Lectures on the English Comic WritersWiley and Putnam, 1845 - 222 oldal |
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... critics — not the inflic tion of casual pain , but the pursuit of uncertain pleasure and idle gallantry . Half the business and gaiety of comedy turns upon this . Most of the adventures , difficulties , demurs , hair - breadth ' scapes ...
... critics — not the inflic tion of casual pain , but the pursuit of uncertain pleasure and idle gallantry . Half the business and gaiety of comedy turns upon this . Most of the adventures , difficulties , demurs , hair - breadth ' scapes ...
23. oldal
... critics are aware of this vice and infirmity in our nature , and play upon it with periodical success . The meanest weapons are strong enough for this kind of warfare , and the meanest hands can wield them . Spleen can subsist on any ...
... critics are aware of this vice and infirmity in our nature , and play upon it with periodical success . The meanest weapons are strong enough for this kind of warfare , and the meanest hands can wield them . Spleen can subsist on any ...
30. oldal
... criticism . - The same remarks apply in a greater degree to the ' Tartuffe . ' The long speeches and rea- sonings in this play tire one almost to death : they may be very good logic , or rhetoric , or philosophy , or anything but comedy ...
... criticism . - The same remarks apply in a greater degree to the ' Tartuffe . ' The long speeches and rea- sonings in this play tire one almost to death : they may be very good logic , or rhetoric , or philosophy , or anything but comedy ...
32. oldal
... critic in reading them , that is , his general indisposition to sympathise heartily and spontaneously with works of high - wrought passion or ima- gination . There is not in any part of this author's writings the slightest trace of his ...
... critic in reading them , that is , his general indisposition to sympathise heartily and spontaneously with works of high - wrought passion or ima- gination . There is not in any part of this author's writings the slightest trace of his ...
55. oldal
... criticism has rightly denominated poetry Texvп μIμNTIKǹ , an imitative art , these writers will , without great ... critic . The writers here referred to ( such as Donne , Davies , Cra- shaw , and others ) not merely mistook learning for ...
... criticism has rightly denominated poetry Texvп μIμNTIKǹ , an imitative art , these writers will , without great ... critic . The writers here referred to ( such as Donne , Davies , Cra- shaw , and others ) not merely mistook learning for ...
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