The Works of His Grace George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham: Containing His Plays and Miscellanies in Prose and Verse, with Explanatory Notes and Memoirs of the Author ...T. Evans, 1770 |
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Page xxvi
... thefe new - fashioned plays , and to exhibit in a clear light the trash of which they were fo fond . He therefore wrote the celebrated Re- hearsal ; this play , as it is the best known of all our noble author's productions , fo it has ...
... thefe new - fashioned plays , and to exhibit in a clear light the trash of which they were fo fond . He therefore wrote the celebrated Re- hearsal ; this play , as it is the best known of all our noble author's productions , fo it has ...
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... thefe became ftill in greater vogue from Mr. Dryden's example , who was much admired and highly applauded , though he fell into the wild and licentious hu- mour of thofe times . The duke therefore refolved to change the name of his poet ...
... thefe became ftill in greater vogue from Mr. Dryden's example , who was much admired and highly applauded , though he fell into the wild and licentious hu- mour of thofe times . The duke therefore refolved to change the name of his poet ...
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... Thefe my rules . He who wrote this , not without pain and thought From French and English theatres , has brought Th ' exacteft rules by which a play is wrought , The unity of action , place and time ; The scenes unbroken ; and a mingled ...
... Thefe my rules . He who wrote this , not without pain and thought From French and English theatres , has brought Th ' exacteft rules by which a play is wrought , The unity of action , place and time ; The scenes unbroken ; and a mingled ...
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... here prefent- ly and he'll tell us all . You must know , this is the new way of writing , and thefe hard things please forty times better than the old plain way . For , For , look you , Sir , the grand defign 14 THE REHEARSAL .
... here prefent- ly and he'll tell us all . You must know , this is the new way of writing , and thefe hard things please forty times better than the old plain way . For , For , look you , Sir , the grand defign 14 THE REHEARSAL .
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... thefe threatning ftorms , which , like impregnate clouds , hover o'er our heads , will , when they once are grafp'd but by the eye of reason , melt into fruitful fhowers of bleffings on the people . Bayes . Pray , mark that allegory ...
... thefe threatning ftorms , which , like impregnate clouds , hover o'er our heads , will , when they once are grafp'd but by the eye of reason , melt into fruitful fhowers of bleffings on the people . Bayes . Pray , mark that allegory ...
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Page xxix - Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking. Blest madman, who could every hour employ With something new to wish or to enjoy ! Railing and praising were his usual themes, And both, to show his judgment, in extremes : So over violent or over civil That every man with him was God or Devil.
Page xxxix - In the worst inn's worst room, with mat half-hung, The floors of plaster, and the walls of dung, On once a flock-bed, but repair'd with straw, With tape-tied curtains, never meant to draw, The George and Garter dangling from that bed Where tawdry yellow strove with dirty red, Great Villiers lies — alas!
Page 82 - I'll lead you thence to melancholy groves, And there repeat the scenes of our past loves : At night, I will within your curtains peep ; With empty arms embrace you while you sleep :. In gentle dreams I often will be by, And sweep along before your...
Page 13 - BAYES. Why, Sir, when I have any thing to invent, I never trouble my head about it, as other men do ; but presently turn over this Book, and there I have, at one view, all that...
Page 65 - I, he's a little envious ; but 'tis no great matter. Come. Ama. Pray let us two this fingle boon obtain, That you will here with poor us ftill remain.
Page 74 - And is that all your reason for it, Mr. Bayes? BAYES. No, Sir; I have a precedent for it too.
Page 22 - em all, in nature, to mend it. Besides, sir, I have printed above a hundred sheets of paper to insinuate the plot into the boxes ; * and, withal, have appointed two or three dozen of my friends to be ready in the pit, who, I'm sure, will clap, and so the rest, you know, must follow ; and then, pray, sir, what becomes of your suppose ? Ha, ha, ha!
Page 137 - I thank you, A little troubles me : the least touch for it, Had but my breeches got it, it had contented me.
Page 35 - I ever take physic, and let blood ; for, when you would have pure swiftness of thought, and fiery flights of fancy, you must have a care of the pensive part.
Page xxxix - With tape-ty'd curtains, never meant to draw, The George and Garter dangling from that bed Where tawdry yellow strove with dirty red, Great Villers lies — alas ! how chang'd from him...