...sink below the most spirited original ' (Essay on Drama). Dr. Johnson gave it unstinted praise : ' There is scarcely any work of any poet at once so interesting by the fable and so delightful in the language.' The playgoing public emphatically approved its pathos. The villain, ' the gallant,...

...well of it also, and Dr. Johnson said : " The Fair Penitent " is one of the most pleasing tragedies on the stage, where it still keeps its turns of appearing,...harmonious, and soft or sprightly as occasion requires. Johnson failed to note that Rowe stole the plot, characters and story of his play from Massinger's...

...upon a sign. The Fair Penitent, his next production (1703), is one of the 7 most pleasing tragedies on the stage, where it still keeps its turns of appearing...fable and so delightful by the language. The story is domestick, and therefore easily received by the imagination, and assimilated to common life; the diction...

...über die Fair Penitent Wort für Wort unterschreiben : Thal is one of the most pleasing Tragedies on the stage, where it still keeps its turns of appearing, and probably will lang keeps them, for that there is scarcely any work of any poet at once so interesting by the fable,...

...reader, though he may question the high eulogium of Johnson, that " scarcely any work of any poet is at once so interesting by the fable, and so delightful by the language." Rowe has not the tragic power which can express passion without rant, and pathos without extravagance....

...and the public taste, in fact, have alike moved far since Johnson wrote of Howe's The Fair Penitent, 'There is scarcely any work of any poet at once so...by the fable, and so delightful by the language.' He has, however, other claims to the respect of posterity. Of the significance of his edition of Shakespeare's...

...Private Woes." This was the play of which Dr. Johnson said that " scarcely any work of any poet is at once so interesting by the fable and so delightful by the language." The domestic theme, the female protagonist, and the insistent appeal to pity were all already familiar...

...reader, though he may question the high eulogium of Johnson, that " scarcely any work of any poet is at once so interesting by the fable, and so delightful by the language." Eowe has not the tragic power which can express passion without rant, and pathos without extravagance....

...and Field, was one of the most successful tragedies of the eighteenth century.1 Doctor Johnson said,2 'There is scarcely any work of any poet at once so...interesting by the fable and so delightful by the language.' Like Otway's Orphan and Southerne's Fatal Marriage, The Fair Penitent is essentially a domestic tragedy....

...the most spirited original."1 Johnson, as has been noted, was more cordial. " There is," he wrote, " scarcely any work of any poet at once so interesting by the fable and so delightful in the language."* Rowe promised in the prologue that his auditors would meet " with sorrows like their...