...that monotonous and unaffecting level of tragick dignity, which never falls, and never rises. iluce seriousness and sorrow, and sometimes levity and laughter....readily allowed; but there is always an appeal open from mixture, and that from Sophocles. The dialogue between Minerva and Ulysses, in the first scene of the...

...which never falls, and never rises. " I will only mention one more instance of this tragi-comick -,'uce seriousness and sorrow, and sometimes levity and laughter....readily allowed; but there is always an appeal open from mixture, and that from Sophocles. The dialogue between Minerva and Ulysses, in the first scene of the...

...serious and ludicrous characters, and, in trie successive evolutions of the design, sometimes produce seriousness and sorrow, and sometimes levity . and...criticism will be readily allowed; but there is always ail an appeal open from criticism to nature. The end of writing is to instruct ; the end of poetry...

...serious and ludicrous characters, " and, in the successive evolutions of the design, sometimes pro" duce seriousness and sorrow, and sometimes levity and laughter....readily allowed; but there is always an appeal open from cri" ticism to nature.* The end of writing is to instruct; the end of " poetry is to instruct by pleasing....

...serious and ludicrous characters, and, in the successive evolutions of the design, sometimes produce seriousness and sorrow, and sometimes levity and laughter....but there is always an appeal open from criticism lo nature. The end of writing is to instruct ; the end of poetry is to instruct by pleasing. That the...

...evolutions of the design, sometimes Koduce seriousness and sorrow, and sometimes levity and ughter. That this is a practice contrary to the rules of criticism...That the mingled drama may convey all the instruction ot tragedy or comedy cannot bo denied, because it inclndes both in its alternations of exhihition,...

...serious and ludicrous characters, and, in the successive evolutions of the design, sometimes produce seriousness and sorrow, and sometimes levity and laughter....nature. The end of writing is to instruct ; the end of lioetry is to instruct by pleasing. That the mingled drama may convey all the instruction of tragedy...

...serious and ludicrous characters ; and in the successive evolutions of the design, sometimes produce seriousness and sorrow, and sometimes levity and laughter....always an appeal open from criticism to nature. The end or writing is to instruct; the end of poetry is to instruct by pleasing. That the mingled drama may...

...serious and ludicrous characters, and, in the successive evolutions of the design, sometimes produce seriousness and sorrow, and sometimes levity and laughter....is always an appeal open from criticism to nature, i The end of writing is to instruct ; the end of ! poetry is to instruct by pleasing. That the mingled...

...serious and ludicrous characters, and, in the successive evolutions of the design, sometimes produce seriousness and sorrow, and sometimes levity and laughter....to the rules of criticism will be readily allowed j but there is always an appeal open from criticism to nature. The end of writing is to instruct ;...