 | John Genest - Theater - 1832 - 720 pages
...sworn, and in whose defence I have kept the " field for nearly half a century— till at last I have " survived all true national taste, and lived to see...stage is " to be recommended to the closet, and to be ap" plauded by the theatre is little else than a passport " to the puppet-show — I only say what... | |
 | 1863 - 518 pages
...novelty, and Buffoonery were substituted for wit, sentiment, " and sense. Cumberland writes : " I have survived all true national taste, and lived to see...recommended to the closet, and to be applauded by the theater is little else than a passport to the puppets' show." Sheridan himself declared before a Commons... | |
 | Richard Cumberland - Dramatists, English - 1856 - 424 pages
...am sworn, aad in whose defence I have kept the field for nearly half a century, till at last I have survived all true national taste, and lived to see...buffoonery, spectacle, and puerility so effectually triumphant, that now to be repulsed from the stage is to be recommended to the closet, and to be applauded... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - American periodicals - 1863 - 552 pages
...novelty, and buffoonery were substituted for wit, sentiment, and sense. Cumberland writes : " I have survived all true national taste, and lived to see...recommended to the closet, and to be applauded by the theater is little else than a passport to the puppets' show." Sheridan himself declared before a Commons... | |
 | Dr. Doran (John) - Actors - 1865 - 438 pages
...sworn, and in whose defence I have kept the field for nearly half a century — till at last I have survived all true national taste, and lived to see...nothing new. The author or adapter of " Richard II." (Nahum Tato), finding his piece prohibited by authority, published it with a self-congratulatory preface... | |
 | Dr. Doran (John) - Actors - 1865 - 448 pages
...sworn, and in whose defence I have kept the field for nearly half a century — till at last I have survived all true national taste, and lived to see...was nothing new. The author or adapter of " Richard H." (Nahum Tate), finding his piece prohibited by authority, published it with a self-congratulatory... | |
 | Dr. Doran (John) - Actors - 1865 - 442 pages
...sworn, and in whose defence I have kept the field for nearly half a century — till at last I have survived all true national taste, and lived to see...public taste, was nothing new. The author or adapter of " Eichard II." (Nahum Tate), finding his piece prohibited by authority, published it with a self-congratulatory... | |
 | John Doran - 1865 - 486 pages
...not his, but additions made by Cumberland. Sir Fretful found consolation. "I have survived," he says, '-all true national taste, and lived to see buffoonery,...is little less than a passport to the puppet-show." He was not altogether wrong. In 1784, Costello's dogs brought £7,000 profit to Wroughton, at Sadlers'... | |
 | Dr. Doran (John) - Actors - 1888 - 540 pages
...sworn, and in whose defence I have kept the field for nearly half a century — till at last I have survived all true national taste, and lived to see...nothing new. The author or adapter of " Richard II." (Nahum Tate), finding his piece prohibited by authority, published it with a self-congratulatory preface... | |
 | Dr. Doran (John) - Actors - 1890 - 444 pages
...for nearly half a century — till at last I have survived all true national taste, and lived to sec buffoonery, spectacle, and puerility so effectually...nothing new. The author or adapter of " Richard II." (Nahurn Tate), finding his piece prohibited by authority, published it with a self-congratulatory preface... | |
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I never disgraced my colours by abandoning legitimate comedy, to whose service I am sworn, and in whose defence I have kept the field for nearly half a century — till at last I have survived all true national taste, and lived to see buffoonery, spectacle,... 
