Lectures on the English Comic Writers: Delivered at the Surry Institution |
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It is a tragedy or a comedy - sad or merry , as it happens . The crimes and misfortunes that are inseparable from it , shock and wound the mind when they once seize upon it , and when the pressure can no longer be borne , seek relief in ...
It is a tragedy or a comedy - sad or merry , as it happens . The crimes and misfortunes that are inseparable from it , shock and wound the mind when they once seize upon it , and when the pressure can no longer be borne , seek relief in ...
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Half the business and gaiety of comedy turns upon this . Most of the adventures , difficulties , demurs , hair - breadth ' scapes , disguises , deceptions , blunders , disappointments , successes , excuses , all the dextrous manoeuvres ...
Half the business and gaiety of comedy turns upon this . Most of the adventures , difficulties , demurs , hair - breadth ' scapes , disguises , deceptions , blunders , disappointments , successes , excuses , all the dextrous manoeuvres ...
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It is the salt of comedy , without which it would be worthless and insipid . It makes Horner decent , and Millamant divine . It is the jest between Tattle and Miss Prue . It is the bait with which Olivia , in the Plain Dealer , plays ...
It is the salt of comedy , without which it would be worthless and insipid . It makes Horner decent , and Millamant divine . It is the jest between Tattle and Miss Prue . It is the bait with which Olivia , in the Plain Dealer , plays ...
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... as jugglers of a less amusing description sometimes march off with the wrongs and rights of mankind in their pockets ! -- I have heard no bad judge of such matters say , that " he liked a comedy better than a tragedy , a farce ...
... as jugglers of a less amusing description sometimes march off with the wrongs and rights of mankind in their pockets ! -- I have heard no bad judge of such matters say , that " he liked a comedy better than a tragedy , a farce ...
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The long speeches and reasonings in this play tire one almost to death : they may be very good logic , or rhetoric , or philosophy , or any thing but comedy . If each of the parties had retained a special pleader to speak bis sentiments ...
The long speeches and reasonings in this play tire one almost to death : they may be very good logic , or rhetoric , or philosophy , or any thing but comedy . If each of the parties had retained a special pleader to speak bis sentiments ...
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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.
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| 제목 | Lectures on the English Comic Writers: Delivered at the Surry Institution Lectures on the English Comic Writers: Delivered at the Surry Institution, William Hazlitt |
| 저자 | William Hazlitt |
| 발행인 | Taylor and Hessey, 1819 |
| 소장 | 미시간 대학교 |
| 디지털화된 날짜: | 2006년 12월 8일 |
| 길이 | 343페이지 |
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