 | Edmund Burke - 1759 - 516 ページ
...the judicious critk admires his original excellencies, it may well be quellioned whether the croud be not drawn by certain fecondary circumftances, rather...difcernment of his real powers. Need we any other proofs of this than the conduft of his fashionable hearers? Who fit with the feme face of admiration... | |
 | Thomas Davies - 1780 - 372 ページ
...caufes, beyond thofe of any other entertainment; fo, while the judicious critic admires his original excellencies, it may well be queftioned, whether the...with the fame face of admiration at Lear, an opera, and a pantomime?" This is an unaccountable mixture of praife and cenfure on the actor and his auditors,... | |
 | Thomas Davies - 1781 - 556 ページ
...caufes, beyond thofe of any other entertainment ; fo while the judicious critic admires his original excellencies, it may well be queftioned, whether the...with the fame face of admiration at Lear, an opera, and a pantomime ?" This is an unaccountable mixture of praife and cenfure on the actor and his auditors,... | |
 | Thomas Davies - 1818 - 262 ページ
...fjuestioned, whether the crowd be not drawn by certain secondary circumstances, rather than by a discernment of his real powers. Need we any other proof of this than the conduct of his fashionable hearers, who sit with the same face of admiration at Lear, an opera, and a pantomime ?"... | |
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But as the attractions of the theatre arife from a complication of caufes, beyond thofe of any other entertainment; fo, while the judicious critic admires his original excellencies, it may well be queftioned, whether the crowd be not drawn by certain... 