 | sir Walter Scott (bart [prose, collected]) - 1827 - 488 pages
...the Drama, and gratify the taste of those spectators who, like Christofero Sly, tired until the fool came on the stage again. Hence Sir Philip Sidney's...historical plays led naturally into another class, which may be called Romantic Dramas, founded upon popular poems or fictitious narratives, as the former were... | |
 | English literature - 1831 - 368 pages
...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 - Authors, English - 1837 - 936 pages
...decency nor discretion, so that neither the admiration and commiseration, nor the right sporlfulness, is by their mongrel tragic-comedy attained." (Defence...historical plays led naturally into another class, which may be called Romantic Dramas, founded upon popular poems or fictitious narratives, as the former were... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1843 - 566 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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 - Comparative literature - 1879 - 92 pages
...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 - Civilization, Classical, in literature - 1880 - 428 pages
...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... | |
 | 1885 - 626 pages
...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." Now, Sir Philip Sidney was the leading literary critic of his age ; but popular... | |
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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,... 
