 | Philip Sidney - 1724 - 270 pàgines
...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 - 1787 - 158 pàgines
...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 - 1872 - 480 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...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,... | |
 | 1831 - 368 pàgines
...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 - 1834 - 424 pàgines
...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 - 1834 - 418 pàgines
...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 - 1841 - 440 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...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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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,... 
