Lectures on the English Comic WritersWiley and Putnam, 1845 - 222페이지 |
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... things are , and what they ought to be . We weep at what thwarts or exceeds our desires in serious matters : we laugh at what only disappoints our expectations in trifles . We shed tears from sympathy with real and necessary distress ...
... things are , and what they ought to be . We weep at what thwarts or exceeds our desires in serious matters : we laugh at what only disappoints our expectations in trifles . We shed tears from sympathy with real and necessary distress ...
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... thing in it , the ludicrous prevails over the pathetic , and we receive pleasure instead of pain from the farce of life which is played before us , and which discomposes our gravity as often as it fails to move our anger or our pity ...
... thing in it , the ludicrous prevails over the pathetic , and we receive pleasure instead of pain from the farce of life which is played before us , and which discomposes our gravity as often as it fails to move our anger or our pity ...
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... thing of importance to another , or from a state of indifference to a state of strong excitement ; but merely from one impression to an- other that we did not at all expect , and when we had expected just the contrary . The mind having ...
... thing of importance to another , or from a state of indifference to a state of strong excitement ; but merely from one impression to an- other that we did not at all expect , and when we had expected just the contrary . The mind having ...
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... and actions . Of these different kinds or degrees of the laughable , the first is the most shallow and short - lived ; for the instant the imme- diate surprise of a thing's merely happening one way or ON WIT AND HUMOUR . [ LECTURE I.
... and actions . Of these different kinds or degrees of the laughable , the first is the most shallow and short - lived ; for the instant the imme- diate surprise of a thing's merely happening one way or ON WIT AND HUMOUR . [ LECTURE I.
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William Hazlitt. diate surprise of a thing's merely happening one way or another is over , there is nothing to throw us back upon our former expec⚫ tation , and renew our wonder at the event a second time . The second sort , that is ...
William Hazlitt. diate surprise of a thing's merely happening one way or another is over , there is nothing to throw us back upon our former expec⚫ tation , and renew our wonder at the event a second time . The second sort , that is ...
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37 페이지 - tis certain ; very sure, very sure : death, as the Psalmist saith, is certain to all ; all shall die.
24 페이지 - The hedge-sparrow fed the cuckoo so long, That it had its head bit off by its young.
72 페이지 - ... lover? Prithee why so pale? Will, when looking well can't move her, Looking ill prevail? Prithee why so pale? Why so dull and mute, young sinner? Prithee why so mute? Will, when speaking well can't win her, Saying nothing do't?
69 페이지 - tis my outward soul, Viceroy to that, which then to heaven being gone, Will leave this to control And keep these limbs, her provinces, from dissolution.
68 페이지 - tis some bravery. That since you would save none of me, I bury some of you. The Blossom Little thinkst thou, poor flower. Whom I have watched six or seven days, And seen thy birth, and seen what every hour Gave to thy growth, thee to this height to raise, And now dost laugh and triumph on this bough, Little thinkst thou That it will freeze anon, and that I shall Tomorrow find thee fall'n, or not at all...
14 페이지 - The sun had long since, in the lap Of Thetis, taken out his nap, And, like a lobster boil'd, the morn From black to red began to turn...
18 페이지 - Wit lying most in the assemblage of Ideas, and putting those together with quickness and variety, wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant Pictures, and agreeable Visions in the fancy...
62 페이지 - Do we succeed? Is our day come? and holds it? Face. The evening will set red upon you, sir; You have colour for it, crimson : the red ferment Has done, his office; three hours hence prepare you To see projection. Mam. Pertinax, my Surly, Again I say to thee aloud, Be rich. This day thou shalt have ingots; and to-morrow Give lords th
77 페이지 - Drinks up the sea, and when he 's done. The Moon and Stars drink up the Sun: They drink and dance by their own light, They drink and revel all the night: Nothing in Nature 's sober found, But an eternal health goes round.
94 페이지 - Beauty the lover's gift! Lord, what is a lover, that it can give? Why, one makes lovers as fast as one pleases, and they live as long as one pleases, and they die as soon as one pleases; and then, if one pleases, one makes more.