 | Graeme Mercer Adam, George Stewart - 1878 - 700 pages
...in the pages of a diary. There, a Pepys can extinguish a Shakspere ; as thus : ' September 29, 1662. To the King's Theatre, where we saw Midsummer Night's...insipid, ridiculous play that ever I saw in my life.' Heaven preserve me from the tender mercies of a diarist in search of scalps to hang at his girdle!... | |
 | James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps - 1879 - 56 pages
...Restoration. Pepys, who saw it acted in September, 1662, does not scruple to condemn its insipidity,—" To the King's Theatre, where we saw Midsummer Night's...insipid ridiculous play that ever I saw in my life." Yet this condemnatory criticism was equalled, if not excelled, by Lord Orford in the following century,... | |
 | James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps - 1879 - 368 pages
...Restoration. Pepys, who saw it acted in September, 1662, does not scruple to condemn its insipidity, — "To the King's Theatre, where we saw Midsummer Night's...is the most insipid ridiculous play that ever I saw 38 in my life." Yet this condemnatory criticism was equalled, if not excelled, by Lord Orford in the... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1879 - 190 pages
...day, rewarded his constancy by going to the King's Theatre, where, he says, ' we saw " Midsummer's Night's Dream," which I had never seen before, nor...insipid ridiculous play that ever I saw in my life.' Mr. Pepys was perhaps a little difficult to please, and his critical judgement was not final. The Tempest... | |
 | David Masson - 1880 - 880 pages
...in Vere Street. " Which I had never seen before, nor shall ever again," says the irreverent Pepys, " for it is the most insipid ridiculous play that " ever I saw in, my life." Feb. 1662-3 : First performance of Tfie Wild Gallant, a comedy, Dryden's first play : KT in Vere Street.... | |
 | 1881 - 692 pages
...Adventures of Five Hours," " Othello " was a mean thing ; and "A Midsummer-Night's Dream" he deemed " the most insipid, ridiculous play that ever I saw in my life," etc. When recording his first purchase of a Shakespeare, he shows a strange preference for other authors.... | |
 | Edward Dowden - 1882 - 198 pages
...spirit of superiority: "September 29, 1662. To the King's Theatre, where we saw Midsummer Nt.ght's Dream, which I had never seen before, nor shall ever...insipid, ridiculous play that ever I saw in my life." 3. Shakspere Scholarship, 1700-1750. — In 1709 appeared the first critical edition of Shakspere's... | |
 | William Shakespeare, William Michael Rossetti - 1882 - 1168 pages
...spirit of superiority : " September 29, 1662. To the King's Theatre, where we saw Midsummer Nighfs self? .! .;. .••••. He cannot come, my lord...'Znunds 1 how has be the leisure to be sick [n such a In 1709 appeared the first critical edition of Shakespeare's plays, that by Nicholas Rowe ; he did... | |
 | Theodore Parker - 1865 - 324 pages
...play, but having so lately read the Adventures of Five Hours, it seems a mean thing. Sept. 29th, 1662. To the King's Theatre, where we saw Midsummer Night's...before, nor shall ever again, for it is the most insipid and ridiculous play that ever I saw in my life." Emerson is certainly one " Quern tu, Melpomene, semel... | |
 | Sidney Lanier - 1883 - 312 pages
...Ghost." And the other is, under Sept. 29th, 1662, " To the King's Theatre, where we saw ' Midsummer's Night's Dream/ which I had never seen before, nor...insipid, ridiculous play that ever I saw in my life." Indeed, if you should wish to see how recently we are out of the range of Aristotle, you have only... | |
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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. 
