...first stated, and then examined. Shakspeare's plays arc not in the rigorous and critical sense cither tragedies or comedies, but compositions of a distinct kind ; exhibiting the real state of sublnuary nature, which partakes of good and evil, Iqy and sorrow, mingled with endless variety of...

...supernatural, the dialogue is level with life. Shakspeare's plays are not, In the critical and rigorous sense, either tragedies or comedies, but compositions...innumerable modes of combination ; and expressing die course of the world, in which the loss of one is the gain of another ; in which, at the same time,...

...works, deserves more consideration. Let the fact be first stated, and then examined. Shakespeare's plays are not in the rigorous and critical sense either...compositions of a distinct kind; exhibiting the real state i of sublunary nature, which partakes of good and evil, joy and sorrow, mingled with endless variety...

...works, deserves 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 compoi sitions of a distinct kind; exhibiting the real state of sublunary nature, which partakes of...

...Shakespeare's plays," he says, and the argument equally applies to our English art — " Shakespeare's plays are not, in the rigorous and critical sense,...sublunary nature, which partakes of good and evil, joy and Borrow, mingled with endless variety of proportion aud innumerable modes of combination ; aud expressing...

...then examined. Shakespeare's plays are not, in the rigorous and critical sense, either trage'tlics or comedies, but compositions of a distinct kind ;...with endless variety of proportion and innumerable mode* of combination; and expressing the course of the world, in which the loss of one is the gain...

...works, deserves more consideration. Let the fact be first stated, and then examined. Shakespeare's plays are not in the rigorous and critical sense either...evil, joy and sorrow, mingled with endless variety of pro portion and innumerable modes of combination ; and expressing the course of the world, in which...

...first stated, and then examined. Shakspcare's plays are not in the rigorous and critical sense eifhrr tragedies or comedies, but compositions of a distinct kind; exhibiting the real stale of sublunary nature, which f/artak's of good and evil, joy and sorrow, mingled w th endless variety...

...his works, deserves more consideration. Let the fact be first stated, and then examined. Shakspeare's treets, Enfeoff'd himself to popularity : That, being daily swallow'd expresjng the course of the world, in which the loss of one is the gain of another; in which, at the...

...consideration. Let the fact be first stated, and then examined. Shakespeare's plays are not, in the rigorous or critical sense, either tragedies or comedies, but...endless variety of proportion and innumerable modes 1 The judgment of French poets on these points may be inferred from the tenour of Boilcau's admonitions...