Mourning Bride, The

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Thraliana
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Accessed on 2021/01/21 18:54:38

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                <forename>Hester Lynch</forename>
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            <title>Thraliana</title>
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              <publisher>Katharine C. Balderston</publisher>
              <pubPlace>Oxford</pubPlace>
              <date>1951</date>
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        <date to="1778-12-31" cert="unknown">   - Dec 31 1778</date>
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            <surname>Johnson</surname>
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          <ptr target="ukred-22955">"The two [italics] wittiest [end italics] things in our Language in Verse &amp; Prose are Dr Young"s Conjectures on Original Composition I think, and Dr Swift"s Ballad on the South Sea.

The two Tragedies which go nearest one"s Heart I think - in our Language I mean - are Southern"s Fatal Marriage and Lillo"s Fatal Curiosity.

The two best Comic Scenes in our Language according to my Taste are the Scene between Squire Richard &amp; Myrtilla in the Provoked Husband, and that between Sir Joseph Wittol, Nol Bluff and Sharper in the Old Batchelor - not the kicking scene but the friendly one.

The two best [italics] Declamatory [end italics] Scenes where the Sentiments and Language are most perfect, seem to be the Scene between Juba and Syphax in Addison"s Cato, &amp; that between the two Ladies in Johnson"s Irene. I know that both are unDramatic, the latter more peculiarly so, than ever was, or ever ought to have been hazarded - but for Language &amp; Sentiment it is most Superb. - Superieure as the French say.

Johnson says the finest Tragic Scene in our Language, for Drama sentiment, Language, Power over the Heart, &amp; every Requisite for Theatre or Closet, is the Tomb Scene in the Mourning Bride.
[italics] I [end italics] think, that trying to be [italics] every [end italics] thing it escapes being [italics] anything [end italics]"


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