tragicall

During the time of this tragicall expectation, the fame of this publike execution being noysed abroade, calling all people farre and neere to behold it; it came to the eare of Don Rogiero de Oria,

The Decameron 2004

Which tragicall Sceene being passed over, and the Woman and Knight gone out of their sight: all that had seene this straunge accident, fell into diversity of confused opinions, yet not daring to disclose them, as doubting some further danger to ensue thereon.

The Decameron 2004

¶ Thus you haue heard the tragicall discourse of ambitious Becket, a man of meane parentage, and yet through the princes fauour verie fortunate, if he had not abused the beneuolence of so gratious a souereigne by his insolencie and presumption.

Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6): England (5 of 12) Henrie the Second Raphael Holinshed

And thus is the tragicall ende of their enterprise.

A booke called the Foundacion of Rhetorike because all other partes of Rhetorike are grounded thereupon, euery parte sette forthe in an Oracion vpon questions, verie profitable to bee knowen and redde Richard Rainolde

After these tragicall Nouelles and dolorous Histories of Bandello,

The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 William Painter

-- This day proved tragicall to the players at the

Shakespearean Playhouses A History of English Theatres from the Beginnings to the Restoration Joseph Quincy Adams 1913

"These are they that roared at the tragicall historie of the man eating up his dead wife in Virginia" -- "scandalous reports of a viperous generation."

The Complete Project Gutenberg Writings of Charles Dudley Warner Charles Dudley Warner 1864

"These are they that roared at the tragicall historie of the man eating up his dead wife in Virginia" -- "scandalous reports of a viperous generation."

Captain John Smith Charles Dudley Warner 1864

A still stronger proof of the extent to which Shelley had unconsciously imbibed the spirit of Drayton is afforded by a comparison of the noble speech of Fame in “The tragicall legend of Robert Duke of Normandie”

The Battaile of Agincourt Michael Drayton 1597

"The thyrd parte is tragicall, conteyning only lamentations: wherein the first 7 be complaynts onlye of misfortunes in love, the second 7, funerall sonets of the death of perticulars; the last 7, of the end and death of his love."

Elizabethan Sonnet-Cycles Delia - Diana Samuel Daniel 1590