| Philip Sidney - 1724 - 270 pages
...the dulled wit may conceive it. But The Defenfe of Poefy. 45 fjut befides thefe grofs abfurdities, how all their plays be neither right tragedies, nor right comedies, mingling kings and clown*, not becaufe the matter fo carneth, but thruft in the clown by head and moulders, to play a... | |
| Sir Philip Sidney - Poetry - 1787 - 158 pages
...needs no farther to be enlarged $ the dulleft wit may conceive it. But befides thefe grpfs abfurdities, how all their plays be neither right Tragedies nor right Comedies, mingling Kings and Clowns, not becaufe the matter fo carrieth, but thruft in the clown by head and fhoulders to play a part in rnajeflical... | |
| William Shakespeare - English drama (Comedy) - 1872 - 480 pages
...imagine, and art hath taught, and all ancient examples justified. But, besides these gross ubsurdities, all their plays be neither right tragedies nor right...the clown by head and shoulders, to play a part in majestical matters with neither decency nor discretion." From all which it is evident enough that very... | |
| sir Walter Scott (bart [prose, collected]) - 1827 - 488 pages
...tired until the fool came on the stage again. Hence Sir Philip Sidney's censure on these dramatists, " how all their plays be neither right tragedies nor right comedies, mingling kings with clowns ; not because the matter so carrieth it, but to thrust in the clown, by head and shoulders,... | |
| English literature - 1831 - 368 pages
...no farther to be enlarged ; the dullest wit may conceive it. But, besides these gross absurdities, how all their plays be neither right tragedies nor...the clown by head and shoulders to play a part in majestical matters, with neither decency nor discretion ; so as neither the admiration and commiseration,... | |
| Walter Scott - Chilvary - 1834 - 424 pages
...tired until thefool came onthe stage again. Hence Sir Philip Sidney's censure on these dramatists, " how all their plays be neither right tragedies nor right comedies, mingling kings with clowns ; not because the matter so carrieth it, but to thrust in the clown, by head and shoulders,... | |
| Sir Walter Scott - France - 1834 - 418 pages
...tired until thefool came on the stage again. Hence Sir Philip Sidney's censure on these dramatists, " how all their plays be neither right tragedies nor right comedies, mingling kings with clowns; not because the matter so carrieth it, but to thrust in the clown, by head and shoulders,... | |
| Charles Knight - Great Britain - 1841 - 440 pages
...preference of the classic school over the romantic, by objecting, as Sir Philip Sidney objects, that "plays be neither right tragedies nor right comedies mingling kings and clowns." There had been, according to Spenser, a state of the drama that would " Fill with pleasure The listeners'... | |
| Charles Knight - 1843 - 566 pages
...preference of the classic school over the romantic, by objecting, as Sir Philip Sidney objects, that " plays be neither right tragedies nor right comedies, mingling kings and clowns." There had been, according to Spenser, a state of the drama that would " Fill with pleasure The listeners'... | |
| William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier - 1844 - 600 pages
...afterwards comes to a point previously urged by Whetstone ; for Sidney complains that plays were " neither right tragedies nor right comedies, mingling...the clown by head and shoulders, to play a part in majestical matters with neither decency nor discretion ; so as neither the admiration and commiseration,... | |
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