 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1781 - 484 pages
...Pe?iitent, his next production (1703), is one of the moft pleafing tragedies on the ftage, where it 'ftill keeps its turns of appearing, and probably will long keep them, for there is fcarcely any work of any poet at once fo interefting by the fable, and fo delightful by the language.... | |
 | samuel johnson - 1781 - 276 pages
...his next production (1703), is one of the moft pleafing tragedies on the ftage, where is A 3 ftill keeps its turns of appearing, and probably will long keep them, for there is fcarcely any work ©f any poet at once fo interefting by the fable, and fo delightful by the language.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1781 - 476 pages
...Penitent, his next production (1703), is one of the moft pleafing tragedies on the ftage, where it ftill keeps its turns of appearing, and probably will long keep them, for thefe is fcarcely any work of any poet at once fo interefting by the fable, and fo delightful by the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1781 - 278 pages
...Penitent, his next production (1703), is one of the moft plcafmg tragedies on the ftage, where it A 3 iiiil keeps its turns of appearing, and probably will long keep them, for thereis fcarcely any work of any poet at once ib interefting by the fable, and fo delightful by the... | |
 | Richard Cumberland - Conduct of life - 1786 - 380 pages
...pronounces of The Fair Penitent, that it is one of the moft plea/ing tragedies on the jiage, where it jiill keeps its turns of appearing, and probably will long keep them, for that there is fcarcely any work of any poet at once fo inter ejling by the fable, andfo delightful... | |
 | 1795 - 846 pages
...Maffingcr. |t is, as Dr. Johnfon obfcrvcs, one of the moil pleaüng tragédica on the ftage, where it ftill keeps its turns of appearing, and probably will long keep them ; for there is fcarcely any work of any poet at once fo interefling by the fable, and fo delightful by the language.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 444 pages
...Penitent, his next production (1703), is one of the moft pleafing tragedies on the tiage, where it ftill keeps its turns of appearing, and probably will long keep them, for there is fcarcely any work of any poet at once fo interefting by the fable, and fo delightful by the language.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1800 - 714 pages
...appearing, aCnd probably eep them, for there is scarcely *ny work pf any poet at-once so infraiing by the fable, and so delightful by the language. The story is domes$, Jnd therefore easily received by the imagination, and, assimilated to com|» lifej the diction... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Biography - 1801 - 424 pages
...Penitent, his next production (1703), isone of the moft pleafing tragedies on the ftage, where it ftill keeps its turns of appearing, and probably will long keep them^ for there is fcarcely any work of any poet at once fo interefting by the fable, and fo delightful by the language.... | |
 | British essayists - 1803 - 300 pages
...his life of Rowe, pronounces of' The Fair Penitent, that it is one of the most pleasing tragedies on the stage, where it still keeps its turns of appearing, and probably will long keep them, for that there is scarcely any work of any poet at once so interesting by the fable, and so delightful... | |
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The Fair Penitent, his next production (1703), is one of the most pleasing tragedies on the stage, where . it still keeps its turns of appearing, and probably will long keep them, for there is scarcely any work of any poet at once so interesting by the... 
