Witness the lameness of their plots ; many of which, especially those which they writ first (for even that age refined itself in some measure), were made up of some ridiculous incoherent story, which in one play many times took up the business of an age. The Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected ... - Page 209by John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808Full view - About this book
| Gerard Langbaine - Digital images - 1691 - 626 pages
...be. j. (V) ijofttcnpt to Grenada, pag. 14^. ,(.V ind. Fag. 143. c many of them were made up of fbme ridiculous, incoherent Story, which in one Play, ' many times took up the bufinefs of an Age. 'I fuppofe (fays he) I need not name Pericles 'Prince of Tyre, nor the Hiflorical... | |
| John Dryden, Edmond Malone - 1800 - 634 pages
...was then, if not in its infancy among us, at least not arrived to its vigour and maturity: witness the lameness of their plots; many of which, especially those which they writ first, 4 (for even that age refined itself in some measure,) were mado up of some ridiculous, incoherent story,... | |
| John Dryden, Edmond Malone - English prose literature - 1800 - 591 pages
...was then, if not in its infancy among us, at least not arrived to its vigour and maturity r witness the lameness of their plots ; many of which, especially those which they writ first,4 (for even that age refined itself in some measure,) were made up of some ridiculous, incoherent... | |
| John Dryden - 1800 - 624 pages
...was then, if not in its infancy among us, at least not arrived to its vigour and maturity : witness the lameness of their plots ; many of which, especially those which they writ first,4 (for even that age refined itself in some measure,) were made up of some ridiculous, incoherent... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1805 - 454 pages
...their plots; [the plots of Shakspeare and Fletcher;] many of which, especially those which they wrote first, (for even that age refined itself in some measure,)...the business of an age. I suppose I need not name, Ptricles, Prince of Tyre, [and here, by-the-by, Dryden expressly names Pi-rides as our author's production,]... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1806 - 370 pages
...their plots; [the plots of Shakspeare and Fletcher;] many of which, especially those which they wrote first, (for even that age refined itself in some measure...ridiculous incoherent story, which in one play many times tool* up the business of an age. I suppose I need iiot name Pericles, Prince of Tyre, [and here , -by-the-by... | |
| American Philosophical Society - Electronic journals - 1808 - 622 pages
...Prologue to The Conquest of Granada by the Spaniards, speaking of the early plays as notable for " some ridiculous incoherent story, which, in one play, many times took up the business of an age," supposes he " need not name Pericles, Prince of Tyre nor the historical plays of Shakespeare." In June,... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1813 - 364 pages
...plots ; [the plots of Shakespeare and Fletcher ;] many of which, especially those which they wrote first, (for even that age refined itself in some measure,)...took up the business of an age. I suppose I need not nime, Pericles, Prince of Tyre, [and here, by-the-by Dryden expressly names Pericles as our author's... | |
| Ben Jonson, William Gifford - Dramatists, English - 1816 - 482 pages
...one ere you despise the other. His plots are lame, and made up, many of them, of some ridiculous and incoherent story, which in one play many times took up the business of an age. Many of his plays, as the Winter's Tale, Love's Labour Lost, and Measure for Measure, are either grounded... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1821 - 450 pages
...their plots; [the plots of Shakspeare and Fletcher;] many of which, especially those which they wrote first, (for even that age refined itself in some measure,)...one play many times took up the business of an age. 1 suppose I need not name, Pericles, Prince of Tyre, [and here, by-the-by, Dryden expressly names Pericles... | |
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