Tragick

To write as Dr. Swift requires an Imagination at once free of Cant and Bathos, Sardonick yet properly Tragick, with a Variety of parodick Abilities most rare.

Did yesterday's hostage crisis teach us anything about Hillary Clinton? Ann Althouse 2007

Truth is, his Tragedies, _Seianus and Cateline_ seem to have in them more of an artificial and inflate, than of a pathetical and naturally Tragick height; yet do they every one of them far excel any of the _English_ ones that were writ before him; so that he may be truly said to be the first reformer of the

The Lives of the Most Famous English Poets (1687) William Winstanley

The Fable is what is generally plac'd the first, among those that are reckon'd the constituent Parts of a Tragick or Heroick Poem; not, perhaps, as it is the most Difficult or Beautiful, but as it is the first properly to be thought of in the Contrivance and Course of the whole; and with the

Some Account of the Life of Mr. William Shakespear (1709) Nicholas Rowe

_From the length by Nature prescribed to all Pieces, Epick, Tragick, &c.

A Full Enquiry into the Nature of the Pastoral (1717) Thomas Purney

I observe that the chiefest Means he makes use of to render his Tragick

A Full Enquiry into the Nature of the Pastoral (1717) Thomas Purney

_John Marston_ was one whose fluent Pen both in a Comick and Tragick strain, made him to be esteemed one of the chiefest of our _English_

The Lives of the Most Famous English Poets (1687) William Winstanley

Thought of every Speech in it, when divested of all its Tragick

Spectator, April 14, 1711 1711

We are told, That an ancient Tragick Poet, to move the Pity of his Audience for his exiled Kings and distressed Heroes, used to make the Actors represent them in Dresses and Cloaths that were thread-bare and decayed.

Spectator, April 18, 1711 1711

But among all our Tragick Artifices, I am the most offended at those which are made use of to inspire us with magnificent Ideas of the Persons that speak.

Spectator, April 18, 1711 1711

I shall here add a Remark, which I am afraid our Tragick

Spectator, April 16, 1711 1711