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" So that the right use of comedy will, I think, by nobody be blamed, and much less of the high and excellent tragedy, that openeth the greatest wounds, and showeth forth the ulcers that are covered with tissue... "
Autobiography of an Actress: Or, Eight Years on the Stage - Page 437
by Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie - 1854 - 448 pages
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Curiosities of Literature, Volume 4

Isaac Disraeli - English literature - 1823 - 354 pages
...Sir Philip Sidney, in his " Defence of Poesie," VOL. IV. L has the same image. He writes, " Tragedy openeth the greatest wounds, and showeth forth the ulcers that are covered with tissue." The same appropriation of thought will attach to the following lines of Tickell : " While the charm'd...
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Curiosities of literature. (Repr. of the 7th ed.).

Isaac Disraeli - Literature - 1824 - 536 pages
...Shakspearc. Sir Philip Sidney, in his " Defence of Poesie," has the same image. He writes, " Tragedy openeth the greatest wounds, and showeth forth the ulcers that are covered with tissue" The same appropriation of thought will attach to the following lines of Tickell : *' While the charm'd...
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The Library of the Old English Prose Writers ...: Sir Philip Sidney's ...

English literature - 1831 - 368 pages
...measure, whereto yet nothing can more open his eyes than to see his own actions contemptibly set forth ; so that the right use of comedy will, I think, by nobody be blamed. And much less of the hiorh and excellent O tragedy, that openeth the greatest wounds, and showeth forth the ulcers...
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Curiosities of Literature, Volume 3

Isaac Disraeli - English literature - 1834 - 394 pages
...Shakspeare. Sir Philip Sidney, in his " Defence of Poesie," has the same image. He writes, " Tragedy openeth the greatest wounds, and showeth forth the ulcers that are covered with tissue," The same appropriation of thought will attach to the following lines of Tickell ; — " While the charm'd...
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A Defence of the Stage: Or An Enquiry Into the Real Qualities of Theatrical ...

John William Cole - Theater - 1839 - 194 pages
...one. And little reason hath any man to say that men learn the evil by seeing it so set out ; since there is no man living, but by the force truth has...will, I think, by nobody be blamed. — And much less of the high and excellent tragedy, that openeth the greatest wounds, and showeth forth the ulcers that...
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A defence of the stage, or An inquiry into the real qualities of theatrical ...

John William Cole - 1839 - 192 pages
...has in his nature, no sooner seeth these men play their parts, but wisheth them ' in pistrinum :'f so that the right use of comedy will, I think, by nobody be blamed. — And much less of the high and excellent tragedy, that openeth the greatest wounds, and showeth forth the ulcers that...
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William Shakspere: A Biography, Book 2

Charles Knight - 1843 - 566 pages
...glorious example to " these degenerate days." But in those annals are also to be found fit subjects for " the high and excellent tragedy, that openeth the greatest wounds, and showeth forth the uleers that are covered with tissue ; that maketh kings fear to be tyrants, and tyrants to manifest...
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Half-hours with the Best Authors, Volume 4

Charles Knight - English literature - 1847 - 620 pages
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Half-hours with the best authors, selected by C. Knight, Volume 4

Half hours - 1847 - 616 pages
...: whereto, yet, nothing can more open his eyes, than to see his own actions contemptibly set forth. So that the right use of c.om,edy will, I think, by nobody be blamed. And much less of the high and excellent Tragedy, that openeth the greatest wounds, and showeth forth the ulcers that...
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Half-hours with the Best Authors, Volume 2

Charles Knight - Literature - 1850 - 652 pages
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