 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - English prose literature - 1911 - 752 pages
...the world, in which the loss of one is the gain of another; in which, at the same time, the reveler is hasting to his wine, and the mourner burying his...the malignity of one is sometimes defeated by the frolic of another, and many mischiefs and many benefits are done and hindered without design. Out of... | |
 | Oliver Elton - English literature - 1928 - 444 pages
...itself a tragi-comedy, and the playwright so presents it. It is a scene ' in which, at the same tune, the reveller is hasting to his wine, and the mourner burying his friend.' That is an obvious and almost commonplace remark ; but not so what follows : ... in which the malignity... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Criticism - 1920 - 388 pages
...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 jinother; in which, at the same time, the reveller is hasting to his wine, and the mourner burying... | |
 | Gay Wilson Allen, Harry Hayden Clark - Literary Criticism - 1962 - 676 pages
...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,...the gain of another; in which, at the same time, the reveler is hasting to his wine and the mourner burying his friend; in which the malignity of one is... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1968 - 218 pages
...joy and sorrow, mingled with endless variety oj proportion and innumerable modes of combination . . . in which, at the same time, the reveller is hasting to his wine, and the mourner burying his friend. Preface to his edition of Shakespeare, 1765 In all his comedies, Shakespeare conveys this dual vision,... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - 336 pages
...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,...the malignity of one is sometimes defeated by the frolic of another; and many mischiefs and many benefits are done and hindered without design. Johnson... | |
 | C. A. Patrides - English literature - 1989 - 370 pages
...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,...the malignity of one is sometimes defeated by the frolic of another; and many mischiefs and many benefits are done and hindered without design. Out ot... | |
 | David Richman - Drama - 1990 - 212 pages
...sublunary 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...the malignity of one is sometimes defeated by the frolic of another, and many mischiefs and many benefits are done and hindered without design.'-' From... | |
 | Michael J. Sidnell - Drama - 1991 - 298 pages
...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,...the malignity of one is sometimes defeated by the frolic of another; and many mischiefs and many benefits are done and hindered without design. Out of... | |
 | Jonathan Bate - Drama - 1998 - 420 pages
...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 gam of another; in which, at the same time, the reveller is hasting to his wine, and the moumer burying... | |
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Shakespeare's plays are not in the rigorous and critical sense either tragedies or comedies, but compositions of a distinct kind; exhibiting the real state of sublunary nature, which partakes of good and evil, joy and sorrow, mingled with endless variety... 
