Lectures on the English Comic Writers: Delivered at the Surry InstitutionTaylor and Hessey, 1819 - 343페이지 |
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... manner , illustrates the truth of these remarks . The first Cyclopædia that ap- peared amongst us , though almost resembling the original chaos , and scarcely exhibiting even 66 The baby figure of the giant mass Of things , " marked the ...
... manner , illustrates the truth of these remarks . The first Cyclopædia that ap- peared amongst us , though almost resembling the original chaos , and scarcely exhibiting even 66 The baby figure of the giant mass Of things , " marked the ...
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... or quotations arranged chronolo- gically ; and new authorities , including quotations ( when required ) from the works of all eminent writers deceased , inserted ; together with accents 4 to guide the pronunciation , after the manner of.
... or quotations arranged chronolo- gically ; and new authorities , including quotations ( when required ) from the works of all eminent writers deceased , inserted ; together with accents 4 to guide the pronunciation , after the manner of.
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... manner of Walker's Pronouncing Dictionary . The present work aspires to take the very first place , as a com- pendious Encyclopædia . It will be the study of its writers , to blend con- ciseness of manner with copiousness of matter ; to ...
... manner of Walker's Pronouncing Dictionary . The present work aspires to take the very first place , as a com- pendious Encyclopædia . It will be the study of its writers , to blend con- ciseness of manner with copiousness of matter ; to ...
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... manner compounded of these two ! It is a tragedy or a comedy - sad or merry , as it hap- pens . The crimes and misfortunes that are in- separable from it , shock and wound the mind when they once seize upon it , and when the pres- sure ...
... manner compounded of these two ! It is a tragedy or a comedy - sad or merry , as it hap- pens . The crimes and misfortunes that are in- separable from it , shock and wound the mind when they once seize upon it , and when the pres- sure ...
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... manner , any thing we must not think of makes us laugh , by its coming upon us by stealth and unawares , and from the very efforts we make to exclude it . A secret , a loose word , a wanton jest , make people laugh . Aretine laughed ...
... manner , any thing we must not think of makes us laugh , by its coming upon us by stealth and unawares , and from the very efforts we make to exclude it . A secret , a loose word , a wanton jest , make people laugh . Aretine laughed ...
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absurdity admirable affectation amusing appearance beautiful Beggar's Opera Ben Jonson better Brass burlesque Caleb Williams character colour comedy common Congreve Conscious Lovers delightful Dick Don Quixote dramatic elegance Encyclopædia 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 ment metaphysical poets Millamant mind moral nature ness never novel object observation original painted passion person play pleasure poet poetry pretensions racter Rake's Progress 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 Wycherley
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41 페이지 - The hedge-sparrow fed the cuckoo so long, That it had its head bit off by its young.
45 페이지 - ... sometimes it lurketh under an odd similitude ; sometimes it is lodged in a sly question, in a smart answer, in a quirkish reason, in a shrewd intimation, 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...
86 페이지 - I'll change All that is metal, in my house, to gold : And early in the morning will I send To all the plumbers and the pewterers, And buy their tin and lead up ; and to Lothbury For all the copper. Sur. What, and turn that too ? Mam. Yes, and I'll purchase Devonshire and Cornwall, And make them perfect Indies ! You admire now ? Sur. No, faith. Mam. But when you see th...
98 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.
24 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...
139 페이지 - Come, then, the colours and the ground prepare; Dip in the rainbow, trick her off in air; Choose a firm cloud before it fall, and in it Catch, ere she change, the Cynthia of this minute.
98 페이지 - Gave to thy growth, thee to this height to raise, And now dost laugh and triumph on this bough, Little think'st thou That it will freeze anon, and that I shall Tomorrow find thee fall'n, or not at all.
46 페이지 - ... an affected simplicity, sometimes a presumptuous bluntness giveth it being : sometimes it riseth only from a lucky hitting upon what is strange : sometimes from a crafty wresting obvious matter to the purpose: often it consisteth in one knows not what, and springeth up one can hardly tell how. Its ways are unaccountable and inexplicable, being ansv/erable to the numberless rovings of fancy and windings of language.
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? Why so dull and mute, young sinner? Prithee, why so mute? Will, when speaking well can't win her, Saying nothing do 't?
238 페이지 - Dreams, books, are each a world ; and books, we know, Are a substantial world, both pure and good : Round these, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood, Our pastime and our happiness will grow.