 | Gerard Langbaine - 1691 - 626 Seiten
...be. j. (V) ijofttcnpt to Grenada, pag. 14^. ,(.V ind. Fag. 143. c many of them were made up of fbme ridiculous, incoherent Story, which in one Play, ' many times took up the bufinefs of an Age. 'I fuppofe (fays he) I need not name Pericles 'Prince of Tyre, nor the Hiflorical... | |
 | John Dryden, Edmond Malone - 1800 - 634 Seiten
...was then, if not in its infancy among us, at least not arrived to its vigour and maturity: witness the lameness of their plots; many of which, especially those which they writ first, 4 (for even that age refined itself in some measure,) were mado up of some ridiculous, incoherent story,... | |
 | John Dryden, Edmond Malone - 1800 - 591 Seiten
...was then, if not in its infancy among us, at least not arrived to its vigour and maturity r witness the lameness of their plots ; many of which, especially those which they writ first,4 (for even that age refined itself in some measure,) were made up of some ridiculous, incoherent... | |
 | John Dryden - 1800 - 624 Seiten
...was then, if not in its infancy among us, at least not arrived to its vigour and maturity : witness the lameness of their plots ; many of which, especially those which they writ first,4 (for even that age refined itself in some measure,) were made up of some ridiculous, incoherent... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1805 - 454 Seiten
...their plots; [the plots of Shakspeare and Fletcher;] many of which, especially those which they wrote first, (for even that age refined itself in some measure,)...the business of an age. I suppose I need not name, Ptricles, Prince of Tyre, [and here, by-the-by, Dryden expressly names Pi-rides as our author's production,]... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1806 - 370 Seiten
...their plots; [the plots of Shakspeare and Fletcher;] many of which, especially those which they wrote first, (for even that age refined itself in some measure...ridiculous incoherent story, which in one play many times tool* up the business of an age. I suppose I need iiot name Pericles, Prince of Tyre, [and here , -by-the-by... | |
 | American Philosophical Society - 1808 - 622 Seiten
...Prologue to The Conquest of Granada by the Spaniards, speaking of the early plays as notable for " some ridiculous incoherent story, which, in one play, many times took up the business of an age," supposes he " need not name Pericles, Prince of Tyre nor the historical plays of Shakespeare." In June,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1813 - 364 Seiten
...plots ; [the plots of Shakespeare and Fletcher ;] many of which, especially those which they wrote first, (for even that age refined itself in some measure,)...took up the business of an age. I suppose I need not nime, Pericles, Prince of Tyre, [and here, by-the-by Dryden expressly names Pericles as our author's... | |
 | Ben Jonson, William Gifford - 1816 - 482 Seiten
...one ere you despise the other. His plots are lame, and made up, many of them, of some ridiculous and incoherent story, which in one play many times took up the business of an age. Many of his plays, as the Winter's Tale, Love's Labour Lost, and Measure for Measure, are either grounded... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - 450 Seiten
...their plots; [the plots of Shakspeare and Fletcher;] many of which, especially those which they wrote first, (for even that age refined itself in some measure,)...one play many times took up the business of an age. 1 suppose I need not name, Pericles, Prince of Tyre, [and here, by-the-by, Dryden expressly names Pericles... | |
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Witness the lameness of their plots ; many of which, especially those which they writ first (for even that age refined itself in some measure), were made up of some ridiculous incoherent story, which in one play many times took up the business of an age. 
