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... be one of us or a Chian, maybe. It was pleasant enough to soak myself in comedy for a while, for right after the play, Charaxos found me and sugges... ...an appreciate it much more. I never miss a play if I can help it, whether comedy or tragedy, SAPPHO’S JOURNAL 57 though I prefer comedy. But ... ... times. Revealing human character through animal traits, he taught us the comedy of our faults and aspirations. Alcaeus has begun writing letters, t... ... only this endrenchment, intent on obliteration, transforming life into a comedy of errors. I VOICES FROM THE PAST 438 I was twenty-eight... ...s evolved, week by week, line by line, the crabbed scrawl, poem and song, comedy and tragedy; so the characters came into being: Agrippa, Iago, Ophe... ...velvet she suggested something of quality in the theatre. She has her own playhouse in New York City. Her talk was mostly about her acting days in L...

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...actress!” the young man exclaimed. “That’s the last thing I am. There’s no comedy in me!” She had never appeared to Wayworth so much his good genius. ... ...been capable, while he was away, of a good piece of work at that foggy old playhouse the “Legitimate;” the piece was a clumsy rechauffe, but she at le... ...ture. Her companions gave discernible signs of recognising the passages of comedy; yet Wayworth for- gave her even then for being inexpressive. She ev... ...a Vincent pointment, not bad enough to give him the consolation of the old playhouse adage that the worst dress-rehears- als make the best first night...

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...he bench in Westminster hall, have placed themselves on the benches at the playhouse, where they have exerted their judicial capacity, and have given ... ...e of the infernal regions hath long been ap propriated by the managers of playhouses, who seem lately to have laid them by as rubbish, capable only o... ...r age, taught poetry to tickle not the fancy, but the pride of the patron. Comedy from thee learns a grave and solemn air; while tragedy storms aloud,... ...the 575 The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling by Henry Fielding; Vol. II playhouse met with no better credit; and though she could not account for t... ...enting mistakes, is no very great re source to a writer whose province is comedy, or that kind of novels, which, like this I am writing, is of the co... ...her too warm. At least I would, if possible, think all owing to the odious playhouse, and to the impertinence of a fool, which detained me beyond my a... ...ed to remember, that when Sophia was thrown into that consternation at the playhouse, by the wit and humour of a set of young gentlemen who call thems...

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... And not only the poets, but the masters of these poets, the managers of playhouses, seem to be in this secret; for, besides the aforesaid kettle dr... .... This somewhat may be indeed resembled to the famous trunk maker in the playhouse; for, whenever the person who is possessed of it doth what is rig... ...han a single bad part on the stage. The passions, like the man agers of a playhouse, often force men upon parts without consulting their judgment, an... ... of Tom Jones, A Foundling by Henry Fielding 303 Our modern authors of comedy have fallen almost univer sally into the error here hinted at; thei...

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...don: and Mr. Henry Esmond remained in his sick- room, where he writ a fine comedy, that his mistress pro- nounced to be sublime, and that was acted no... ... be quiet, betook himself to literature for a relaxation, and composed his comedy, whereof the prompter’s copy lieth in my walnut escritoire, sealed u... ...eth in my walnut escritoire, sealed up and docketed, “The Faithful Fool, a Comedy, as it was performed by her Majesty’s Servants.” ’Twas a very sentim... ...e impression burned one day in a rage, by Jack Lockwood, his man. All this comedy was full of bitter satiric strokes against a certain young lady. The... ...was pleased to acknowledge him from the side-box. “During the whole of the comedy she racked her brains so to remember his name that she did not hear ... ... piece: and having the happiness to meet him once more in the lobby of the playhouse, she went up to him in a flutter, and bade him remember that she ... ...e) still staring at me. I fell in with her afterwards at Court, and at the playhouse; and here noth- ing would satisfy her but she must elbow through ...

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...s Mr. Steele, gentleman-usher to the Prince’s Highness. When does your new comedy appear, Mr. Steele?’ I hope thou wilt be out of prison for the first... ...mal no more. So when a party was made to dine at the “Rose,” and go to the playhouse afterward, Esmond was as pleased as another to take his share of ... ...if by an attraction irresistible: and that night the great Duke was at the playhouse after Ramillies, every soul turned and looked (she chanced to ent... ...d looked as no man else could say or look it. I have seen the women at the comedy at Bruxelles crowd round him in the lobby: and as he sat on the stag... ...road and take a turn on the Mall, or look in at the theatre and see Dick’s comedy. ’Tis not a masterpiece of wit; but Dick is a good fellow, though he...

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...rsts forth at length into “mystic unfathomable song; “ and this his Divine Comedy, the most remarkable of all modern Books, is the result. It must hav... ...offen- sive thing. I give Dante my highest praise when I say of his Divine Comedy that it is, in all senses, genuinely a Song. In the very sound of it... ...te discerned that she was made. What a paltry notion is that of his Divine Comedy ’s being a poor splenetic impotent terrestrial libel; putting those ... ...part, temporary, conventional. Alas, Shakspeare had to write for the Globe Playhouse: his great soul had to crush itself, as it could, into that and n... ... Well: this is our poor W arwickshire Peasant, who rose to be Manager of a Playhouse, so that he could live without beg- ging; whom the Earl of Southa...

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...which the moderns can place by that of Homer. Till I heard you, the Divine Comedy was to me a vast enigma to which none had found the clue—the comment... ... Pareto, of di Negro, and of Belgiojoso, who will represent in this “Human Comedy” the close and constant alliance between Italy and France, to which ... ...ed in much detail, after picking up some information in the of- fices. The comedy of modern sentiment might have the charm of novelty to the Baron; Va... ...the Crevel type; he is flattered by believing himself sole au- thor of the comedy, thinking it is performed for his benefit alone, and he laughs at th... ...ous and a coquette, she loves to have attentions paid her, and to have the comedy of love-making performed for her, as she says; but you are her only ... ...obey the injunctions of His Church?” “What is there in Paradise? Are there playhouses?” “Paradise!” said Adeline, “is every joy you can conceive of. I...

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.... Here, too, were “forms and pressures of the time,” Rough, bold, as Grecian comedy displayed When Art was young; dramas of living men, 290 And recent... ... scenes like these; Enjoyment haply handed down from times When at a country playhouse, some rude barn Tricked out for that proud use, if I perchance ...

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...ls you so much of this affair, I may as well tell you all. It is a sort of comedy, a painful comedy, of irrelevant affections.” The doctor was prepare... ...e, into a continuing music, of love. He thought of a world like some great playhouse in which play- ers and orchestra and audience all co-operate in a...

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...is chest. Nor was it unamusing here to view Those samples, as of the ancient comedy And Thespian times, dramas of living men 315 And recent things yet... ... like these— Pleasure that had been handed down from times When at a country playhouse, having caught In summer through the fractured wall a glimpse 4...

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...This Mr. Algernon—not Edward Blancove—was seen with Dahlia in a box at the Playhouse. He was there with Dahlia, yet I don’t think him the guilty man. ... ...cter, if it’s really to go on. I wonder whether you will ever perceive the comedy of, life. I doubt whether a man is happier when he does perceive it.... ... that they find scarce any terrors in the inevitable final stroke. No; the comedy is painfullest. You and I, Algy, old bach- elors, will earn the righ... ...uired a healing medicament; she put her lips to his fingers. Assuredly the comedy would not have ended there, but it was stopped by an intrusion of th... ...lloquy,—”an eternal broad grin is not, in the instance of a dualogue, good comedy.” “It may hide profound grief.” Edward made his eyes flash. “I find ...

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... was coming to, then it was high time the police stepped in and closed the playhouses. He was no prude and could laugh as well as any- one at the witt... ... her arm. “Come and sit by my side, dear child, and let us play the divine comedy of love.” “Fichez-moi la paix,” she said, and pushing him on one sid... ...he play . Philip was a very cultured young man, and he looked upon musical comedy with scorn. He thought the jokes vulgar and the melodies obvious; it... ... her mind; he recalled her vulgar little laugh at the jokes of the musical comedy; and he remembered the little finger carefully extended when she hel... ...ng that for?” “ Y ou don’t suppose I want to go and see a rot- ten musical comedy by myself, do you? I only took seats there for your sake.” “You can’... ...otorious comedians, had abandoned the hospital for the chorus of a musical comedy . Still another , and he interested Philip because his uncouth manne...

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...f imagination, to be logically and, as the artless craft of 9 Henry James comedy has it, “led up” to; the probable course to such a goal, the goal of... ... was the dreadful little old tradition, one of the platitudes of the human comedy, that people’s moral scheme does break down in Paris; that nothing i... ...might have been watching it all re- cede in a golden cloud of dust. If the playhouse wasn’t closed his seat had at least fallen to somebody else. He h... ...s ken, and the tacit repudiation of which had been thus the essence of her comedy. Strether saw how she had perceived in a flash that they couldn’t qu... ... Away from them, during his vigil, he had seemed to wince at the amount of comedy involved; whereas in his present posture he could only ask himself h... ...ould only ask himself how he should enjoy any attempt from her to take the comedy back. He shouldn’t enjoy it at all; but, once more and yet once more...

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...hings upon a fearful summons. At the pipe-shop in Great Russell-street, the Death’s-head pipes were like theatrical memento mori, admonishing beholder... ...the season of the year; whereon I per- ceived that I was in the presence of Mr. Barlow—corked! Another night—and this was in London—I attended the rep...

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...re drinking.’ [The original of this catch is to be found in Cowley’s witty comedy of The Guardian, the first edition. It does not exist in the second ... ...’ said Willie; ‘naething like the music ye hae in your ballhouses and your playhouses in Edinbro’; but it’s weel aneugh anes in a way at a dykeside. H...

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........................................................... 71 LETTER XIX.—ON COMEDY ....................................................................... ... it in the same manner as the trees of the Garden of Marli. LETTER XIX.—ON COMEDY I AM SURPRISED that the judicious and ingenious Mr. de Muralt, who ... ...e English and French nations, should have confined himself; in treating of comedy, merely to censure Shadwell the comic writer. This author was had in... ...lay. The English writer has corrected the only defect that is in Moliere’s comedy, the thinness of the plot, which also is so disposed that the charac... ...sed that the characters in it do not enough raise our concern. The English comedy affects us, and the contrivance of the plot is very ingenious, but a... ...London, to make yourself master of the English tongue, and to frequent the playhouse every night. I receive but little pleasure from the perusal of Ar...

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...e who know the literary world of London there was a sharp stroke of ironic comedy in the irresistible verdict in its favor. In critical literature the... ... the Dark Lady complication: he seems to have been born with it. If in The Comedy of Errors and A Midsummer Night’s Dream the persons of the drama are... ...g that marks the born dramatist more unmistakably than this dis- covery of comedy in his own misfortunes almost in propor- tion to the pathos with whi... ...rest, were you ordained. But the boon I crave is that you do endow a great playhouse, or, if I may make bold to coin a scholarly name for it, a Nation... ...t. I dare not offend my unruly Puri- tans by making so lewd a place as the playhouse a public charge; and there be a thousand things to be done in thi... ...en to barbarian Muscovy and the ham- lets of the boorish Germans, have its playhouse at the public charge, England will never adventure. And she will ...

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... our language. The EPIC, as well as the DRAMA, is divided into tragedy and comedy. HOMER, who was the father of this species of poetry, gave us a patt... ...kind is entirely lost; which Aristotle tells us, bore the same relation to comedy which his Iliad bears to tragedy. And perhaps, that we have no more ... ...ment. Now, a comic romance is a comic epic poem in prose; dif- fering from comedy, as the serious epic from tragedy: its ac- tion being more extended ... ...mities? What could exceed the absurdity of an author, who should write the comedy of Nero, with the merry incident of ripping up his mother’s belly? o... ...oper to de- fine the Ridiculous. Indeed, where he tells us it is proper to comedy, he hath remarked that villany is not its object: but he hath not, a... ...es have been agreed to be divided between them, namely, the church and the playhouse, where they segregate themselves from each other in a remarkable ... ...themselves at church over the heads of the people of no fashion, so in the playhouse they abase themselves in the same degree under their feet. This d... ... A groan. 6 to 8, coffee-house. 8 to 9, Drury-lane playhouse. 9 to 10, Lincoln’s Inn Fields. 10 to 12, Draw... ...rthest stretch of my ambition; where I shone forth in the balconies at the playhouses, visited whores, made love to orange-wenches, and damned plays. ...

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...sts for tournaments, the hippodrome or riding-court, the theatre or public playhouse, and natatory or place to swim in, with most admirable baths in t... ...t. Marcellus, a sheller of beans. Drusus, a taker of money at the doors of playhouses. Scipio Africanus, a crier of lee in a wooden slipper. Asdrubal,... ...ho in the view and sight of all Europe act this notable interlude or tragi-comedy, and not make some ef- fort towards the performance of this, nothing... ...cidents and contingencies. I remember also that Aristophanes, in a certain comedy of his, calleth the old folks Sibyls, (Greek). For as when, being up... ...John Perdrier, and Francis 432 Gargantua & Pantagruel Rabelais, the moral comedy of him who had espoused and married a dumb wife. I was there, quoth ... ...ften the most difficult to be made so in another; and Horace’s thoughts of comedy may be well applied to this: Creditur, ex medio quia res arcessit, ... ...th, even his very nails; as if he were to play the part of a lover in some comedy, or enter the lists to fight some enemy. And indeed the practice of ...

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... already famous achievements in sentimental drama that lighthearted art of comedy of which the greatest masters, like Moliere and Mozart, are so much ... ...g point of a great school of oratorio. Bayreuth WHEN THE BAYREUTH FESTIVAL PLAYHOUSE was at last com- pleted, and opened in 1876 with the first perfor... ... since then is that sub- scriptions are no longer needed; for the Festival Playhouse apparently pays its own way now, and is commercially on the same ... ...half Wagner turned out in 1849, are effectually excluded; and the Festival Playhouse must therefore be classed as infinitely less Wagnerian in its cha... ...usi- asm for Bayreuth that does not take the form of clamor for a Festival Playhouse in England may be set aside as mere pil- grimage mania. Those who...

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...when he caught the young scapegrace with a delightful 39 Thackeray wicked comedy of Mr. Shadwell’s or Mr. Wycherley’s under his pillow. These, when h... ...rooms picked it up from the ground and gave it me. Here it is in their d—d comedy jargon. ‘Divine Gloriana—Why look so coldly on your slave who adores... ...nd of Mrs. Bracegirdle, the actress who per- formed the girl’s part in the comedy. She was disguised as a page, and came and stood before the gentleme... ...s Mr. Steele, gentleman-usher to the Prince’s Highness. When does your new comedy appear, Mr. Steele?’ I hope thou wilt be out of prison for the first... ...mal no more. So when a party was made to dine at the “Rose,” and go to the playhouse afterward, Esmond was as pleased as another to take his share of ... ...if by an attraction irresistible: and that night the great Duke was at the playhouse after Ramillies, every soul turned and looked (she chanced to ent... ...d looked as no man else could say or look it. I have seen the women at the comedy at Bruxelles crowd round him in the lobby: and as he sat on the stag... ... piece: and having the happiness to meet him once more in the lobby of the playhouse, she went up to him in a flutter, and bade him remember that she ... ...e) still staring at me. I fell in with her afterwards at Court, and at the playhouse; and here noth- ing would satisfy her but she must elbow through ...

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...th more money. * These were the Misses Horneck, known otherwise as ‘Little Comedy’ and ‘The Jessamy Bride.’—ED. 140 Boswell’s Life of Johnson Mrs. Pi... ...ay be very well; but, for my part, I prefer the smell of a flambeau at the playhouse.’ We staid so long at Greenwich, that our sail up the river, in o... ...en to the publick this year, except the Prologue to his friend Goldsmith’s comedy of The Good-natured Man. The first lines of this Prologue are strong... ...nsfers to others its own feelings. Who could suppose it was to introduce a comedy, when Mr. Bensley solemnly began, ‘Press’d with the load of life, ... ... character. He praised Goldsmith’s Good-natured Man; said, it was the best comedy that had appeared since The Provoked Husband, and that there had not... ...is not a talent; it is a vice; it is what others ab- stain from. It is not comedy, which exhibits the character of a species, as that of a miser gath-... ...oth him and 283 Boswell’s Life of Johnson them to the round-house. In the playhouse at Lichfield, as Mr. Garrick informed me, Johnson having for a mo...

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...hing: men needed amusement, and loved to amuse themselves with Poetry: the playhouse was a pretty lounge of an evening; then there were so many pre- c... ...tertainment from the ac- tion and the tone of voice. I understood least of comedy; because it was spoken rapidly, and related to the affairs of common... ...eciting them in the tone of the Protestant preachers. The versified French comedy was then much in vogue: the pieces of Destouches, Marivaux, and La C... ... box on the ear with his right paw, that the latter, as often happens in a comedy, went spinning out at the door; whereupon the respectable old grandf...

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... all the men and women merely players.” The world is a strange place for a playhouse to stand within it. Old Drayton thought that a man that lived her... ...y unities which we mortals prize. Whether it might have proved tragedy, or comedy, or tragi comedy, or pastoral, we cannot tell. This Sunday ended by...

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...hy attitude of human nature. A boy is in the parlor what the pit is in the playhouse; independent, irresponsible, looking out from his corner on such ... ...he senses final, is the god of sots and cowards, and is the subject of all comedy. It is nature’s joke, and therefore literature’s. The true prudence ...