...masters. He says tragedy had fallen into "low esteem or rather infamy, happening through the poet's error of intermixing comic stuff with tragic sadness and gravity, or introducing trivial and vulgar characters, which by all judicious persons has been counted absurd." He took therefore exactly the...

...expressed in Milton's preface to Samson Agonistes (1671), where the author speaks of "the Poets error of intermixing Comic stuff with Tragic sadness and...trivial and vulgar persons : which by all judicious hath bin counted absurd, and brought in without discretion, corruptly to gratifie the people." Cp. also...

...commends Samson the Nazarene for drinking nothing but water. Modern tragedies are condemned for "mixing comic stuff with tragic sadness and gravity, or introducing trivial and vulgar persons" — as Shakspere does. In Paradise Lost the poet speaks with contempt of the romances whose "chief...

...account of many it undergoes at this day with other common Interludes ; hap'ning through the Poets error of intermixing Comic stuff with Tragic sadness and...trivial and vulgar persons, which by all judicious hath bin counted absurd ; an^ brought in without discretion, corruptly to gratifie the peppl^ And though...

...of many it undergoes at this day, with other common interludes ; happening through the poet's error of intermixing comic stuff with tragic sadness and...gravity, or introducing trivial and vulgar . persons." Here, then, we note that, as in j " Paradise Lost," classic forms are used for ' Christian subject-matter...

...sagt, wenn die Tragödie jetzt so geringe Achtung genieße, so rühre das her von „the poet's error of intermixing comic stuff with tragic sadness and gravity, or introducing trivial and vulgär persons." Auch in Bezug auf die Metrik ist Milton ein Anhänger und Nachahmer der Alten. In...

...of many it undergoes at this day, with other common interludes, suffering through the poet's error of intermixing comic stuff with tragic sadness and...without discretion, corruptly to gratify the people.' Lastly, under the story of Samson, as here presented, the poet has adumbrated his own fate — the...

...has fallen into disrepute ' through the poet's error of intermixing oomio stuff with tragic sadness, or introducing trivial and vulgar persons, which by...without discretion, corruptly to gratify the people.' burlaine, speaks contemptuously in his prologue of the clown and his traditional jokes, declaring that...

...stuff with tragic sadness, or introducing trivial and vulgar persons, which by all judicious hath beon counted absurd, and brought in without discretion, corruptly to gratify the people.' burlaine, speaks contemptuously in his prologue of the clown and his traditional jokes, declaring that...

...with other common interludes ; happening through the poct's ' error of intermixing comic stuffwith tragic sadness and gravity, or introducing ' trivial...without discretion, corruptly to gratify the people." It is impossible not to see, in the carefulness of this apology, that Milton felt that he was treading...