 Macbeth," which, though I saw it lately, yet appears a most excellent play in all respects, but especially in divertisement, though it be a deep tragedy ; which is a strange perfection in a tragedy, it being most proper here, and suitable.  The Parlour Window: Or, Anecdotes - Side 163af Edward Mangin - 1841 - 179 siderFuld visning - Om denne bog
 | 1871 - 808 sider
...hand, he admired Hamlet exceedingly, when Betterton played the hero ; and Macbeth he considered "an excellent play in all respects, but especially in...a tragedy, it being most proper here and suitable ; " while that " most innocent play," The Tempest, although displaying no great wit, was yet " good... | |
 | Samuel Pepys - 1848 - 466 sider
...Gresham College. To the Duke's house, and saw " Macbeth," which, though I saw it lately, yet appears a most excellent play in all respects, but especially...tragedy, it being most proper here, and suitable. 8th. My uncle Thomas with me to receive his quarterage. He tells me his son Thomas is set up in Smithfield,... | |
 | 1889 - 670 sider
...saw it lately, yet appears a most excellent play in all respects, but especially ia divertieement, though it be a deep tragedy ; which is a strange perfection...a tragedy, it being most proper here and suitable. " October 16, 1667, he again saw this most excellent play, and was vexed to see Young (who ia but a... | |
 | 1889 - 562 sider
...saw it lately, yet appears a most excellent play in all respects, but especially in divertigement, though it be a deep tragedy ; which is a strange perfection in u tragedy, it being most proper here and suitable. " October 16, 1667, be again saw this molt excellent... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1853 - 580 sider
...thing." Vol. ii, p. 3. "To the Duke's house, and saw Macbeth, which, though I saw it lately, yet appears a most excellent play in all respects, but especially...tragedy, it being most proper here and suitable." t A new-minted word by the doctors, meaning over-grown or ovcruourished. Ibid. p. 254. 1668. 23rd.... | |
 | Samuel [collections] Pepys - 1854 - 500 sider
...which, though I saw it lately, yet appears a most excellent play in all respects, but especially iu divertisement, though it be a deep tragedy ; which...tragedy, it being most proper here, and suitable. 8th. My uncle Thomas with me to receive his quarterage. Ho tells me his son Thomas is set up in Smithfield,... | |
 | Samuel Pepys - 1855 - 510 sider
...saw it lately, yet appears a most excellent play in all respects, but especially in divcrtisement, though it be a deep tragedy ; which is a strange perfection...tragedy, it being most proper here, and suitable. 8th. My uncle Thomas with me to receive his quarterage. He tells me his son Thomas is set up in Smithfield,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1859 - 750 sider
...calls it only ' a pretty good play.' Afterwards it rose in his favour, and in 1667 he declares it to be 'a most excellent play in all respects, but especially...tragedy, it being most proper here, and suitable." It appears from a subsequent entry that the ' divertisement ' which he considered the especial excellence... | |
 | 1859 - 650 sider
...calls it a ' pretty good play.' Afterwards it rose in his favour, and in 1667 he declares it to be ' a most excellent play in all respects, but especially...tragedy, it being most proper here, and suitable.' It appears from a subsequent entry that the ' advertisement' which he considered the especial excellence... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1859 - 750 sider
...it only ' a pretty good play.' Afterwards it rose in his favour, and in 1667 he declares it to be ' a most excellent play in all respects, but especially...tragedy, it being most proper here, and suitable.' It appears from a subsequent entry that the ' divertisement' which he considered the especial excellence... | |
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