| John Genest - Theater - 1832 - 686 pages
...presuming to meddle with Shakspeare, he went into the playhouse, and without saying a word to any body, took the play from the Prompter's desk, and marched off with it in his pocket — to this Pope alludes in the Dunciad " King John in silence modestly expires." (Davies.} However,... | |
| John Genest - Theater - 1832 - 680 pages
...presuming to meddle with Shakspeare, he went into the playhouse, and without saying a word to any body, took the play from the Prompter's desk, and marched off with it in his pocket—to this Pope alludes in the Dunciad " King John in silence modestly expires." (Davies.} However,... | |
| Alexander Pope - Poets, English - 1882 - 550 pages
...Shakespeare, increased to such a height, that Colley, who had smarted more than once for daring to dabble in tragedy, went to the playhouse, and, without saying a word to anybody, took the play from off the prompter's desk, and marched off with it in his pocket." 4 a. VERSE 254. Compare ver. 132,... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1888 - 534 pages
...highly censured for daring to meddle with Shakspeare, increased to such a height, that Colley Gibber, who had smarted more than once for dabbling in tragedy,...prompter's desk, and marched off with it in his pocket" (Dramatic Miscellanies, voL ip 5). To this Poj>e alludes in the Dunciad (book i.): " King John in silence... | |
| Alexander Pope - Poets, English - 1882 - 544 pages
...Shakespeare, increased to such a height, that Colley, who had smarted more than once for daring to dabble in tragedy, went to the playhouse, and, without saying a word to anybody, took the play from off the prompter's desk, and marched off with it in his pocket," ^a. VERSE 254. Compare ver. 132, and... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1907 - 332 pages
...Gibber, and upon the rumour of the intended desecration getting abroad " such a clamour arose that Gibber went to the playhouse, and, without saying a word...prompter's desk and marched off with it in his pocket." Nothing, however, was lost by waiting. The Pretender did for Shakespeare and Gibber what Philip of... | |
| William Shakespeare - Great Britain - 1919 - 762 pages
...played at the little theatre in the Haymarket, though I do not believe it is printed amongst his works. However, the parts in the Papal Tyranny were distributed,...to alter, in order to dethrone Theobald and place Cibber in his room, in the following line hints at the cautious conduct of the poet-laureate: 'King... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1919 - 760 pages
...played at the little theatre in the Haymarket, though I do not believe it is printed amongst his works. However, the parts in the Papal Tyranny were distributed,...to alter, in order to dethrone Theobald and place Cibber in his room, in the following line hints at the cautious conduct of the poet-laureate: 'King... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1927 - 160 pages
...long-forgotten tragedy. i 'Colley [Gibber] . . . went to the playhouse, and, without saying a word to any body, took the play from the prompter's desk, and marched...his pocket. Pope, in his new edition of the Dunciad, . . . hints at the cautious conduct of the poet-laureat: "King John in silence modestly expires." '... | |
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