 | J. S. Forsyth - 1825 - 422 pages
...Extracts relative to the Drama and the Stage, 8fc. " To the King's Theatre, where we saw ' Midsummer Night's Dream,' which I had never seen before, nor...insipid ridiculous play that ever I saw in my life. " Oct. 30th. I would not forget two passages of Sir J. Minnes's at yesterday's dinner. The one, that... | |
 | James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps - 1841 - 138 pages
...of the time. Here is his extraordinary opinion :f—" To the King's Theatre, where we saw Midsummer Night's Dream, which I had never seen before, nor...insipid ridiculous play that ever I saw in my life." It was, perhaps, " too etherially poetic" for the gross mind of the eccentric secretary. In the year... | |
 | James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps - 1841 - 72 pages
...Restoration, it was revived. ' September 29, 1662. To the King's Theatre, where we saw Midsummer NigJifs Dream, which I had never seen before, nor shall ever...insipid, ridiculous play that ever I saw in my life.' This is from ' Pepys's Diary.' We do not wonder that it was not to Pepys's taste, for he was a coarse... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1841 - 478 pages
...the puppetshow ; but that is no great matter from the man who calls ' A Midsummer Night's Dream ' " the most insipid, ridiculous play that ever I saw in my life." Wo believe that they were very good puppets; and the classical story very much improved by being made... | |
 | William Shakespeare, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps - 1842 - 564 pages
...the time. Here is his extraordinary opinion :f — " To the King's Theatre, where we saw Midsummer Night's Dream, which I had never seen before, nor...insipid ridiculous play that ever I saw in my life." It was, perhaps, " too etherially poetic" for the gross mind of the eccentric secretary. In the year... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1843 - 566 pages
...Tale might be regarded by the Earl of Stirling as Pcpys regarded the Midsummer Night's Dream — " It is the most insipid, ridiculous play that ever I saw in my life." The refinements of the Court extended to the people. The Bear-Garden was adapted to theatrical performances;... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1844 - 246 pages
...like the puppet-show ; but that is no great matter for the man who calls ' A Midsummer Night's Dream* "the most insipid, ridiculous play that ever I saw in my life." We believe that they were very good puppets ; and the classical story very much improved by being made... | |
 | Elizabeth Stone - 1845 - 484 pages
...King's Theatre, where we saw 'Midsummer Night's Dream,1 which I had never seen before, nor ever shall again, for it is the most insipid, ridiculous play, that ever I saw in my life." "And 1667: Nov. 7. 'The Tempest acted,'— 'the most innocent play that ever I saw f — 'the play... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1849 - 582 pages
...by ' Romeo and Juliet;' and, in 1662, we have an entry in his diary, with his famous criticism : " To the King's Theatre, where we saw ' Midsummer's...insipid ridiculous play that ever I saw in my life." Here, upon unquestionable authority, we have a fifteenth play added to the fourteen previously cited.... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1849 - 574 pages
...by ' Romeo and Juliet;' and, in 1662, we have an entry in his diary, with his famous eriticism : " To the King's Theatre, where we saw ' Midsummer's...the most insipid ridiculous play that ever I saw in mj life." Here, upon unquestionable authority, we have a fifteenth play added to the fourteen previously... | |
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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. 
