 | 1831 - 368 pàgines
...head and shoulders to play a part in majestical matters, with neither decency nor discretion ; so as neither the admiration and commiseration, nor the right sportfulness, is by their mongrel tragi-comedy obtained. I know Apuleius did somewhat so, but that is a thing recounted with space of... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1843 - 566 pàgines
...head and shoulders to play a part in majestical matters, with neither decency nor discretion : so as neither the admiration and commiseration, nor the right sportfulness, is by their mongrel tragi-comedy obtained." The objection here is scarcely so much to the mingling kings and clowns, when... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1851 - 624 pàgines
...head and shoulders to play a part in majestical matters, with neither decency nor discretion : so as neither the admiration and commiseration, nor the right sportfulness, is by their mongrel tragi-comedy obtained." The objection here is scarcely so much to the mingling kings and clowns, when... | |
 | Philip Sidney - 1860 - 404 pàgines
...head and shoulders to play a part in majestical matters, with neither decency nor discretion ; so as neither the admiration and commiseration, nor the right sportfulness, is by their mongrel tragi-comedy obtained. I know Apuleius did somewhat so, but that is a thing recounted with space of... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1876 - 466 pàgines
...head and shoulders to play a part in majcstical matters, with neither decency nor discretion ; so as arbarians, were there not such frequent Returns of a stated Time, in which the whole Vill tragi-comedy obtained. I know Apuleius did somewhat so, but that is a thing recounted with space of... | |
 | Heinrich Breitinger - 1879 - 92 pàgines
...head and shoulders, to play a part in majestical matters, with neither decency nor discretion. So as neither the admiration and commiseration nor the right sportfulness is by their mungrel tragycomedy obtained. I know Apulejus did somewhat so, but that is a thing recounted with space... | |
 | Paul Stapfer - 1880 - 428 pàgines
...how all their plays be neither right tragedies nor right comedies : mingling kings and clowns ; so as neither the admiration and commiseration, nor the right sportfulness is by their mongrel tragi-comedy obtained . . . which, like an unmannerly daughter showing a bad education, causeth her... | |
 | 1885 - 626 pàgines
...head and shoulders to play a part in majestical matters, with neither decency nor discretion ; so as neither the admiration and commiseration, nor the right sportfulness, is by their mongrel tragi-comedy obtained." Now, Sir Philip Sidney was the leading literary critic of his age ; but popular... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1887 - 432 pàgines
...how all their plays be neither right tragedies nor right comedies, mingling kings with clowns ; not j because the matter so carrieth it, but to thrust in...by their mongrel tragic-comedy attained." (Defence ofPoesie, Sidney's Arcadia, edit. 1627, p. 563..) "If we mark them well," he concludes, " funerals... | |
 | John Wood Warter - 1889 - 396 pàgines
...head and shoulders to play a part in majestical matters, with neither decency nor discretion ; so as neither the admiration and commiseration nor the right sportfulness is by their mongrel tragi-comedy obtained. I know Apuleius did somewhat so, but that is a thing recounted with space of... | |
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But, besides these gross absurdities, how all their plays be neither right tragedies nor right comedies, mingling kings and clowns, not because the matter so carrieth it, but thrust in the clown by head and shoulders to play a part in majestical matters,... 
