 | Edward Mangin - 1841 - 198 pages
...fire with the connivance, if not by order, of Charles himself. Pages 120, 121. " and saw 'Macbeth,'— a most excellent play in all respects, but especially...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... | |
 | Edward Mangin - 1841 - 194 pages
...with the connivance, if not by order, of Charles himself. Pages 120, 121. " and saw 'Macbeth,'—a most excellent play in all respects, but especially...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... | |
 | Edward Mangin - 1841 - 234 pages
...with the connivance, if not by order, of Charles himself. Pages 120, 121. " and saw 'Macbeth,'—a most excellent play in all respects, but especially...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
...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 pages
...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 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
...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 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,... | |
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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. 
