 ... the real state of sublunary nature, which partakes of good and evil, joy and sorrow, mingled with endless variety of proportion and innumerable modes of combination, and expressing the course of the world, in which the loss of one is the gain of another;...  The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. - Page 85de Samuel Johnson - 1806Affichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | Morton Luce - 1913 - 302 pages
...rigorous and critical sense either tragedies or comedies, but compositions exhibiting . . . joy. or sorrow mingled with endless variety of proportion, and innumerable modes of combination. . . . Through all these demonstrations of the drama Shakespeare's mode of composition is the same,... | |
 | Hans Meier - 1916 - 124 pages
...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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1926 - 392 pages
..." Shakespeare's plays are not in the rigorous and critical sense either tragedies or comedies, but compositions of a distinct kind; exhibiting the real...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.... | |
 | René Wellek - 1981 - 378 pages
...him. "Shakespeare's plays are not in the rigorous and critical sense either tragedies or comedies, but compositions of a distinct kind; exhibiting the real...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."... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1920 - 388 pages
...action: "Shakespeare's plays are not in the rigorous and critical sense either tragedies or comedies, but compositions of a distinct kind; exhibiting the real...the world, in which the loss of one is the gain of jinother; in which, at the same time, the reveller is hasting to his wine, and the mourner burying... | |
 | Meyer Howard Abrams - 1971 - 420 pages
...censure Shakespeare for mixing his comic and tragic scenes. Shakespeare's plays, Johnson says, exhibit 'the real state of sublunary nature, which partakes...evil, joy and sorrow, mingled with endless variety.' In addition, 'the mingled drama may convey all the instruction of tragedy or comedy' by approaching... | |
 | Vassilis Lambropoulos, David Neal Miller - 1987 - 552 pages
...censure Shakespeare for mixing his comic and tragic scenes. Shakespeare's plays, Johnson says, exhibit 'the real state of sublunary nature, which partakes...evil, joy and sorrow, mingled with endless variety.' In addition, 'the mingled drama may convey all the instruction of tragedy or comedy' by approaching... | |
 | David Richman - 1990 - 212 pages
...tragicomic. Johnson's pronouncement is that Shakespeare writes neither tragedies nor comedies, .... but compositions of a distinct kind exhibiting the real...nature, which partakes of good and evil, joy and sorrow, in which at the same time, the reveler is hasting to his wine and the mourner burying his friend; in... | |
 | Marvin A. Carlson - 1993 - 564 pages
...nature," at which Shakespeare is unsurpassed.76 In mixing comic and serious elements, Shakespeare exhibits "the real state of sublunary nature, which partakes...proportion and innumerable modes of combination." Admittedly, this is contrary to traditional rules, "but there is always an appeal open from criticism... | |
 | Joseph F. Bartolomeo - 1994 - 228 pages
...vice and virtue, which distinguish one character from another," 127 just as he admires Shakespeare for exhibiting "the real state of sublunary nature, which...proportion and innumerable modes of combination." 128 Prince Hal, "whose virtues are obscured by negligence, and whose understanding is dissipated by... | |
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