 | Georg Gottfried Gervinus - 1883 - 1020 pages
...unsuitable practice of ' mingling kings and fools, not because the matter so carrieth it, but thrusting in the clown by head and shoulders, to play a part in majistical matters with neither decency nor discretion ; so as neither the admiration and commiseration,... | |
 | John Addington Symonds - 1884 - 696 pages
...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...majestical matters, with neither decency nor discretion ; so as neither the admiration and commiseration, nor the right sport fulness, is by their mongrel... | |
 | John Addington Symonds - 1884 - 706 pages
...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...majestical matters, with neither decency nor discretion ; so as neither the admiration and commiseration, nor the right sport fulness, is by their mongrel... | |
 | 1885 - 626 pages
...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...majestical matters, with neither decency nor discretion ; so as neither the admiration and commiseration, nor the right sportfulness, is by their mongrel tragi-comedy... | |
 | Henry Norman Hudson - 1888 - 486 pages
...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...majestical matters with neither decency nor discretion." From all which it is evident enough that very little if any heed was then paid to dramatic propriety... | |
 | John Wood Warter - 1889 - 396 pages
...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...majestical matters, with neither decency nor discretion ; so as neither the admiration and commiseration nor the right sportfulness is by their mongrel tragi-comedy... | |
 | 1889 - 836 pages
...right comedies, mingling kings and clowns, not because the matter so carrieth it, but thrust in clowns by head and shoulders to play a part in majestical...matters with neither decency nor discretion." " The whole tract of. a comedy," he adds, "should be full of delight, as the tragedy should be still maintained... | |
 | Philip Sidney - 1890 - 210 pages
...tragedies nor right comedies, mingling s kings and clowns, not because the matter so carrieth it, but thrust in the clown by head and shoulders to play...majestical matters, with neither decency nor discretion ; so as neither the admiration and commiseration, nor the right sportfulness, is by their mongrel tragi10... | |
 | Frederick Samuel Boas - 1896 - 578 pages
...blot upon the tragic matter rather than a genuine comic relief: Sidney's words are fatally apt, ' they thrust in the clown by head and shoulders to play...majestical matters with neither decency nor discretion.' Sir Philip has just grounds for his indictment; he puts his finger on real faults. But he was mistaken... | |
 | Charles Edwyn Vaughan - 1896 - 366 pages
...right comedies : mingling kings and clowns, not because the matter so carrieth it, but thrust in clowns by 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... | |
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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,... 
