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 - Strana 323podľa sir Walter Scott (bart [prose, collected]) - 1827Úplné zobrazenie - O tejto knihe
| 1831 - Počet stránok 368
...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 - Počet stránok 430
..." 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 - Počet stránok 424
...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 - Počet stránok 418
...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 - Počet stránok 566
...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 - Počet stránok 624
...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 - Počet stránok 404
...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 - Počet stránok 466
...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 - Počet stránok 92
...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 - Počet stránok 428
...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... | |
| |