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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,... "
The miscellaneous prose works of sir Walter Scott - Page 323
by sir Walter Scott (bart [prose, collected]) - 1827
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The Library of the Old English Prose Writers ...: Sir Philip Sidney's ...

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...
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The Miscellaneous Prose Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart, Volume 6

Walter Scott - 1834 - 430 pages
..." 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...
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Essays on Chivalry, Romance, and the Drama

Walter Scott - Chilvary - 1834 - 424 pages
...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...
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The Prose Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart: Essays on chivalry, romance, and ...

Sir Walter Scott - France - 1834 - 418 pages
...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...
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William Shakspere: A Biography, Book 2

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...
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The Comedies, Histories, Tragedies, and Poems of William Shakspere, Volume 7

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...
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The Miscellaneous Works of Sir Philip Sidney, Knt: With a Life of the Author ...

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...
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Cassell's library of English literature, selected, ed ..., Volume 3; Volume 79

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...
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Les unités d'Aristote, avant le Cid de Corneille: étude de littérature comparée

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...
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Shakespeare and Classical Antiquity: Greek and Latin Antiquity as Presented ...

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...
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