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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 National Fifth Reader: Containing a Complete and Practical Treatise on ...

Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - 1873 - 614 pages
...nature, which partakes of good and evil, joy and sorrow, mingled with endless variety of proportion, and innumerable modes of combination ; and expressing...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...
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Sanders' Rhetorical, Or, Union Sixth Reader: Embracing a Full Exposition of ...

Charles Walton Sanders - 1876 - 622 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 his wine, and the mourner burying his friend ; in which the malignity of one...
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Great Authors of All Ages: Being Selections from the Prose Works of Eminent ...

Samuel Austin Allibone - 1879 - 576 pages
...nature, which partakes of good and evil, joy and sorrow, mingled with endless variety of proportion, hastening to his wine, and the mourner burying his friend : in which the malignity of one is sometimes...
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The Complete Works of William Shakespeare: Comprising His Plays, and Poems ...

William Shakespeare - 1882 - 996 pages
...nature, which partakes of good and evil , joy and sorrow, mingled with endless variety of yruportion ling out, when all is done. fiat. Not a whit ; I have...and that Pyramus is not killed indeed; and, for the an other : and many mischiefs and many benefits are done and hindered without design. Out of this chaos...
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School Reading by Grades: First [-eighth] Year, Book 8

James Baldwin - 1897 - 254 pages
...nature, which partakes of good and evil, joy and sorrow, 5 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 his wine, and the mourner burying his friend; in which the 10 malignity of one...
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School Reading by Grades: Eighth Year

James Baldwin - 1897 - 254 pages
...nature, which partakes of good and evil, joy and sorrow, 5 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 his wine, and the mourner burying his friend; in which the 10 malignity of one...
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Eighteenth Century Essays on Shakespeare

David Nichol Smith - 1903 - 434 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 malignity of one is sometimes defeated by the frolick of another ; and many mischiefs and many benefits are done and hindered without design. Out...
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Masterpieces of the World's Best Literature, Volume 5

Jeannette Leonard Gilder - 1905 - 330 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 hastening to his wine, and the mourner burying his friend: in which the malignity of one...
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Mrs. Montagu, 1720-1800: An Essay Proposed as a Thesis to the Faculty of ...

René Louis Huchon - 1907 - 330 pages
...has exhibited the true " state of sublunary nature, which partakes of good and evil, joy and sorrow, in which at the same time the reveller is hasting to his wine and the mourner burying his friend." Shakejspeare's very want of " art " results in a nearer ! approximation to truth, and his plays lose...
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Johnson on Shakespeare: Essays and Notes

Samuel Johnson - 1908 - 254 pages
...nature, which partakes of good and evil, CJoy and sorrow, mingled with endless variety of proiportion and innumerable modes of combination ; and expressing...the malignity of one is sometimes defeated by the frolick of another ; and many mischiefs and many benefits are done and hindered without design. Out...
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