Lectures on the English Comic WritersWiley and Putnam, 1845 - 222 oldal |
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9. oldal
... beauty and decorum , from this very truth of habit and sentiment , or from the principle of similitude and dissimilitude . The devotion to nonsense , and enthusiasm about trifles , is highly affecting as a moral lesson : it is one of ...
... beauty and decorum , from this very truth of habit and sentiment , or from the principle of similitude and dissimilitude . The devotion to nonsense , and enthusiasm about trifles , is highly affecting as a moral lesson : it is one of ...
15. oldal
... beauty , the splen- dour , and solemn grandeur of the rising sun ; pleasure and power wait on every line and word : whereas , in the other , the only memorable thing is a grotesque and ludicrous illustration of the alteration which ...
... beauty , the splen- dour , and solemn grandeur of the rising sun ; pleasure and power wait on every line and word : whereas , in the other , the only memorable thing is a grotesque and ludicrous illustration of the alteration which ...
27. oldal
... also procureth delight by gratifying curiosity with its rareness or semblance of difficulty ( as monsters , not for their beauty but their rarity ; as juggling tricks , not for their LECTURE 1. ] 27 ON WIT AND HUMOUR .
... also procureth delight by gratifying curiosity with its rareness or semblance of difficulty ( as monsters , not for their beauty but their rarity ; as juggling tricks , not for their LECTURE 1. ] 27 ON WIT AND HUMOUR .
61. oldal
... beauty and pathos , as well as the generous frankness of the sen- timents , coming , as they did , from a determined and incorrupti- ble political foe . Shadwell was a successful and voluminous dramatic writer of much the same period ...
... beauty and pathos , as well as the generous frankness of the sen- timents , coming , as they did , from a determined and incorrupti- ble political foe . Shadwell was a successful and voluminous dramatic writer of much the same period ...
66. oldal
... beauty in such company . The making out the rainbow to be a species of heraldic painting , and converting an angel into a post - boy , show the same rage for comparison ; but such comparisons are as odious as they are unjust . Dr ...
... beauty in such company . The making out the rainbow to be a species of heraldic painting , and converting an angel into a post - boy , show the same rage for comparison ; but such comparisons are as odious as they are unjust . Dr ...
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