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John Home

 

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John Home : Douglas: A Tragedy

During this Spring read Shakspeare [sic] regularly through, and studied the characters of Hamlet, Douglas, Osman in 'Zara', Sir Charles Racket &c and purchased & read a great number of pieces of dramatic biography, and theatrical criticisms.

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Cole      Print: Book

  

John Home : Douglas: A Tragedy

'Read Home's "tragedy of Douglas", I was much pleased with it. I have seen it remarked, I believe in the "Memoirs of Living Authors", that Home [...] has never been able to please an English audience with any but Douglas.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Hunter      Print: Book

  

John Home : Douglas: A Tragedy

'read douglass [sic] & the Gamester'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

  

John Home : Douglas

'I remember that I had to learn, with another schoolfellow (Nesbet), an act from Home's tragedy of Douglas, and a long passage from Campbell's Poems, entitled "The Wizard's Warning", and recite, or rather act the passages with as much eloquence and action as we could muster.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Smiles      Print: Book

  

John Home : Douglas, A tragedy

'Johnson. "Sheridan is a wonderful admirer of the tragedy of Douglas, and presented its author with a gold medal. Some years ago, at a coffee-house in Oxford, I called to him, 'Mr. Sheridan, Mr. Sheridan, how came you to give a gold medal to Home for writing that foolish play ?' This, you see, was wanton and insolent; but I meant to be wanton and insolent. A medal has no value but as a stamp of merit. And was Sheridan to assume to himself the right of giving that stamp?"'

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

  

John Home : Douglas, A tragedy

'Johnson. "Sheridan is a wonderful admirer of the tragedy of Douglas, and presented its authour with a gold medal. Some years ago, at a coffee-house in Oxford, I called to him, 'Mr. Sheridan, Mr. Sheridan, how came you to give a gold medal to Home for writing that foolish play ?' This, you see, was wanton and insolent; but I meant to be wanton and insolent. A medal has no value but as a stamp of merit. And was Sheridan to assume to himself the right of giving that stamp?"'

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Sheridan      Print: Book

 

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