 | Samuel Johnson - 1765 - 80 páginas
...were written, which, by changing the cataftrophe, were tragedies to-day and comedies to-rr.orrow. . Tragedy was not in thofe times a poem of more general...elevation than comedy ; it required only a calamitous concluiion, with which the common criticifm of that age was fatisfied, whatever lighter plcalure it... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson - 1765 - 678 páginas
...which, by changing the cataftrophe, were tragedies to-day, a^l/cqmcdies to-morrow. , . ..._ _...-. ; : Tragedy was not in thofe times a poem of more general dignity or elevation than comedy 5 it Enquired only a calamitous conclufion, with which the common criticifm of that age was fatisfied,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1768 - 676 páginas
...by changing the cataftrophe, were tragedies to-day and comedies to-morrow. Tragedy was not in thole times a poem of more general dignity or elevation than comedy ; it required only a calamitous conclufjon, with which the common criticifm of that age was fatisfied, whatever lighter pleafure it... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1771 - 490 páginas
...plays were written, which, by changing the cataftrophe, were tragedies to-day and comedies to-morrow. Tragedy was not in thofe times a poem of more general...elevation than comedy ; it required only a calamitous conclusion, with which the common criticifm of that age was farisf.ed, whatever lighter pleafure it... | |
 | 1774 - 372 páginas
...written, which, by changing the Cataftrophe, were Tragedies to-day, and Comedies to-morrow. H 4 Tragedy Tragedy was not in thofe Times a Poem of more general...Pleafure it afforded in its Progrefs. Hiftory was a Species of Actions, with no other than chronological Succeffion, independent of eaph other, and without... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1774 - 392 páginas
...Plays were written, which, by changing the Cataftrophe, were Tragedies to-day, and Comedies to-morrow. Tragedy was not in thofe Times a Poem of more general...fatisfied, whatever lighter Pleafure it afforded in itsProgrefs. Hiftory was a Species of Actions, with no other than chronological Succeffion, independent... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1774 - 374 páginas
...by changing the Cataftrophe, were Tragedies to-day, and Comedies to-morrow. Tragedy was not in thofc Times a Poem of more general Dignity or Elevation...only a calamitous Conclufion, with which the common CriticHm of that Age was fatisfied, whatever lighter Pleafure it afforded in its Progrefs. Hiftory... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1774 - 412 páginas
...feem not to have diftinguifhed the three Kinds by any very cixadt or definitive Ideas. fl 4 Tragedy Tragedy was not in thofe Times a Poem of more general Dignity or Elevation than Comedy ; it re-- quired only a calamitous Conclufion, with which the common Criticifm of that Age was fathfied,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1774 - 374 páginas
...Plays were written, which, by changing the Cataftrophe, were Tragedies to-day, and Comedies to-morrow. Tragedy was not in thofe Times a Poem of more general Dignity or Elevation than Comedy i it required only a calamitous Conclufion, with which t'ne common Criticifm of that Age was fatisfied,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 464 páginas
...plays were written, which, by changing the cataftrophe, were tragedies to-day, and comedies to-morrow. Tragedy was not in thofe times a poem of more general...pleafure it afforded in its progrefs. Hiftory was a fcries of actions, with no other than chronological fucceffion, independent on each other, and without... | |
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Tragedy was not in those times a poem of more general dignity or elevation than comedy; it required only a calamitous conclusion, with which the common criticism of that age was satisfied, whatever lighter pleasure it afforded in its progress. 
