 | Michael Werth Gelber - 2002 - 358 páginas
...Guarini... Neither can I defend my Spanish Fryar, as fond as otherwise I am of it, from this Imputation: for though the comical parts are diverting, and the serious...Gravity destroy each other, and are no more to be allow'd for decent, than a gay Widow laughing in a mourning Habit. 19 Tragi-comedy is, he believes,... | |
 | Deborah Payne Fisk - 2000 - 326 páginas
...Action. Neither can I defend my Spanish Fryar, as fond as otherwise I am of it, from this Imputation: for though the comical parts are diverting, and the serious...Gravity destroy each other, and are no more to be allow'd for decent, than a gay Widow laughing in a mourning Habit. (xx, 70-71) After more than thirty... | |
 | Milind S. Malshe - 2003 - 210 páginas
...his position to just the opposite: the English tragi-comedy is called 'Gothic', ie 'barbarous', and "though the comical parts are diverting, and the serious...for decent than a gay widow laughing in a mourning habit."36 While Dr. Johnson's hierarchy of the literary species is typically Neo-classical, his defence... | |
 | Elizabeth Sauer, Professor of English Elizabeth Sauer - 2005 - 217 páginas
...confess'd to be wholly Gothique, notwithstanding the Success which it has found upon our Theatre ... Mirth and Gravity destroy each other, and are no more to be allow'd for decent, than a gay Widow laughing in a mourning Habit' (Works, 20:70-1). Milton's criticism... | |
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Friar, as fond as otherwise I am of it, from this imputation ; for though the comical parts are diverting, and the serious moving, yet they are of an unnatural mingle : for mirth and gravity destroy each other, and are no more to be allowed for decent,... 
