 | William Shakespeare - 1886 - 96 strani
...but been Thought worthy of applause. Dryden, in 1672, 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 Shtkespear? The play... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1886 - 96 strani
...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 Sbtkespear? The play seems to have been popular. Robert Tailor, in The Hogge hath lost his Pearl, 1614,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1886 - 96 strani
...Dryden, in 1672, speaking of the early plays as notable for ' some ridieulous, ineoherent story, whieh in one play many times took up the business of an age,' supposes he ' need not name Pericles, Prince of Tyre, nor the Historieal Plays of Shukespear.' The... | |
 | James Mercer Garnett - 1890 - 730 strani
...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...Pericles, Prince of Tyre," nor the historical plays of Shakespeare ; besides many of the rest, as the " Winter's Tale," " Love's Labour Lost," " Measure for... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1883 - 494 strani
...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..."Pericles, Prince of Tyre," nor the historical plays of Shakespeare : besides many of the rest, as the " Winter's Tale," " Love's Labour Lost," " Measure for... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1898 - 456 strani
...especially those which they wrote first, (for even that age refined itself in some measure,) were made up of some ridiculous incoherent story, which in one...Pericles, Prince of Tyre, nor the historical plays of Shakespeare ; besides many of the rest, as The Winter's Tale, Love's Labour's Lost, Measure for Measure,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1898 - 460 strani
...especially those which they wrote first, (for even that age refined itself in some measure,) were made up of some ridiculous incoherent story, which in one...Pericles, Prince of Tyre, nor the historical plays of Shakespeare ; besides many of the rest, as The Winter's Tale, Love's Labour's Lost, Measure for Measure,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1898 - 456 strani
...especially those which they wrote first, (for even that age refined itself in some measure,) were made up of some ridiculous incoherent story, which in one...Pericles, Prince of Tyre, nor the historical plays of Shakespeare ; besides many of the rest, as The Winter's Tale, Love's Labour's Lost, Measure for Measure,... | |
 | Albert H. Smyth - 1898 - 126 strani
...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 - 1899 - 514 strani
...contemporaries of Etherege. Dryden singles it out, with the English histories collectively, as a type of the 'ridiculous incoherent story which in one play many times took up the business of an age ' ; and in an unfortunate, but often-quoted, line used it to illustrate the contention that no first... | |
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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.... 
