Sophonisba

In the year 1730, about six years after he had been in London, he brought a Tragedy upon the stage, called Sophonisba, built upon the Carthaginian history of that princess, and upon which the famous Nathaniel Lee has likewise written a Tragedy.

The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland Cibber, Theophilus, 1703-1758 1753

"Sophonisba", and an epic "L'Italia liberata dai Gothi", but had no real success with either in spite of earnest purpose and beauty of language.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913

This she did, for instance, in the stupid "Sophonisba" of James Thomson, who could write delightful poetry about nature without being able to carry any of that nature into the art of play-making.

The Palmy Days of Nance Oldfield Edward Robins 1902

Oldfield, had a sneaking fondness for tragedy, and when "Sophonisba" was first read in the green room he appropriated to his own use the dignified character of Scipio.

The Palmy Days of Nance Oldfield Edward Robins 1902

On the production of Thomson's "Sophonisba" at Drury Lane, on February 28th, 1730, Cibber played Scipio, but was so hissed by a public that would not suffer him in tragic parts, that he resigned the character to Williams.

An Apology for the Life of Mr. Colley Cibber, Volume II 1889

So Marston in his "Sophonisba," 1606, indicates particularly the instruments he would have played during the pauses between the acts.

A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character Dutton Cook 1856

This patriotic _littérateur_ endeavors to establish the production of Oliva's tragedies in the year 1515, in the hope of antedating that of Trissino's "Sophonisba," composed a year later, and thus securing to his nation the palm of precedence, in time at least, though it should be only for a few months, on the tragic theatre of modern

The History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic — Volume 2 William Hickling Prescott 1827

And in Hannibal's youngest sister, Sophonisba, I found the story of one of antiquities greatest, most tragic love affairs.

David Durham explains his interest in Hannibal and refutes the historical concept of him as a brutish barbarian. 2010

Of battlers against child labor like Florence Kelley, students of social science like Julia Lathrop and Grace Abbot, and Sophonisba Breckenridge, who meticulously studied the conditions of life of Chicago's immigrant and native workers to create a foundation for public policies that improved their lives.

Bernard Weisberger: Onward Wisconsin Bernard Weisberger 2011

The “Sophonisba” of Mairet was sung like that of Trissin, but more grossly; for throats as well as minds were then rather coarser at Paris.

A Philosophical Dictionary 2007