 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 - Էջ 323sir Walter Scott (bart [prose, collected]) - 1827Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - Այս գրքի մասին
 | 1831 - 368 էջ
...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... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1834 - 430 էջ
..." how all their plays be neither right tragedies nor right comedies, mingling kings with clo \vns; not because the matter so carrieth it, but to thrust...historical plays led naturally into another class, which maybe called Romantic Dramas, founded upon popular poems or fictitious narratives, as the former were... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1834 - 424 էջ
...nor discretion, so that neither the admiration and commiseration, nor the right sportfulness, is hy their mongrel tragic-comedy attained." {Defence of...historical plays led naturally into another class, which maybe called Romantic Dramas, founded upon popular poems or fictitious narratives, as the former were... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1834 - 418 էջ
...the Drama, and gratify the taste of those spectators who, like Christophero Sly, tired until thefool came on the stage again. Hence Sir Philip Sidney's...historical plays led naturally into another class, which maybe called Romantic Dramas, founded upon popular poems or fictitious narratives, as the former were... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1843 - 566 էջ
...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 էջ
...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 էջ
...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 էջ
...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 էջ
...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 էջ
...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... | |
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