 ... 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
 | Michael O'Neill, Mark Sandy - 2006 - 412 pages
...the fact that his plays are 'not in the rigorous and critical sense either tragedies or comedies, but compositions of a distinct kind; exhibiting the real...proportion and innumerable modes of combination', he does so by saying that in the world as it is 'at the same time, the reveller is hasting to his wine,... | |
 | Jennifer Wallace - 2007 - 193 pages
...later. 'Shakespeare's plays are not in the rigorous and critical sense either tragedies or comedies, but compositions of a distinct kind; exhibiting the real...proportion and innumerable modes of combination', observed Samuel Johnson.51 Each play contains elements of the tragic and the comic, regardless of whether... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2008 - 380 pages
...examined. 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 gain of another; in which, at the same time, the reveler is hasting to wine, and the mourner burying his friend; in which the malignity of one is sometimes... | |
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