 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.  Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature - Page 215edited by - 1871Full view - About this book
 | Edward Mangin - 1841 - 234 pages
...the connivance, if not by order, of Charles himself. Pages 120, 121. " and saw 'Macbeth,'—a most excellent play in all respects, but especially in...tragedy, it being most proper here, and suitable." From this it might almost be conjectured, that the witch-scenes in Macbeth were performed, as they... | |
 | 1871 - 808 pages
...the plays he saw. The most insipid, ridiculous play he ever saw in his life was A Midsummer Nighfs Dream ; he was pleased by no part of The Merry Wives...Shakespeare's plays witnessed by him were too often the adaptaSERIES.— VOL. XIV., No. 2. tions of Dryden and other marrers of the great dramatist's works.... | |
 | Samuel Pepys - 1848 - 466 pages
...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 in...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 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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 in...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 Taylor Coleridge - 1853 - 440 pages
...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 in...tragedy, it being most proper here and suitable." t A new-minted word by the doctors, meaning over-grown or overnourished. Ibid. p. 254. 1668. 23rd.... | |
 | Samuel [collections] Pepys - 1854 - 500 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...' 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 in...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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