 | Hippolyte Taine - 1871 - 554 pages
...modern style. Pepys, who went to see Midsummer Night's Dream, declared that he would never go there again ; ' for it is the most insipid, ridiculous play that ever I saw in my life.' l The comedy was transformed ; the fact was, that the public was transformed. What an audience was... | |
 | Hippolyte Adolphe Taine - 1871 - 556 pages
...modern style. Pepys, who went to see Midsummer NighCs Dream, declared that he would never go there again ; ' for it is the most insipid, ridiculous play that ever I saw in my life.' 1 The comedy was transformed ; the fact was, that the public was transformed. What an audience was... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1871 - 556 pages
...modern style. Pepys, who went to see Midsummer J\'iyh(s Dream, declared that he would never go there again ; ' for it is the most insipid, ridiculous play that ever I saw in my life.'1 The comedy was transformed; the fact was, that the public was transformed. \Vhnt an audience... | |
 | 1872 - 980 pages
...wnrst he had ever heard." "A Midsummer Nifrhl's Dreim" is also, in the opinion of 1'epvs aloresaid, " the most insipid, ridiculous play that ever I saw in my life." struggles of the two cliques — the Classical and the Romantic — who were, of course, present in... | |
 | 1873 - 740 pages
...worst that ever I heard, and the worst acted that ever I saw these people do." " September 29, 1662 — To the King's Theatre, where we saw ' Midsummer Night's...insipid, ridiculous play that ever I saw in my life." "January G, 1G62-3 — To the Duke's House, and there saw ' Twelfth Night ' acted well, though it be... | |
 | 1873 - 852 pages
...worst that ever I heard, and the worst acted that ever I saw these people do.' ' September 29, 1 662— To the King's Theatre, where we saw Midsummer Night's...insipid, ridiculous play that ever I saw in my life.' ' January 6, 1662-3 — To the Duke's House, and there saw Twelfth Night acted well, though it be but... | |
 | 1873 - 808 pages
...these people do.' ' September 29, 1 662— To the King's Theatre, where we saw Midsummer Night's Drcamf which I had never seen before, nor shall ever again,...insipid, ridiculous play that ever I saw in my life.' ' January 6, 1662-3 — To the Duke's House, and there saw Twelfth Night acted well,, though it be... | |
 | Hippolyte Adolphe Taine - 1873 - 470 pages
...modern style. Pepys, who went to see Midsummer Nights Dream, declared that he would never go there again ; " for it is the most insipid, ridiculous play that ever I saw in my life."1 Comedy was transformed ; the fact was, that the public was transformed. What an audience was... | |
 | Karl Elze - 1874 - 400 pages
...1662, made the following entry in his diary : ' To the King's Theatre, where we saw " Midsummer-Night's Dream," which I had never seen before, nor shall ever...again, for it is the most insipid ridiculous play, that I ever saw in my life.' (1874.) As might have been expected, our assigning the ' Midsummer-Night's... | |
 | Alfred Henry Paget - 1875 - 56 pages
...then presented. For one play his contempt was without measure. He writes for September 29th, 1662, " To the King's Theatre, where we saw ' Midsummer Night's...insipid, ridiculous play that ever I saw in my life." The number of theatres in London was far less at this time than formerly. It is not easy to give an... | |
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Dream, which I had never seen before, nor shall ever again, for it is the most insipid ridiculous play that ever I saw in my life. 
