 | 1898 - 876 pages
...pièces que l'on voit « mingling kings and clowns, not because the matter so carrieth it, but they] thrust in the clown by head and shoulders to play...majestical matters, with neither decency nor discretion... etc. » Faisons une dernière citation, la plus importante. Elle montre que Sidney a vu nettement l'un... | |
 | 1901 - 436 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... | |
 | 1901 - 440 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... | |
 | Oliver Herbrand Gordon Leigh - 1901 - 432 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... | |
 | Thomas R. Lounsbury - 1901 - 510 pages
...mingle kings and clowns, he continued, "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... | |
 | Thomas R. Lounsbury - 1901 - 494 pages
...mingle kings and clowns, he continued, "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... | |
 | Israel Gollancz, Walter Bagehot - 1901 - 242 pages
...Comedies, mingling Kings and Clownes not because the matter so carieth it. but thrust in the Clowne by head and shoulders, to play a part in Majestical matters with neither decencie nor discretion; so as neither the admiration and commiseration, nor right sportfulness is... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1901 - 546 pages
...Comedies, mingling Kings and Clownes not because the matter so carieth it, but thrust in the Clowne by head and shoulders, to play a part in Majestical matters with neither decencie nor discretion ; so as neither the admiration and commiseration, nor right sportfulness is... | |
 | John Addington Symonds - 1904 - 580 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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1904 - 492 pages
...ten to see a dead Indian." Sir Philip Sidney complained bitterly of the Elizabethan clown "thrust in by head and shoulders to play a part in majestical matters with neither decency nor discretion." But the clown served as a compromise with those Bankside merrymakers who have told us in letters and... | |
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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,... 
