...the transactions of the world, and a confessor predict the progress of the passions, 30 Shakespeare's plays are not, in the rigorous and critical sense,...nature, which partakes of good and evil, joy and sorrow, 5 mingled with endless variety of proportion and innumerable modes of combination; and expressing the...

...the transactions of the world, and a confessor predict the progress of the passions. 30 Shakespeare's plays are not, in the rigorous and critical sense,...nature, which partakes of good and evil, joy and sorrow, 5 mingled with endless variety of proportion and innumerable modes of combination; and expressing the...

...life, mixing " the comic jand tragic scenes" as they are mixed in ^reality. He has exhibited the true " state of sublunary nature, which partakes of good and evil, joy and sorrow, in which at the same time the reveller is hasting to his wine and the mourner burying his friend."...

...more consideration. Let the fact be first stated, and then examined. • •••)• Shakespeare's plays are not in the rigorous and ' critical sense either tragedies or comedies, but com1 positions of a distinct kind ; exhibiting the real state ; of sublunary nature, which partakes...

...work's, deserves more consideration. Let the fact be first stated, and then^xamined. Shakespeare's plays are not, in the rigorous and critical sense,...distinct kind, exhibiting the real state of sublunary naturer which partakes of good and evil, joy and sorrow, mingled with endless variety of proportion...

...works, deserves more consideration. Let the fact be first stated, and then examined. Shakespeare's plays are not, in the rigorous and critical sense,...comedies, but compositions of a distinct kind, exhibiting tlte reaTstate of snblunary nature, whicrfpartakes of good arid evil, joy and sorrow, mingled with...

...distinguished the three kinds (History, Comedy, Tragedy) by any definite idea. . . . Shakespeare's plays are not in the rigorous and critical sense either tragedies or comedies, but compositions exhibiting . . . joy. or sorrow mingled with endless variety of proportion, and innumerable modes of...

...geworden, wenn Shakespeare sie nicht mit Narrenspässen gefüllt hätte. Shakespear's plays are — exhibiting the real state of sublunary nature, which partakes of good and evil, joy and sorrow. — Shakespear has united the power of exciting laughter and sorrow — in one composition. That this...

...upon his ass." 394. scene individable. I should like to quote from Johnson's Preface : " Shakespeare's plays are not in the rigorous and critical sense either...of proportion and innumerable modes of combination Shakespeare has united the powers of exciting laughter and sorrow not only in one mind but in one composition....

...of tragedy and comedy by going so far as to deny the distinctions of genres in him. "Shakespeare's plays are not in the rigorous and critical sense either...endless variety of proportion and innumerable modes of combinations; and expressing the course of the world, in which the loss of one is the gain of another."...