 | John Milton, Thomas Warton - English drama - 1799 - 148 pages
...Paradise Lost, Comus, Samson Agonistes, Lycidas, L'Allegro, II Penseroso. Dr. J.WARTON. We must not read Comus with an eye to the stage, or with the expectation of dramatic propriety. Under this restriction the absurdity of the Spirit speaking to an audience in a solitary forest at... | |
 | Joseph Nightingale - 1813 - 436 pages
...compared with the candid and liberal criticism of Warton. We .must not, observes that judicious writer, read Comus with an eye to the stage, or with the expectation of dramatic propriety. Under this restriction the absurdity of the spirit speaking to an audience in a solitary forest at... | |
 | John Britton, Edward Wedlake Brayley, Joseph Nightingale, James Norris Brewer, John Evans, John Hodgson, Francis Charles Laird, Frederic Shoberl, John Bigland, Thomas Rees - Architecture - 1813 - 696 pages
...compared with the candid and liberal criticism of Warton. We must not, observes that judicious writer, read Comus with an eye to the stage, or with the expectation of dramatic propriety. Under this restriction the absurdity of the spirit speaking to an audience in a solitary forest at... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 414 pages
...audience in a solitary forest at midnight, and the want of reciprocation in the dialogue, are overlooked. Comus is a suite of Speeches, not interesting by discrimination...: but perpetually attracting attention by sublime sentiment, by fanciful imagery of the richest vein, by an exuberance of picturesque description, poetical... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 428 pages
...written such a thing as a Mask, especially to a great lord, and a sort of viceroy. Hurd. We must not read Comus with an eye to the stage, or with the expectation of dramatic propriety. Under this restriction, the absurdity of the Spirit speaking to an audience in a solitary forest at... | |
 | Shropshire gazetteer - 1824 - 1028 pages
...compared with the candid and liberal criticism of Warton. We must not, observes that judicious writer, read Comus with an eye to the stage, or with the expectation of dramatick propriety. Under this restriction the absurdity of the spirit speaking to an audience in... | |
 | Thomas Wright - Engraving - 1826 - 300 pages
...which burst forth in full splendor in the divine poem of Paradise Lost. "We must not," says Warton, "read Comus with an eye to the stage or with the expectation of dramatic propriety. Comus is a suit of speeches, not interesting by discrimination of character, not conveying a variety of incidents,... | |
 | Thomas Wright (of Ludlow.) - 1826 - 304 pages
...which burst forth in full splendor in the divine poem of Paradise Lost. "We must not," says Warton, "read Comus with an eye to the stage or with the expectation of dramatic propriety. Comus is a suit of speeches, not interesting by discrimination of character, not conveying a variety of incidents,... | |
 | John Milton - 1832 - 328 pages
...the bright vein of its poetry, intermixed with a softness of description.20 T. Warton observes ' that Comus is a suite of speeches not interesting by discrimination of character, not conveying variety of incidents, nor gradually exciting curiosity ; but perpetually attracting attention by sublime... | |
 | John Milton - 1835 - 350 pages
...cannot refrain from a sort of coarse sneer, which affects to be humour. " We must not," says Warton, " read Comus with an eye to the stage, or with the expectation of dramatic propriety. Under this restriction the absurdity of the Spirit speaking to an audience in a solitary forest at... | |
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Comus is a suite of Speeches, not interesting by discrimination of character ; not conveying a variety of incidents, nor gradually exciting curiosity : but perpetually attracting attention by sublime sentiment, by fanciful imagery of the richest vein,... 
