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,... The Miscellaneous Prose Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart - Stran 276avtor: Walter Scott - 1834Celotni ogled - O knjigi
| Walter Scott - 1887 - 428 strani
...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...historical plays led naturally into another class, which may be be called Romantic Dramas, founded upon popular poems or fictitious narratives, as the former... | |
| Walter Scott - 1887 - 432 strani
...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 strani
...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... | |
| Philip Sidney - 1890 - 210 strani
...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 tragi10 comedy obtained. I know Apuleius did somewhat so, but that is a thing recounted with space... | |
| Charles Edwyn Vaughan - 1896 - 330 strani
...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 l did somewhat so, but that is a thing recounted with space... | |
| John Addington Symonds - 1900 - 590 strani
...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... | |
| 1901 - 436 strani
...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... | |
| Thomas R. Lounsbury - 1901 - 494 strani
...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." It is not unlikely that many, and perhaps the large majority of the plays of... | |
| 1901 - 440 strani
...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... | |
| Thomas R. Lounsbury - 1901 - 510 strani
...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." It is not unlikely that many, and perhaps the large majority of the plays of... | |
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