Lectures on the English Comic Writers: Delivered at the Surry InstitutionTaylor and Hessey, 1819 - 343페이지 |
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... little episode in common life , depends almost en- tirely on the greater or less degree of interest attached to the different changes of appearance . Or The mere suddenness of the transition , the mere ON WIT AND HUMOUR . 3.
... little episode in common life , depends almost en- tirely on the greater or less degree of interest attached to the different changes of appearance . Or The mere suddenness of the transition , the mere ON WIT AND HUMOUR . 3.
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... less admirable ; and Joseph Surface's cant maxims of morality , when once disarmed of their power to do hurt , become sufficiently ludicrous . -We laugh at that in others which is a serious matter to ourselves ; because our self - love ...
... less admirable ; and Joseph Surface's cant maxims of morality , when once disarmed of their power to do hurt , become sufficiently ludicrous . -We laugh at that in others which is a serious matter to ourselves ; because our self - love ...
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... less , the mean more light and worthless ; or to divert our admiration or wean our affections from that which is lofty and impressive , instead of producing a more intense admiration and exalted passion , as poetry does . Wit may ...
... less , the mean more light and worthless ; or to divert our admiration or wean our affections from that which is lofty and impressive , instead of producing a more intense admiration and exalted passion , as poetry does . Wit may ...
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... less renown , and giving a rival credit for it as his loftiest praise . In a word , the shrewd separation or disentangling of ideas that seem the same , or where the secret contradiction is not sufficiently suspected , and is of a ...
... less renown , and giving a rival credit for it as his loftiest praise . In a word , the shrewd separation or disentangling of ideas that seem the same , or where the secret contradiction is not sufficiently suspected , and is of a ...
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... less surprising , in proportion as the thought suggested is more complete and satisfactory , from its being inherent in the nature of the things themselves . Hæret lateri lethalis arundo . Truth makes the greatest libel ; and it is that ...
... less surprising , in proportion as the thought suggested is more complete and satisfactory , from its being inherent in the nature of the things themselves . Hæret lateri lethalis arundo . Truth makes the greatest libel ; and it is that ...
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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.