Lectures on the English Comic WritersWiley and Putnam, 1845 - 222 oldal |
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8. oldal
... called keeping in comic character , as we see it very finely exem- plified in Sancho Panza and Don Quixote . The proverbial phlegm and the romantic gravity of these two celebrated persons may be regarded as the height of this kind of ...
... called keeping in comic character , as we see it very finely exem- plified in Sancho Panza and Don Quixote . The proverbial phlegm and the romantic gravity of these two celebrated persons may be regarded as the height of this kind of ...
11. oldal
... called the Silent , " is a consummation of the jest , though , if it had really taken place , it would have been carrying the joke too far . There are a thousand instances of the same sort in the Thousand and One Nights , which are an ...
... called the Silent , " is a consummation of the jest , though , if it had really taken place , it would have been carrying the joke too far . There are a thousand instances of the same sort in the Thousand and One Nights , which are an ...
18. oldal
... called distinguishing and discerning , and judging between thing and thing , in case such discern- ing be not easy , are said to have a good judgment ; and particularly in matter of conversation and business , wherein times , places ...
... called distinguishing and discerning , and judging between thing and thing , in case such discern- ing be not easy , are said to have a good judgment ; and particularly in matter of conversation and business , wherein times , places ...
21. oldal
... called the ' World ' to a lady at church , who seeing him look thoughtful , asked what he was thinking of " The next World , ” — is a per- version of an established formula of language , something of the same kind . — Rhymes are ...
... called the ' World ' to a lady at church , who seeing him look thoughtful , asked what he was thinking of " The next World , ” — is a per- version of an established formula of language , something of the same kind . — Rhymes are ...
28. oldal
... called laughing people . A professed laugher is as contemptible and tiresome a character as a professed wit : the one is always contriving something to laugh at , the other is always laughing at nothing . An excess of levity is as ...
... called laughing people . A professed laugher is as contemptible and tiresome a character as a professed wit : the one is always contriving something to laugh at , the other is always laughing at nothing . An excess of levity is as ...
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