Lectures on the English Comic WritersWiley and Putnam, 1845 - 222 oldal |
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8. oldal
... original bias to any extravagance or folly , the natural improbability , as it were , increasing every time with the multiplication of chances for a return to common sense , and in the end mounting 8 [ LECTURE I. ON WIT AND HUMOUR .
... original bias to any extravagance or folly , the natural improbability , as it were , increasing every time with the multiplication of chances for a return to common sense , and in the end mounting 8 [ LECTURE I. ON WIT AND HUMOUR .
24. oldal
... originals . Without this , they would be good for nothing ; for the immediate contrast would be wanting , and with this they are sure to tell . The best parodies are , accordingly , the best and most striking things reversed . Witness ...
... originals . Without this , they would be good for nothing ; for the immediate contrast would be wanting , and with this they are sure to tell . The best parodies are , accordingly , the best and most striking things reversed . Witness ...
30. oldal
... original genius , is , in my judgment , the master - piece of Molière . The set speeches in the original play , it is true , would not be borne on the English stage , nor indeed on the French , but that they are carried off by the verse ...
... original genius , is , in my judgment , the master - piece of Molière . The set speeches in the original play , it is true , would not be borne on the English stage , nor indeed on the French , but that they are carried off by the verse ...
42. oldal
... original thinking in what he plunders without scruple , than Ben Jonson often did in his most studied passages , forced from the sweat and labour of his brain . His style is as dry , as literal , and meagre , as Shakspeare's is ...
... original thinking in what he plunders without scruple , than Ben Jonson often did in his most studied passages , forced from the sweat and labour of his brain . His style is as dry , as literal , and meagre , as Shakspeare's is ...
54. oldal
... original of the ' Inconstant , ' are superior in style and execution to anything of Ben Jonson's . They are , indeed , some of the best comedies on the stage ; and one proof that they are so is , that they still hold possession of it ...
... original of the ' Inconstant , ' are superior in style and execution to anything of Ben Jonson's . They are , indeed , some of the best comedies on the stage ; and one proof that they are so is , that they still hold possession of it ...
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7. oldal - Never, lago. Like to the Pontic sea, Whose icy current and compulsive course Ne'er feels retiring ebb, but keeps due on To the Propontic and the Hellespont ; Even so my bloody thoughts, with violent pace, Shall ne'er look back, ne'er ebb to humble love. Till that a capable and wide revenge Swallow them up. — Now, by yond marble heaven, In the due reverence of a sacred vow {Kneels, I here engage my words.
145. oldal - I thought of Chatterton, the marvellous Boy, The sleepless Soul that perished in his pride; Of Him who walked in glory and in joy Following his plough, along the mountain-side : By our own spirits are we deified : We poets in our youth begin in gladness; But thereof come in the end despondency and madness.
5. oldal - The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven ; And, as imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing A local habitation, and a name. Such tricks hath strong imagination, That, if it would but apprehend some joy, It comprehends some bringer of that joy; Or, in the night, imagining some fear, How easy is a bush supposed a bear ! Hip.
107. oldal - Attract his slender feet. The foodless wilds Pour forth their brown inhabitants. The hare, Though timorous of heart, and hard beset By death in various forms, dark snares, and dogs, And more unpitying men, the garden seeks, Urged on by fearless want.
73. oldal - From Heaven they fabled, thrown by angry Jove Sheer o'er the crystal battlements: from morn To noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve, A summer's day; and with the setting sun Dropt from the zenith, like a falling star, On Lemnos, the Aegean isle.
88. oldal - Tis with our judgments as our watches, none Go just alike, yet each believes his own.
208. oldal - Two of far nobler shape, erect and tall, Godlike erect, with native honour clad In naked majesty, seem'd lords of all ; And worthy seem'd : for in their looks divine The image of their glorious Maker shone, Truth, wisdom, sanctitude severe and pure, Severe, but in true filial freedom...
6. oldal - O now, for ever, Farewell the tranquil mind ! Farewell content ! Farewell the plumed troop, and the big wars, That make ambition virtue ! O, farewell ! Farewell the neighing steed, and the shrill trump, The spirit-stirring drum, the ear-piercing fife, The royal banner ; and all quality. Pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious war...
62. 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?
205. oldal - And purple all the ground with vernal flowers. Bring the rathe primrose that forsaken dies, The tufted crow-toe and pale jessamine, The white pink, and the pansy...