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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... "
The Works of Samuel Johnson, Ll. D.: Containing philological tracts - Page 85
by Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820
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The Tragedy of King Lear: With Classic and Contemporary Criticisms

William Shakespeare - 2008 - 380 pages
...nature, which partakes of good and evil, joy and sorrow, mingled with endless variety of proportion and innumerable modes of combination; and expressing...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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