 | Philip Sidney - 1724 - 270 strani
...the dulled wit may conceive it. But The Defenfe of Poefy. 45 fjut befides thefe grofs abfurdities, how all their plays be neither right tragedies, nor right comedies, mingling kings and clown*, not becaufe the matter fo carneth, but thruft in the clown by head and moulders, to play a... | |
 | Sir Philip Sidney - 1787 - 158 strani
...needs no farther to be enlarged $ the dulleft wit may conceive it. But befides thefe grpfs abfurdities, how all their plays be neither right Tragedies nor right Comedies, mingling Kings and Clowns, not becaufe the matter fo carrieth, but thruft in the clown by head and fhoulders to play a part in rnajeflical... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1872 - 480 strani
...imagine, and art hath taught, and all ancient examples justified. But, besides these gross ubsurdities, all their plays be neither right tragedies nor right...not because the matter so carrieth it, but thrust in the clown by head and shoulders, to play a part in majestical matters with neither decency nor discretion."... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart [prose, collected]) - 1827 - 488 strani
...tired until the fool came on the stage again. Hence Sir Philip Sidney's censure on these dramatists, " how all their plays be neither right tragedies nor right comedies, mingling kings with clowns ; not because the matter so carrieth it, but to thrust in the clown, by head and shoulders,... | |
 | 1831 - 368 strani
...by the spirit of Polydorus. This needs no farther to be enlarged ; the dullest wit may conceive it. But, besides these gross absurdities, how all their...not because the matter so carrieth it, but thrust in the clown by head and shoulders to play a part in majestical matters, with neither decency nor discretion... | |
 | John Payne Collier - 1831 - 520 strani
...further to be enlarged j the dullest ' wit may conceive it. But besides these gross absur' dities, how all their plays be neither right tragedies * nor...' because the matter so carrieth it, but thrust in the ' clown by head and shoulders* to play a part in ma* George Chapman alludes to this species of... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1834 - 424 strani
...tired until thefool came onthe stage again. Hence Sir Philip Sidney's censure on these dramatists, " how all their plays be neither right tragedies nor right comedies, mingling kings with clowns ; not because the matter so carrieth it, but to thrust in the clown, by head and shoulders,... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1834 - 418 strani
...tired until thefool came on the stage again. Hence Sir Philip Sidney's censure on these dramatists, " how all their plays be neither right tragedies nor right comedies, mingling kings with clowns; not because the matter so carrieth it, but to thrust in the clown, by head and shoulders,... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1841 - 440 strani
...preference of the classic school over the romantic, by objecting, as Sir Philip Sidney objects, that "plays be neither right tragedies nor right comedies mingling kings and clowns." There had been, according to Spenser, a state of the drama that would " Fill with pleasure The listeners'... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1843 - 566 strani
...preference of the classic school over the romantic, by objecting, as Sir Philip Sidney objects, that " plays be neither right tragedies nor right comedies, mingling kings and clowns." There had been, according to Spenser, a state of the drama that would " Fill with pleasure The listeners'... | |
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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,... 
