 | Charles Dickens - 1876 - 636 sayfa
...perhaps, the audience paid little heed, although the incomparable Betterton appeared in the tragedy — " but now the old plays begin to disgust this refined age, since his Majesty's being so long abroad." Shakespeare and his brotherbards were out of fashion. There was a demand for tragedies... | |
 | Dutton Cook - 1876 - 348 sayfa
...perhaps, the audience paid little heed, although the incomparable Betterton appeared in the tragedy— " but now the old plays begin to disgust this refined age, since his Majesty's being so long abroad." Shakespeare and his brother bards were out of fashion. There was a demand for tragedies... | |
 | John Evelyn - 1878 - 540 sayfa
...amusing character of him is to be found in the text. He died December 16th, 1687. 26 1 h November. I saw Hamlet Prince of Denmark played ; but now the old plays began to disgust this refined age, since his Majesty's being so long abroad. 28M. I dined at Cbiffinch's... | |
 | John Evelyn - 1879 - 652 sayfa
...ships with thin lead. 24. This night his Majesty fell into discourse with me concerning bees, &c. 26. I saw Hamlet Prince of Denmark played, but now the old plays began to disgust this refined age, since his Majesties being so long abroad. 28. I din'd at Chiffinch's... | |
 | Alfred Stern - 1879 - 548 sayfa
...subjects and of sovereigns are things distinct in nature; theirs is to enjoy propriety not empire". 35 ') „I saw Hamlet prince of Denmark played , but now the old plays began to disgust this refined age, since bis Majesty's being so long abroad". Evelyn' s Diary 1661... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1880 - 888 sayfa
...whose judgment has its value ; and assuredly he records the taste of the court-circle. In 16G1, he saw '" Hamlet, Prince of Denmark," played; but now...plays begin to disgust this refined age, since his majesty has been so long abroad." Pepys, his contemporary, was a • I derive my knowledge from the... | |
 | Francis Fisher Browne - 1889 - 374 sayfa
...testimony (1662), after witnessing a performance of Hamlet supported by the great Mr. Betterton, that " now the old plays begin to disgust this refined age, since His Majesty's being so long abroad "; and Pepys' general depreciation of Shakepeare's plays by comparison with the modern... | |
 | 1880 - 784 sayfa
...see how the stage was degenerated and polluted by the licentious time;" and he further remarked that "now the old plays begin to disgust this refined age, since his Majesty's being so long abroad." This was in 1662 ; he had been witnessing a performance of " Hamlet," supported by the... | |
 | Henry Benjamin Wheatley - 1880 - 342 sayfa
...Shakespeare which the author v mentions as having seen acted, and his observation upon this is that" now the old plays begin to disgust this refined age, since his Majesty's been so long abroad."* Yet, in the one month of December, 1660, Pepys had seen two distinct plays of... | |
 | 1881 - 692 sayfa
...John Evelyn remarked in 1662, after he had been to see the renowned Mr. Betterton as Hamlet, that " now the old plays begin to disgust this refined age, since his Majesty's being so long abroad." John Dryden, in his " Defence of the Epilogue," a postscript to his tragedies of the... | |
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I saw Hamlet Prince of Denmark played, but now the old plays began to disgust this refined age, since his Majesties being so long abroad. 
