 | Charles William Eliot - 1910 - 450 pages
...or the eye to do with such things? But the play is beyond all art, as the tamperings with it show: it is too hard and stony; it must have love-scenes,...Leviathan, for Garrick and his followers, the showmen of scene, to draw the mighty beast about more easily. A happy ending! — as if the living martyrdom that... | |
 | Charles W - 1910 - 466 pages
...or .the- eye to do with such things? But the play is beyond all art, as the tamperings with it show: it is too hard and stony; it must have love-scenes, and a happy ending. It 1s not enough that Cordelia is a daughter, she must shine as a lover too. Tate has put his hook in... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1917 - 376 pages
...or the eye to do with such things? But the play is beyond all art, as the tamperings with it show; it is too hard and stony; it must have love-scenes,...has put his hook in the nostrils of this leviathan, 1 for Garrick and his followers, the show-men of the scene, to draw the mighty beast about more easily.... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1917 - 716 pages
...or the eye to do with such things? But the play is beyond all art, as the tamperings with it show; it is too hard and stony ; it must have love-scenes,...too. Tate has put his hook in the nostrils of this leviathan,1 for Garrickand his followers, the show-men of the scene, to draw the mighty beast about... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1919 - 346 pages
...beyond all art, as the tamperings with it show: it is too hard and stony; it must have love scenes, and a happy ending. It is not enough that Cordelia...Leviathan, for Garrick and his followers, the showmen of scene, to draw the mighty beast about more easily. A happy ending ! • — as if the living martyrdom... | |
 | Edmund David Jones - 1924 - 636 pages
...or the eye to do with such things ? But the play is beyond all art, as the tamperinga with it show : it is too hard and stony ; it must have love-scenes,...daughter, she must shine as a lover too. Tate has put his Itook in the nostrils of this Leviathan, for Garrick and his followers, the showmen of the scene, to... | |
 | James Agate - 1925 - 324 pages
...to Macready in 1838, used Nahum Tate's version, are dark in the mists of time. " Tate," says Lamb, " has put his hook in the nostrils of this Leviathan, for Garrick and his followers to draw it about more easily." Of Garrick's Lear we know that it shook Dr. Johnson out of his wits,... | |
 | Barbara A. Murray - 2001 - 316 pages
...play is beyond all art, as the tamperings with it show.*"7 He observes with sarcasm that the original is too hard and stony; it must have love-scenes, and...lover too. Tate has put his hook in the nostrils of the Leviathan, for Garrick and his followers, the show-men of the scene, to draw the mighty beast about... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1907 - 312 pages
...ordinary purposes of life, but exerting its powers, as the wind blows where it listeth, at will on the corruptions and abuses of mankind. What have looks...and his followers, the showmen of the scene, to draw it about more easily. A happy ending ! — as if the living martyrdom that Lear had gone through, —... | |
 | 1838 - 418 pages
...things ? But the play is beyond all art, as the tamperings with it show ; it is too hard and strong ; it must have lovescenes, and a happy ending. It is...of this Leviathan, for Garrick and his followers, 1838.] Writings of Charles Lamb. 349 the showmen of the scene, to draw the mighty beast about more... | |
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What gesture shall we appropriate to this ? What has the voice or the eye to do with such things ? But the play is beyond all art, as the tamperings with it shew : it is too hard and stony : it must have love-scenes, and a happy ending. 
