Lectures on the English Comic Writers: Delivered at the Surry InstitutionTaylor and Hessey, 1819 - 343페이지 |
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... lady who pretended to return his passion , and inviting him to her house , as the preliminary con- dition of her favour , had his eyebrows shaved , his clothes stripped off , and being turned loose into a winding gallery , he was to ...
... lady who pretended to return his passion , and inviting him to her house , as the preliminary con- dition of her favour , had his eyebrows shaved , his clothes stripped off , and being turned loose into a winding gallery , he was to ...
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... lady ; the bustle , pertness , loquaciousness , and tricks of the chambermaid ; the impudence , lies , and roguery of the valet ; the match - making and unmaking ; the wisdom of the wise ; the sayings of the witty , the folly of the ...
... lady ; the bustle , pertness , loquaciousness , and tricks of the chambermaid ; the impudence , lies , and roguery of the valet ; the match - making and unmaking ; the wisdom of the wise ; the sayings of the witty , the folly of the ...
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... lady at church , who seeing him look thoughtful , asked what he was thinking of " The next World , " is a perversion of an established formula of language , something of the same kind . - Rhymes are sometimes a species of wit , where ...
... lady at church , who seeing him look thoughtful , asked what he was thinking of " The next World , " is a perversion of an established formula of language , something of the same kind . - Rhymes are sometimes a species of wit , where ...
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... Lady Townly , Count Basset , and John Moody ; in Congreve's Millamant , Lady Wishfort , Witwoud , Sir Wilful Witwoud , and the rest . In another point of view , or with respect to that part of comedy which relates to gal- lantry and ...
... Lady Townly , Count Basset , and John Moody ; in Congreve's Millamant , Lady Wishfort , Witwoud , Sir Wilful Witwoud , and the rest . In another point of view , or with respect to that part of comedy which relates to gal- lantry and ...
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... lady or heroine of comedy , has so many lovers , that she surfeits on admiration , till it be- comes indifferent to her ; so many rivals , that she is forced to put on a thousand airs of languid affectation to mortify and vex them more ...
... lady or heroine of comedy , has so many lovers , that she surfeits on admiration , till it be- comes indifferent to her ; so many rivals , that she is forced to put on a thousand airs of languid affectation to mortify and vex them more ...
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absurdity admirable affectation amusing appearance beautiful Beggar's Opera Ben Jonson better Brass burlesque Caleb Williams character colour comedy comic common Congreve Conscious Lovers delightful Dick Don Quixote dramatic dress elegance Epicene equal excellent eyes face Falstaff fancy farce feeling folly genius Gil Blas give grace heart Hogarth Hudibras human idea imagination imitation instance interest invention kind Lady laugh lively look Lord lover ludicrous manners metaphysical poets Millamant mind moral nature ness never novel object observation original painted passion person play pleasure poet poetry pretensions Provoked Wife racter reason refinement ridiculous romantic satire scene School for Scandal seems sense sentiment serious Shakspeare Shakspeare's shew sort Spectator spirit stage story style Tartuffe Tatler thee thing thou thought tion Tom Jones truth turn vice Volpone whole wife words writers Wycherley
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87 페이지 - Restore his years, renew him like an eagle, To the fifth age ; make him get sons and daughters, Young giants, as our philosophers have done (The ancient patriarchs afore the flood) But taking, once a week, on a knife's point The quantity of a grain of mustard of it, Become stout Marses, and beget young Cupids.
105 페이지 - Why so pale and wan, fond lover? Prithee, why so pale? Will, when looking well can't move her, Looking ill prevail? Prithee, why so pale?
107 페이지 - Her lips were red; and one was thin Compared to that was next her chin, Some bee had stung it newly: But, Dick, her eyes so guard her face, I durst no more upon them gaze Than on the sun in July. Her mouth so small, when she does speak Thou'dst swear her teeth her words did break That they might passage get; But she so handled still the matter They came as good as ours, or better, And are not spent a whit.
99 페이지 - I long to talk with some old lover's ghost, Who died before the god of love was born : I cannot think that he, who then loved most, Sunk so low as to love one which did scorn. But since this god produced a destiny, And that vice-nature, custom, lets it be, I must love her, that loves not me. Sure, they which made him god, meant not so much Nor he in his young godhead...
113 페이지 - Thou dost drink, and dance, and sing, Happier than the happiest king ! All the fields which thou dost see, All the plants belong to thee ; All that summer hours produce, Fertile made with early juice. Man for thee does sow and plough ; Farmer he, and landlord thou ! Thou dost innocently joy ; Nor does thy luxury destroy.
111 페이지 - The thirsty earth soaks up the rain, And drinks, and gapes for drink again, The plants suck in the earth, and are With constant drinking fresh and fair.
45 페이지 - ... in cunningly diverting or cleverly retorting an objection: sometimes it is couched in a bold scheme of speech, in a tart irony, in a lusty hyperbole, in a startling metaphor, in a plausible reconciling of contradictions, or in acute nonsense...
23 페이지 - Do what you will, Sir, you cannot avoid it. Should you even write as ill as you can, your letters would be published as curiosities. ' Behold a miracle ! instead of wit See two dull lines with Stanhope's pencil writ.
113 페이지 - Phoebus is himself thy sire. To thee of all things upon earth, Life is no longer than thy mirth. Happy insect ! happy thou, Dost neither age nor winter know : But when thou'st drunk, and danced, and sung Thy fill, the flowery leaves among, (Voluptuous, and wise withal. Epicurean animal !) Sated with thy summer feast, Thou retir'st to endless rest.
99 페이지 - Confusion worse confounded'. Here lies a she sun, and a he moon here, She gives the best light to his sphere, Or each is both, and all, and so They unto one another nothing owe.