 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - English prose literature - 1911 - 744 pages
...chaos of mingled purposes and casualties the ancient poets, according to the laws which custom had prescribed, selected some the crimes of men, and some...occurrences; some the terrors of distress, and some the gayeties of prosperity. Thus rose the two modes of imitation, known by the names of tragedy and comedy,... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - English prose literature - 1911 - 744 pages
...chaos of mingled purposes and casualties the ancient poets, according to the laws which custom had prescribed, selected some the crimes of men, and some...occurrences; some the terrors of distress, and some the gayeties of prosperity. Thus rose the two modes of imitation, known by the names of tragedy and comedy,... | |
 | Literature - 1909 - 498 pages
...chaos of mingled purposes and casualties the ancient poets, according to the laws which custom had prescribed, selected some the crimes of men, and some...of life, and some the lighter occurrences; some the terrours of distress, and some the gayeties of prosperity. Thus rose the two modes of imitation, known... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Criticism - 1920 - 388 pages
...chaos of mingled purposes and casualties, the ancient poets, according to the laws which custom had prescribed, selected some the crimes of men, and some...occurrences; some the terrors of distress, and some the gayeties of prosperity. Thus rose the two modes of imitation, known by the names of tragedy and comedy,... | |
 | Gay Wilson Allen, Harry Hayden Clark - Literary Criticism - 1962 - 676 pages
...chaos of mingled purposes and casualties the ancient poets, according to the laws which custom had prescribed, selected some the crimes of men, and some...as so little allied that I do not recollect among the Greeks or Romans a single writer who attempted both.9 Shakespeare has united the powers of exciting... | |
 | C. A. Patrides - English literature - 1989 - 370 pages
...chaos of mingled purposes and casualties the ancient poets, according to the laws which custom had prescribed, selected some the crimes of men, and some...of life, and some the lighter occurrences; some the terrours of distress, and some the gayeties of prosperity. Thus rose the two modes of imitation, known... | |
 | Michael J. Sidnell - Drama - 1991 - 298 pages
...chaos of mingled purposes and casualties24 the ancient poets, according to the laws which custom had prescribed, selected some the crimes of men, and some...as so little allied, that I do not recollect among the Greeks or Romans a single writer who attempted both <1:Ar/4o>. Shakespeare has united the powers... | |
 | Brian Vickers - 1995 - 585 pages
...chaos of mingled purposes and casualties the ancient poets, according to the laws which custom had prescribed, selected some the crimes of men, and some...of life, and some the lighter occurrences; some the terrours of distress, and some the gayeties of prosperity. Thus rose the two modes of imitation known... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Literary Criticism - 2008 - 380 pages
...chaos of mingled purposes and casualities the ancient poets, according to the laws which custom had prescribed, selected some the crimes of men, and some...as so little allied, that I do not recollect among the Greeks or Romans a single writer who attempted both. Shakespeare has united the powers of exciting... | |
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Out of this chaos of mingled purposes and casualties, the ancient poets, according to the laws which custom had prescribed, selected some the crimes of men, and some their absurdities; some the momentous vicissitudes of life, and some the lighter occurrences... 
