I have survived all true national taste, and lived to see buffoonery, spectacle, and puerility so effectually triumph, that now to be repulsed from the stage is to be recommended to the closet, and to be applauded by the theatre is little else than a... Little Memoirs of the Eighteenth Century - Сторінка 72автори: George Paston - 1901 - 389 стор.Повний перегляд - Докладніше про цю книгу
| John Genest - 1832 - 716 стор.
...legitimate Comedy, to whose service " I am sworn, and in whose defence I have kept the " field for nearly half a century— till at last I have " survived...stage is " to be recommended to the closet, and to be ap" plauded by the theatre is little else than a passport " to the puppet-show — I only say what... | |
| 1863 - 518 стор.
...indecency, novelty, and Buffoonery were substituted for wit, sentiment, " and sense. Cumberland writes : " I have survived all true national taste, and lived...recommended to the closet, and to be applauded by the theater is little else than a passport to the puppets' show." Sheridan himself declared before a Commons... | |
| Richard Cumberland - 1856 - 424 стор.
...the legitimate comedy, to whose service I am sworn, aad in whose defence I have kept the field for nearly half a century, till at last I have survived...buffoonery, spectacle, and puerility so effectually triumphant, that now to be repulsed from the stage is to be recommended to the closet, and to be applauded... | |
| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1863 - 552 стор.
...indecency, novelty, and buffoonery were substituted for wit, sentiment, and sense. Cumberland writes : " I have survived all true national taste, and lived...recommended to the closet, and to be applauded by the theater is little else than a passport to the puppets' show." Sheridan himself declared before a Commons... | |
| Dr. Doran (John) - 1865 - 442 стор.
...abandoning legitimate comedy, to whose service I am sworn, and in whose defence I have kept the field for nearly half a century — till at last I have survived...closet ; and to be applauded by the theatre is little less than a passport to the puppetshow." This spirit of self-satisfaction, and depreciation of the... | |
| Dr. Doran (John) - 1865 - 446 стор.
...sworn, and in whose defence I have kept the field for nearly half a century — till at last I havo survived all true national taste, and lived to see...closet; and to be applauded by the theatre is little less than a passport to the puppetshow." This spirit of self-satisfaction, and depreciation of the... | |
| John Doran - 1865 - 486 стор.
...not his, but additions made by Cumberland. Sir Fretful found consolation. "I have survived," he says, '-all true national taste, and lived to see buffoonery,...closet ; and to be applauded by the theatre is little less than a passport to the puppet-show." He was not altogether wrong. In 1784, Costello's dogs brought... | |
| Dr. Doran (John) - 1880 - 440 стор.
...whose service I am sworn, and in whose defence I have kept the field for nearly half a century—till at last I have survived all true national taste, and...closet; and to be applauded by the theatre is little less than a passport to the puppetshow." This spirit of self-satisfaction, and depreciation of the... | |
| Dr. Doran (John) - 1890 - 444 стор.
...abandoning legitimate comedy, to whose service I am sworn, and in whose defence I have kept the field for nearly half a century — till at last I have survived all true national taste, and lived to sec buffoonery, spectacle, and puerility so effectually triumph, that now to be repulsed from the stage... | |
| Dr. Doran (John) - 1890 - 440 стор.
...for nearly half a century — till at last I have survived all true national taste, and lived to sec buffoonery, spectacle, and puerility so effectually triumph, that now to be repulsed from the stage js to be recommended to the closet ; and to be applauded by the theatre is little less than a passport... | |
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