 | J. S. Forsyth - Great Britain - 1825 - 422 pages
...there is still a more copious entry; eg Farther Extracts relative to the Drama and the Stage, 8fc. " To the King's Theatre, where we saw ' Midsummer Night's...insipid ridiculous play that ever I saw in my life. " Oct. 30th. I would not forget two passages of Sir J. Minnes's at yesterday's dinner. The one, that... | |
 | James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps - 1841 - 138 pages
...does not reflect much credit on the acting drama of the time. Here is his extraordinary opinion :f—" To the King's Theatre, where we saw Midsummer Night's...insipid ridiculous play that ever I saw in my life." It was, perhaps, " too etherially poetic" for the gross mind of the eccentric secretary. In the year... | |
 | James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps - Falstaff, John, Sir (Fictitious character) - 1841 - 72 pages
...Restoration, it was revived. ' September 29, 1662. To the King's Theatre, where we saw Midsummer NigJifs Dream, which I had never seen before, nor shall ever...insipid, ridiculous play that ever I saw in my life.' This is from ' Pepys's Diary.' We do not wonder that it was not to Pepys's taste, for he was a coarse... | |
 | Charles Knight - London (England) - 1841 - 478 pages
...the puppetshow ; but that is no great matter from the man who calls ' A Midsummer Night's Dream ' " the most insipid, ridiculous play that ever I saw in my life." Wo believe that they were very good puppets; and the classical story very much improved by being made... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1843 - 566 pages
...Tale might be regarded by the Earl of Stirling as Pcpys regarded the Midsummer Night's Dream — " It is the most insipid, ridiculous play that ever I saw in my life." The refinements of the Court extended to the people. The Bear-Garden was adapted to theatrical performances;... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1844 - 246 pages
...like the puppet-show ; but that is no great matter for the man who calls ' A Midsummer Night's Dream* "the most insipid, ridiculous play that ever I saw in my life." We believe that they were very good puppets ; and the classical story very much improved by being made... | |
 | Elizabeth Stone - England - 1845 - 484 pages
...King's Theatre, where we saw 'Midsummer Night's Dream,1 which I had never seen before, nor ever shall again, for it is the most insipid, ridiculous play, that ever I saw in my life." "And 1667: Nov. 7. 'The Tempest acted,'— 'the most innocent play that ever I saw f — 'the play... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - London (England) - 1848 - 334 pages
...friend's memorandums : — "29th (September 1662). To the King's Theatre, where we saw ' Midsummer's Night's Dream,' which I had never seen before, nor...insipid, ridiculous play that ever I saw in my life. [The gods certainly had not made Pepys poetical, except on the substantial side of things.] "5th (January... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - London (England) - 1848 - 348 pages
...friend's memorandums : — "29th (September 1662). To the King's Theatre, where we saw ' Midsummer's Night's Dream,' which I had never seen before, nor...insipid, ridiculous play that ever I saw in my life. [The gods certainly had not made Pepys poetical, except on the substantial side of things.] "5th (January... | |
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Dream, which I had never seen before, nor shall ever again, for it is the most insipid ridiculous play that ever I saw in my life. 
