Settle has written a comedy which deals with the rehearsal of a new opera, The New World in the Moon.

Men among themselves play their own comedy, but do not rightly assign the parts.

On 25 November, 1786, there was produced at Drury Lane a comedy by Mrs. Hannah Cowley (1743-1809), a prolific but mediocre dramatist, entitled, A School for Greybeards; or, The Mourning Bride (4to 1786 and 1787).

Cicero places his wit on a par with the old Attic comedy; while Jerome spent much time in reading his comedies, even though they afterward cost him tears of bitter regret.

There is no valid reason why Mr. Chambers should not ultimately be remembered as the novelist who left behind him a comprehensive human comedy of New York.

In 1713, our author brought out on the stage a comedy, entitled the "Wife of Bath," which met with no success, and which, when reproduced seventeen years later, after the "Beggars' Opera" had taken the town by storm, fell as flat as before.

Devoted to the study of the classics and encouraged by his sensuous tutor, Giovanni Francesco Zeffi, when not engaged in vulgar orgies, he translated Plato and other writers, and even composed a comedy, which he called L'Aridosio.

BOY. Spectators, we will act a comedy: non plus. STAGEKEEPER.

Gascoigne translated a comedy of Ariosto, and called it "The Supposes."

We present neither comedy, nor tragedy, nor story, nor any thing, but that whosoever heareth may say this: 'Why, here is a tale of the man in the moon.'

As she gave no sign of ending the comedy, he said: "I'm sure, Rosa, if it relieves the pain to have me hold your foot, I'll sit here in the sun all dayif you'll bring the rim of your hat over a littlebut, as for the thorn, it has been out this ten minutes.

I was here amused to find Mr. Cumberland's comedy of the Fashionable Lover, in which he has very well drawn a Highland character, Colin M'Cleod, of the same name with the family under whose roof we now were.

That, too, would have been inartistic, would have turned a comedy of love into rank melodrama.

That gives more comedy, with the comedian as a dish.

The great Homer himself did not disdain to sing the mighty battle of the frogs and mice; and Aristophanes gave the frogs a most important chorus in one of his comedies; moreover, calling the whole comedy "The Frogs," although he had his choice of title-names among many very notable charactersÆschylus, Euripides, Bacchus, Pluto, Proserpine, and other leaders of society.

" "I've been watching the comedy, sir, and I saw you were the star actor, although you took care to keep hidden in the wings.

Only at the last moment did she abandon the sordid comedy, and so prove herself (as we are asked to suppose) cured for ever of the habit of fibbing.

At last I discovered in Galignani's library a copy of Leigh Hunt's edition of the old dramatists, and after a month's study of Congreve Wycherley, Vanbrugh, and Farquhar, I completed a comedy in three acts, which I entitled "Worldliness."

As we commonly conclude a comedy with a [5970]wedding, and shaking of hands, let's shut up our discourse, and end all with an Epithalamium. Feliciter nuptis, God give them joy together.

However, the best men weary in well doing, and for the last few days Hooker's Bend had switched from its intellectual staple of conversation to consider the comedy of Tump Pack's undoing.

They seem to have thought, that as the meanest of personages constituted comedy, their greatness was sufficient to form a tragedy; and that nothing was necessary but that they should crowd the scene with monarchs, and generals, and guards; and make them talk, at certain intervals, of the downfall of kingdoms, and the rout of armies.

In short, I am none of those who endeavour to break jests in company, and make repartees; so that those who decry my comedies, do me no injury, except it be in point of profit: Reputation in them is the last thing to which I shall pretend.'

The difficulty of defining comedy.

But the Romans, without troubling themselves with this order of succession, distinguished their comedies by the dresses[20] of the players.

There seems to have been at that time a considerable number of persons who made a trade of thus editing comedies in Rome; but their names, especially as they did not perhaps in general publish their works,(32) were virtually forgotten, and the pieces belonging to this stock of plays, which were preserved, passed in after times under the name of the most popular of them, Plautus.