fran.
Page 3 - Arts, and the feigning tafte in Letters, are as notorioufly objects of caprice as Architecture and Drefs. A new Poem, or Novel, or Farce, are as inconfiderately extolled or decried as a Ruff or a Chinefe Rail, a Hoop or a Bow Window.
Page 8 - Confine, which denied his extraordinary Talents their full Play, nor gave Scope to the Boundlefnefs of his Imagination. His Witches, Ghofts, Fairies, and other imaginary Beings, fcattered through his Plays, are fo many glaring Violations of the common Table of Dramatick Laws. What then fhall we fay? Shall we confefs their Force and Power over the Soul, fhall we allow them to be Beauties of the moft exquifite Kind, and yet infift on their being expunged?
Page 5 - Beauties, they will cover a Multitude of Inaccuracies ; and that a Play need not be written on the fevereft Plan, to pleafe in the Reprefentation.
Page 10 - I muft know farther, or you have made good But half your Promife.— While my Love flood by» Holding her upright, and my Prefence was A Watch upon her, her Defires being met too With equal Ardour from me, what one Proof Could...
Page 7 - Succeffors) have moft of them, within all our Memories, been ranked among the moft popular Entertainments of the Stage. Yet none of thefe can be denominated Tragedy, Comedy, or Tragi-Comedy. The Play Bills...
Page 19 - Plautus, in his richeft vein of humour, is numerous and poetical. The Comedies of Terence, though we cannot agree to read them after Bifhop Hare, were evidently not written without regard to meafure; which is the invincible reafon, why all attempts to render them into...
Page 23 - Nay, fhould they, together with you, concur in determining that fuch Pieces are unfit to be acted, you, as "well as they, will, I am confident, agree, that fuch Pieces are, at leaft, very worthy to be read. There are many modern Compofitions, feen with Delight at the Theatre, which ficken on the Tafte in the Perufal ; and...
Page 15 - Tis poor, and common : I'll only, with wise men, Whisper unto myself, howe'er they seem, Nor present, nor past times, nor the age to come, Hath heretofore, can now, or ever shall, Produce one constant woman.