Lectures on the English Comic Writers: Delivered at the Surry InstitutionTaylor and Hessey, 1819 - 343 oldal |
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... person it is particularly fond of , and does not find that person there , its countenance suddenly falls , its lips begin to quiver , its cheek turns pale , its eye glistens , and it vents its little sorrow ( grown too big to be con ...
... person it is particularly fond of , and does not find that person there , its countenance suddenly falls , its lips begin to quiver , its cheek turns pale , its eye glistens , and it vents its little sorrow ( grown too big to be con ...
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... persons it is ever so fond of , and either misses them where it had made sure of finding them , or suddenly runs up ... person concealed from assassins , is in no danger of betraying his situation by laughing . tinuous in our sensations ...
... persons it is ever so fond of , and either misses them where it had made sure of finding them , or suddenly runs up ... person concealed from assassins , is in no danger of betraying his situation by laughing . tinuous in our sensations ...
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... person because they never saw him before . Any one dressed in the height of the fashion , or quite out of it , is equally an object of ridicule . One rich source of the lu- dicrous is distress with which we cannot sympa- thise from its ...
... person because they never saw him before . Any one dressed in the height of the fashion , or quite out of it , is equally an object of ridicule . One rich source of the lu- dicrous is distress with which we cannot sympa- thise from its ...
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... person means one thing , and another is aiming at something else , are another great source of comic humour , on the same principle of ambiguity and contrast . There is a high - wrought instance of this in the dialogue between Aimwell ...
... person means one thing , and another is aiming at something else , are another great source of comic humour , on the same principle of ambiguity and contrast . There is a high - wrought instance of this in the dialogue between Aimwell ...
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... person himself of what he is about , or of what others think of him , is also a great heightener of the sense of absurdity . It makes it come the fuller home upon us from his insensibility to it . His simplicity sets off the satire ...
... person himself of what he is about , or of what others think of him , is also a great heightener of the sense of absurdity . It makes it come the fuller home upon us from his insensibility to it . His simplicity sets off the satire ...
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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.