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It is, in one sense, due to the ‘matter,’ which set a hard problem; but they would be the first to declare that nothing in the poem ought to be only mixedly poetic.

From Oxford Lectures on Poetry by Bradley, Andrew Cecil

This temperament the Elizabethans would have called melancholic; and Hamlet seems to be an example of it, as Lear is of a temperament mixedly choleric and sanguine.

From Shakespearean Tragedy Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth by Bradley, A. C. (Andrew Cecil)

All things definitely manifest, whether to the consciousness that looks without or that looks within, are mixedly true or false, real or unreal.

From The Will to Doubt An essay in philosophy for the general thinker by Lloyd, Alfred H.

A large part of the scene is in Carthage, where, reversing the process in regard to Mezentius, Asdrubals and Amilcars make their appearance in a very "mixedly" historical fashion.

From A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 by Saintsbury, George

That which was begun by Grace, is accomplished by Grace and Free-will; so that they work mixedly not separately, simultaneously not successively, in each and all of their processes.

From Ruysbroeck by Underhill, Evelyn