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Strictures On Public Amusements.
This Tragedy is the production of Mr . JERNINGHAM the Poet , and although it comes from his pen , is written in a style very like prose . The audience received many parts of it with great approbation , and appeared to be satisfied with the whole of therplay , although there was too much of blood in the business . In this play there are traces of Douglas , and other tragic productions ; and several improbabilities . The drama is extremely
short , but somewhat too full of horror . . The language is uncommonly mixed and unequal . Occasionally we meet " with noble sentiments adequately expressed , apt and strong images neatly and elegantly described , aud bold allusions well introduced and happily turned , and rendered appropriate ; but in general the diction is too familiar and colloquial for the dignity of the Tragic Muse . The Prologue was , as usual , of the supplicatory cast . The galleries were well
described" Who ride the clouds , and are yourselves the storm . " The Ep ilogue was more to the Order of the day . —It complimented the heroic spirit of the present times as rivalling those of yore , as well as those gallant youths , who , lighting in the cause of humanity , « add to their country ' s wreath another flower . "
After a well-turned compliment to the maternal feelings of the Queen , on her - > " illustrious and undaunted sons , " "Who in early youth the race of glory run , " it concluded by drawing an affecting picture of the situation of
France , and our present endeavour to restore her to tranqiility , and " LIFT her to her own esteem . " This play was performed the next evening with many judicious curtailments , and a material alteration in the catastrophe . Ethelberta—no longer numbered with the dead—is prevented from exercising her fatal purpose by the timely interference of the Friar , who ,
following the example of Hamlet , exclaims to the desperate widow—i ' . ' Go to a Nunnery , go . " The forlorn fair-one , with pious resignation , follows the-advice of her ghostly comforter , and Mrs . Pope comes forward with new XIFE , to charm the audience with her Epilogue .
Nov . 13 . < f The WORLD IN A , VILLAGE" is the title of a new Comed y brought forward at , tliis Theatre on Saturday last , and
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Strictures On Public Amusements.
This Tragedy is the production of Mr . JERNINGHAM the Poet , and although it comes from his pen , is written in a style very like prose . The audience received many parts of it with great approbation , and appeared to be satisfied with the whole of therplay , although there was too much of blood in the business . In this play there are traces of Douglas , and other tragic productions ; and several improbabilities . The drama is extremely
short , but somewhat too full of horror . . The language is uncommonly mixed and unequal . Occasionally we meet " with noble sentiments adequately expressed , apt and strong images neatly and elegantly described , aud bold allusions well introduced and happily turned , and rendered appropriate ; but in general the diction is too familiar and colloquial for the dignity of the Tragic Muse . The Prologue was , as usual , of the supplicatory cast . The galleries were well
described" Who ride the clouds , and are yourselves the storm . " The Ep ilogue was more to the Order of the day . —It complimented the heroic spirit of the present times as rivalling those of yore , as well as those gallant youths , who , lighting in the cause of humanity , « add to their country ' s wreath another flower . "
After a well-turned compliment to the maternal feelings of the Queen , on her - > " illustrious and undaunted sons , " "Who in early youth the race of glory run , " it concluded by drawing an affecting picture of the situation of
France , and our present endeavour to restore her to tranqiility , and " LIFT her to her own esteem . " This play was performed the next evening with many judicious curtailments , and a material alteration in the catastrophe . Ethelberta—no longer numbered with the dead—is prevented from exercising her fatal purpose by the timely interference of the Friar , who ,
following the example of Hamlet , exclaims to the desperate widow—i ' . ' Go to a Nunnery , go . " The forlorn fair-one , with pious resignation , follows the-advice of her ghostly comforter , and Mrs . Pope comes forward with new XIFE , to charm the audience with her Epilogue .
Nov . 13 . < f The WORLD IN A , VILLAGE" is the title of a new Comed y brought forward at , tliis Theatre on Saturday last , and