Meanings of tragick in English

The third charge is, a mixture of tragick and comick style.

Rowe is chiefly to be considered as a tragick writer and a translator.

I could as easily apply to law as to tragick poetry.'

Says I, strikin a tragick attitood, Am I GREEN, or am I not GREEN?

Compare the Greek and English tragick poets justly, and without partiality, according to those rules.

It is not, therefore, this mixture of tragick and comick that will place Aristophanes below

In his tragick scenes there is always something wanting, but his comedy often surpasses expectation or desire.

The genius of the tragick and comick writer will be easily allowed to be remote from each other.

Why, I don't think even your tragick pen could make anything of such a campaign as ours has been.

I have preserved nothing of what passed, except that Dr Johnson displayed another of his heterodox opinions- acontemptof tragick acting.

The censure which he has incurred by mixing comick and tragick scenes, as it extends to all his works, deserves more consideration.

As to original literature, the French have a couple of tragick poets who go round the world, Racine and Corneille, and one comick poet, Moliere.'-BOSWELL

Let us pause upon the phrase, for it is a key to the whole attitude of the Augustan mind toward "our old tragick poet."

Tragick and comick sentiments confounded 126.

'Yet, sir, you did apply to tragick poetry, not to law.'

[Footnote 1: These floods are very frequent in the tragick authors: