 | John Dryden, Edmond Malone - 1800 - 634 pages
...friend, has left the following anecdote: " When his play of THE SILENT WOMAN was first acted, there were found verses after on the stage against him, concluding, that that play was well named THE SILENT WOMAN, because there was never one man to •ay plaudite to it." WORKS, folio, 1711, p. 926. be no wonder... | |
 | John Dryden - 1800 - 624 pages
...friend, has left the following anecdote : " When his play of THE SILENT WOMAN was first acted, there were found verses after on the stage against him, concluding, that that play was well named THE SILENT WOMAN, because there was never one man w say plauclite to it." WORKS, folio, 1711, p. 226. be no wonder to... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1815 - 548 pages
...above all he excelleth in a translation. When his play of the Silent Woman was first acted, there were found verses after on the stage against him, concluding, that that play was well named the Silent Woman, because there was never one man to say plaudite to it." Drummond adds, " In short, he was in his personal... | |
 | Biography - 1815 - 544 pages
...above all he excelleth in a translation. When his play of the Silent Woman was first acted, there were found verses after on the stage against him, concluding^ that that play was well named the Silent Woman, because there was never one man to say plaudite to it." Drummond adds, " In short, he was in his personal... | |
 | Ben Jonson, William Gifford - Dramatists, English - 1816 - 546 pages
...his *' character" of Shakspeare ! In his letters several poets are Woman was first acted, there were found verses after on the stage against him, concluding that that play was well named the Silent Woman, because there was never one man to say Plaudite to it." Drum. Works, folio, 1711, p. 224-6. The writers... | |
 | Samuel Astley Dunham - Authors, English - 1837 - 418 pages
...excelleth in a translation. When the play of the Silent Woman was first acted, there were found versts after on the stage against him, concluding that that play was well named the SihiU Woman, because there was never one man to say Plaudite to it." The animus with which this paragraph... | |
 | Shakespeare Society (Great Britain) - 1842 - 104 pages
...above all he excelleth in a translation. When his play of the Silent Woman was first acted, there were found verses after on the stage against him, concluding that that play was well named the Silent Woman, because there was never one man to say Plaudite to it. MR. DRUMMOND GAVE THE FOLLOWING CHARACTER OF... | |
 | 1853 - 298 pages
...above all he excelleth in a translation. When his play of the Silent Woman was first acted, there were found verses after on the stage against him, concluding that that play was well named the Silent Woman, because there was never one man to say Plaudits to it. MR. DRUMMOND GAVE THE FOLLOWING CHARACTER OP... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Scotland - 1854 - 364 pages
...above all he cxcelleth in a translation. When his play of The SUcut Woman was first acted, there were found verses after on the stage against him ; concluding that that play was well named Tim Silent Woman, because there was never onc man to say PlIniilile to it. " Drummond has been much... | |
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... when his Play of a Silent woman was first acted, ther was found Verses after on the stage against him, concluding that, that play was well named the Silent Woman. ther was never one man to say plaudite to it... 
