Lectures on the English Comic WritersWiley and Putnam, 1845 - 222 oldal |
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12. oldal
... Pope , fairly confesses that " he could not read them in his old age . " There is another source of comic humour which has been but little touched on or attended to by the critics — not the inflic tion of casual pain , but the pursuit ...
... Pope , fairly confesses that " he could not read them in his old age . " There is another source of comic humour which has been but little touched on or attended to by the critics — not the inflic tion of casual pain , but the pursuit ...
17. oldal
... Pope on the Lord Mayor's show- " Now night descending , the proud scene is o'er ; But lives in Settle's numbers one day more . " This is certainly as mortifying an inversion of the idea of poeti- cal immortality as could be thought of ...
... Pope on the Lord Mayor's show- " Now night descending , the proud scene is o'er ; But lives in Settle's numbers one day more . " This is certainly as mortifying an inversion of the idea of poeti- cal immortality as could be thought of ...
25. oldal
... Pope— ter is sense , " Tis with our judgments as our watches , none Go just alike ; yet each believes his own- " are witty rather than poetical ; because the truth they convey is a mere dry observation on human life , without elevation ...
... Pope— ter is sense , " Tis with our judgments as our watches , none Go just alike ; yet each believes his own- " are witty rather than poetical ; because the truth they convey is a mere dry observation on human life , without elevation ...
30. oldal
... Pope's characters of women , ) but not exactly in the spirit of comic dialogue . The strictures of Rousseau on this play , in his ' Letter to D'Alembert , ' are a fine specimen of the best philosophical criticism . - The same remarks ...
... Pope's characters of women , ) but not exactly in the spirit of comic dialogue . The strictures of Rousseau on this play , in his ' Letter to D'Alembert , ' are a fine specimen of the best philosophical criticism . - The same remarks ...
32. oldal
... Pope . His habitually morbid temperament and saturnine turn of thought required that the string should rather be relaxed than tightened , that the weight upon the mind should rather be taken off than have anything added to it . There ...
... Pope . His habitually morbid temperament and saturnine turn of thought required that the string should rather be relaxed than tightened , that the weight upon the mind should rather be taken off than have anything added to it . There ...
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