 | William Shakespeare - 1884 - 428 pages
...agth, 1662, and thus records the fact in his Diary : " 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." In 1692 the play was changed into an opera under the title of The Fairy Queen, and performed in London... | |
 | Samuel Pepys - 1884 - 380 pages
...along with us to a play this afternoon, and then 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. I saw, I confess, some good dancing and some handsome women, which was all my pleasure. Thence set... | |
 | Stafford Henry Northcote Earl of Iddesleigh - 1885 - 90 pages
...spark of fancy. Here is his estimate of the lightest, gayest, loveliest piece of fancy in the world. " To the King's Theatre, where we saw Midsummer Night's...insipid, ridiculous play that ever I saw in my life." We must not, however, confine our attention to works of humour and of fancy alone. They are, indeed,... | |
 | Francis Fisher Browne - 1885 - 362 pages
...go along with us to a play this afternoon; and then 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. I saw, I confess, some good dancing and some handsome women, which was all my pleasure." A little over... | |
 | Samuel Pepys - 1885 - 388 pages
...go along with us to a play this afternoon, and then 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. I saw, I confess, some good dancing and some handsome women, which was all my pleasure. Thence set... | |
 | Stafford Henry Northcote Earl of Iddesleigh - 1885 - 70 pages
...gayest, loveliest piece of fancy in the world. " To the King's Theatre, where we saw Midsummer Nights Dream, which I had never seen before, nor shall ever...insipid, ridiculous play that ever I saw in my life." We must not, however, confine our attention to works of humour and of fancy alone. They are, indeed,... | |
 | 1886 - 852 pages
...spark of fancy. Here is his estimate of the lightest, gayest, loveliest piece of fancy in the world. " To the King's Theatre, where we saw ' Midsummer Night's...again, for it is the most insipid, ridiculous play that I ever saw in my life." We must not, however, confine our attention to works of humor and of fancy... | |
 | 1886 - 438 pages
...study for two days together," and Samuel Pepy's estimate of Shakspeare's Midsummer Night's Dream as the " most insipid, ridiculous play that ever I saw in my life " — the writer gives excellent advice in the methods and manner of study, and condemns misdirected... | |
 | Stafford Henry Northcote Earl of Iddesleigh - 1887 - 494 pages
...spark of fancy. Here is his estimate of the highest, gayest, loveliest piece of fancy in the world : " To the King's Theatre, where we saw ' Midsummer Night's...insipid, ridiculous play that ever I saw in my life." We must not, however, confine our attention to works of humour or of fancy alone. They are, indeed,... | |
 | Henry Morley - 1887 - 388 pages
...Theatre, where, he says, "we saw pdishScri1- ' Midsummer Night's Dream,' which I had never s'hlkespeare. seen before, nor shall ever again, for it is the most...insipid, ridiculous play that ever I saw in my life." In 1676, in going to Deptford by water, he read " Othello, Moor of Venice," which, he continues, "lever... | |
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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. 
