 | William Shakespeare - 1887 - 532 pages
...admiration, as is evident from the following account he gives of it (under date 29th September, 1662): " To the King's Theatre, where we saw ' Midsummer Night's...Dream,' which I had never seen before, nor shall ever see again, fur it is the most insipid ridiculous play tliat ever I saw in my life" (vol. ii. p. 51).... | |
 | Appleton Morgan - 1887 - 380 pages
...were caviare to the general, and out of taste in the period of which he wrote. "Sept. 29th, 1662—To the King's Theatre, where we saw Mid-summer Night's Dream, which I had never seen before, nor ever shall again; for it is the most insipid, ridiculous play that I ever saw in my life. "Jan. 1,1663-4—Saw... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1888 - 208 pages
...29th, 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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1888 - 552 pages
...Theatre, where we saw ' Midsummer Night's Dream,' which I had never seen before, nor shall ever see again, for it is the most insipid ridiculous play that ever I saw in my life" (vol. ii. p. 51). The next mention of the piece we tind is in Downes' Roscius Anglicamis, as: "The... | |
 | 1888 - 678 pages
...he goes to see for the first time and is so dissatisfied with that he declares he will never see it again, ' for it is the most insipid, ridiculous play that ever I saw in my life.' But Pepys only reflected the taste, or want of taste, of liis time. His brother diarist, Evelyn, remarks... | |
 | Charlotte Endymion Porter - 1888
...he goes to see for the first time and is so dissatisfied with that he declares he will never see it again, ' for it is the most insipid, ridiculous play that ever I saw in my life.' But Pepys only reflected the taste, or want of taste, of his time. His brother diarist, Evelyn, remarks... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1890 - 622 pages
...Eomeo and Juliet, "a play of itself the worst that ever I heard in my life;" A Midsummer Night's Dream, "the most insipid ridiculous play that ever I saw in my life;" Twelfth Night, "a silly play;" Macbeth, "a most excellent play for variety;" and to this last he returned... | |
 | 1889 - 324 pages
...tells us, that on September 29, 1662, "he went to the King's Theatre, where we saw Midsummer Ni^hfs 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." In no part of his Diary is there any mention of Milton or his poems. Mortals... | |
 | 1889 - 298 pages
...September 29, 1662, "he went to the King's Theatre, where we saw Midsummer Night's {¡ream, which 1 hail never seen before, nor shall ever again, for it is the most insipid, ridiculous play that I ever saw in my life." In no part of his Diary is there any mention of Milton or his poems. Mortals... | |
 | Andrew Lang, Edwin Austin Abbey - 1889 - 234 pages
...T1TAN1A. 338 HARPER'S NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE. Mr. Pepys, as we know, thought the Midsummer -Night's Dream "the most insipid ridiculous play that ever I saw in my life." Indeed, Mr. Pepys lived in another world than Shakespeare's, and perhaps the piece is too ethereal... | |
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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. 
