The Critic: Or, A Tragedy Rehearsed: a FarceJ.M. Dent, 1897 - 94 Seiten |
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The Critic: Or, A Tragedy Rehearsed - A Dramatic Piece in Three Acts Richard Brinsley Sheridan Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 2009 |
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actors admirable advertisements amazement lost Armada Beef Beefeater believe called certainly character comedy Confidant Critic Curtain damned Dang Dangle's House dear Dangle Don Ferolo Whiskerandos Drury Lane Theatre egad Enter Tilburina Exeunt Exit farce fleet G. A. AITKEN gallant Raleigh gentlemen governor hath hear heroine honour Hopkins humour Interp justice Kneels Lady laughed Leic Lord Burleigh mad in white madam managers monsieur Dangle morning never Nieces piece plague play pray pretty Promp Puff's tragedy RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN Richard Fitzpatrick ridiculous School for Scandal Signor Past SIGNOR PASTICCIO RITORNELLO Sir Christ Sir Christopher Hatton Sir Flimsy Sir Fretful Plagiary Sir Walt Sir Walter Raleigh Sneer Spanish Spanish Armada stage stolen suppose sure swords tablature taste Thames theatrical there's thing thou Tilb Tilbury Tilbury Fort Tragedy Rehearsed true under-plot up.-[Exit Servant Vosignoria Whisk
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Seite 28 - The newspapers! Sir, they are the most villainous — licentious — abominable — infernal — Not that I ever read them — no — I make it a rule never to look into a newspaper.
Seite 86 - Why, by that shake of the head, he gave you to understand that even though they had more justice in their cause, and wisdom in their measures — yet, if there was not a greater spirit shown on the part of the people, the country would at last fall a sacrifice to the hostile ambition of the Spanish monarchy.
Seite 31 - Ha! Sneer. In short, that even the finest passages you steal are of no service to you; for the poverty of your own language prevents their assimilating; so that they lie on the surface like lumps of marl on a barren moor, encumbering what it is not in their power to fertilise!
Seite 52 - ... his own interest, he will take advantage of it ; so, sir, I call my tragedy The Spanish Armada; and have laid the scene before Tilbury Fort.
Seite 65 - Ay, this is always the way at the theatre: give these fellows a good thing, and they never know when to have done with it.
Seite 47 - But the Puff collusive is the newest of any ; for it acts in the disguise of determined hostility. It is much used by bold booksellers and enterprising poets. An indignant correspondent observes — that the new poem called "Beelzebub's...
Seite 26 - Believe me, Mr. Sneer, there is no person for whose judgment I have a more implicit deference. But I protest to you, Mr. Sneer, I am only apprehensive that the incidents are too crowded. My dear Dangle, how does it strike you ? Dang.
Seite 29 - Well, and pray now — not that it signifies — what might the gentleman say ? Sneer. Why, he roundly asserts that you have not the slightest invention or original genius whatever, though you are the greatest traducer of all other authors living. Sir Fret.
Seite 40 - ... their phraseology with variegated chips of exotic metaphor ; by me, too, their inventive faculties were called forth — yes, sir, by me they were instructed to clothe ideal walls with gratuitous fruits ; to insinuate obsequious rivulets into visionary groves; to teach courteous shrubs to nod their approbation of the grateful soil ; or on emergencies to raise upstart oaks, where there never had been an acorn; to create a delightful vicinage without the assistance of a neighbour ; or fix the temple...