 | Philip Sidney - 1724 - 270 pages
...name chronicled among the beafts he writeth of. What child is there, that coming to play, and feeing THEBES written in great letters upon an old door,...believe that it is Thebes ? If then a man can arrive to the child's age, to know that the 'Poeis perfons and doings, are but pictures what fhould be, and not... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - 578 pages
...more appositely, in The Rape of Lucrece, 1594 : " Black stage for tragedies, and murthers fell." 9 " What child is there, that coming to a play and seeing Thebes written upon an old door, doth believe that it is Thebes?" Defence of Poesie, by Sir Philip Sidney. Signat.... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - 574 pages
...more appositely, in The Rape of Lucrece, 1594 : " Black stage for tragedies, and murthers fell." 9 " What child is there, that coming to a play and seeing Thebes lent ten upon an old door, doth believe that it is Thebes?" Defence of Poesie, by Sir Philip Sidney.... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Actors - 1825 - 1010 pages
...so as to be visible to the audience. In The Defence of Poesie, by sir Philip Sydney, 1595, he says: om the smoke into the smother; From tyrant doke, unto a tyrant brother upon an old door, doth believe that it is Thebes V And Davenant, in the Introduction to his Siego of... | |
 | English literature - 1831 - 368 pages
...worthy to have his name chronicled among the beasts he writeth of. What child is there, that cometh to a play, and seeing Thebes written in great letters...believe that it is Thebes ? If then a man can arrive to the child's age, to know that the poets' persons and doings are but pictures what should be, and not... | |
 | John Payne Collier - English drama - 1831 - 526 pages
...it — ' What child is there,' (asks Sir P. Sidney, in his Apology of Poetry, written about 1583,) ' that coming to • a play and seeing Thebes written in great letters on an • old door, doth believe that it is Thebes ? ' Malone, who misquotes this passage, by omitting... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1843 - 566 pages
...worthy to have his name chronicled among the beasts he writeth of. What child is there that, coming to play and seeing ' Thebes' written in great letters...believe that it is Thebes ? If then a man can arrive to the child's age, to know that the poet's persons and doings are but pictures what should be, and not... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1849 - 582 pages
...worthy to have his name chronicled among the beasts he writeth of. What child is there that, coming toa play and seeing ' Thebes ' written in great letters...believe that it is Thebes ? If then a man can arrive to the child's age, to know that the poet's persons and doings are but pictures what should be, and not... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1849 - 574 pages
...worthy to have his name chronicled among the beasts he writeth of. What child is there that, coming toa play and seeing ' Thebes ' written in great letters upon an old door, doth believe that it is Thebes 1 If then a man can arrive to the child's age, to know that the poet's persons and doings are but pictures... | |
 | Richard Grant White - 1854 - 564 pages
...well-known passage alluding to the appointments of the stage for which Shakespeare wrote : " What childe is there, that, coming to a play, and seeing Thebes...letters upon an old door, doth believe that it is Thebes ?" when the emendator went over the volume.' " — [NA Review, p. 397.] But Mr. Collier does not say... | |
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What child is there that, coming to a play, and seeing Thebes written in great letters upon an old door, doth believe that it is Thebes... 
