Lectures on the English Comic Writers: Delivered at the Surry InstitutionTaylor and Hessey, 1819 - 343 oldal |
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20. oldal
... " There is another source of comic humour which has been but little touched on or attended to by the critics - not the infliction of casual pain , but the pursuit of uncertain pleasure and idle gal- lantry 20 ON WIT AND HUMOUR .
... " There is another source of comic humour which has been but little touched on or attended to by the critics - not the infliction of casual pain , but the pursuit of uncertain pleasure and idle gal- lantry 20 ON WIT AND HUMOUR .
40. oldal
... critics are aware of this vice and infirmity in our nature , and play upon it with periodical success . The meanest weapons are strong enough for this kind of warfare , and the meanest hands can wield them . Spleen can subsist on any ...
... critics are aware of this vice and infirmity in our nature , and play upon it with periodical success . The meanest weapons are strong enough for this kind of warfare , and the meanest hands can wield them . Spleen can subsist on any ...
51. oldal
... criticism . The same remarks apply in a greater degree to the Tartuffe . The long speeches and reasonings in this play tire one almost to death : they may be very good logic , or rhetoric , or phi- losophy , or any thing but comedy . If ...
... criticism . The same remarks apply in a greater degree to the Tartuffe . The long speeches and reasonings in this play tire one almost to death : they may be very good logic , or rhetoric , or phi- losophy , or any thing but comedy . If ...
54. oldal
... critic in reading them , that is , his gene- ral indisposition to sympathise heartily and spon- taneously with works of high - wrought passion or imagination . There is not in any part of this author's writings the slightest trace of ...
... critic in reading them , that is , his gene- ral indisposition to sympathise heartily and spon- taneously with works of high - wrought passion or imagination . There is not in any part of this author's writings the slightest trace of ...
92. oldal
... by counting the syllables . " If the father of criticism has rightly de- nominated poetry τεχνη μιμητική , an imitative art , these writers will , without great wrong , lose their LECTURE III ON COWLEY, BUTLER, SUCKLING, ETHEREge, &c.
... by counting the syllables . " If the father of criticism has rightly de- nominated poetry τεχνη μιμητική , an imitative art , these writers will , without great wrong , lose their LECTURE III ON COWLEY, BUTLER, SUCKLING, ETHEREge, &c.
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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. oldal - 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. oldal - 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. oldal - 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. oldal - 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. oldal - 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. oldal - 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. oldal - ... 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. oldal - 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. oldal - 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. oldal - 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.