| Barrett Harper Clark - 1918 - 532 страница
...to the downright pathetic; and yet he is even reproached by Cœsar for wanting the ri» cómica. All the other comic writers of antiquity aim only at rendering...ridiculous, but never exalt their characters into buskiued pomp, or make what Voltaire humorously calls a tradesman'» traytdy. \ Yet notwithstanding... | |
| Dane Farnsworth Smith, M. L. Lawhon - 1979 - 310 страница
...is "out of its walk" when it portrays aristocratic personages, since all the ancient comic writers "aim only at rendering Folly or Vice ridiculous, but never exalt their characters into buskined pomp."3 Earlier, Goldsmith, dealing with the same problem of "buskined pomp," had distinguished... | |
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