10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SPORTFULNESS»
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sportfulness in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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Critical and Miscellaneous Essays: By Thomas Carlyle
The man of Humour sees common life, even mean life, under the new light of
sportfulness and love; whatever has existence has a charm for him. Humour has
justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius. He who wants it, ...
2
Theatre Studies: The Basics
Tragicomedy, argues Sidney, provides neither the katharsis ('admiration and
commiseration' is his version of 'fear and pity') appropriate to tragedy, nor the
energy, the warmth and jollity ('the right sportfulness'), which comedy properly
evokes.
3
Patronage, Politics, and Literary Traditions in England, ...
So as neither the admiration and commiseration nor the right sportfulness is by
their mongrel tragi-comedy obtained. (1, 199) 'Sportfulness' is the term Sidney
identifies with comedy, because both comedy and sports have common ...
4
Critical and miscellanous essays
The man of Humour sees common life, even mean life, under the new light of
sportfulness and love; whatever has existence has a charm for him. Humour has
justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius. He who wants it, ...
5
The Modern British Essayists: Carlyle, Thomas. Critical and ...
properly the exponent of low things ; that which first renders them poetical to the
mind. The man of Humour sees common life, even mean life, under the new light
of sportfulness and love; whatever has existence has a charm for him. Humour ...
6
Women Beware Women: A critical guide
The 'mongrel tragicomedy' criticized by Sidney cannot achieve properly tragic '
admiration or commiseration' or comic 'sportfulness' because the play is not
judicious in its deployment of distinct generic types. His complaint here is
specifically ...
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A grammar without rules, or, Useful synonyms exemplified for ...
Lively Lively Liveliness Sportive Sportively Sportiveness= sport Sportful Sportfully
Sportfulness Merry Merrily Merriment = mirth Mirthful Mirthfully Mirthfulness
Playful Playfully Playfulness It is pretty =m"e«, to see=behold, hoi fit, the little ...
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Encyclopaedia Londinensis, or, Universal dictionary of arts, ...
The otter got out of the river, and in weeded himself so, as the ladies lost the
further marking of his sportfulness. Sidney. — When sadness dejects me, either I
countermine it with another sadness, or I kindle squibs about me again, and fly
into ...
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A Dictionary of the English Language: Intended to Exhibi ... ...
Down he alights among the sportful herd. Milton. 2. Ludicrous ; done in jest or for
mere play. These are no sportful productions of the soil. Bentley. SPORTFULLY,
adv. In mirth; in jest; for the sake of diversion ; playfully. SPORTFULNESS, n.
look,. because. of. the. sportfulness. of. your children. You were young once
yourself; let your children be young. Because your eyes are dim and your ankles
are stiff, do not denounce sport— fulness in those whose eyes there is the first
luster, ...
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