Lectures on the English Comic WritersWiley and Putnam, 1845 - 222 oldal |
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25. oldal
... genius : it is the discovering a truth to which there is no clue , and which , when once found out , can never be forgotten . I would rather have been the author of ' Æsop's Fables ' than of ' Euclid's Elements ! That popular entertain ...
... genius : it is the discovering a truth to which there is no clue , and which , when once found out , can never be forgotten . I would rather have been the author of ' Æsop's Fables ' than of ' Euclid's Elements ! That popular entertain ...
30. oldal
... 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 . The ...
... 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 . The ...
32. oldal
... genius of the poet as erroneous and unfounded , that I should say that he is the only tragic poet in the world in the highest sense , as being on a par with , and the same as Nature , in her greatest heights and depths 6 6 of action and ...
... genius of the poet as erroneous and unfounded , that I should say that he is the only tragic poet in the world in the highest sense , as being on a par with , and the same as Nature , in her greatest heights and depths 6 6 of action and ...
33. oldal
... genius than Shakspeare , though assuredly I do not think that Racine was as great , or a greater tragic genius . I think that both Rabelais and Cervantes , the one in the power of ludicrous description , the other in the invention and ...
... genius than Shakspeare , though assuredly I do not think that Racine was as great , or a greater tragic genius . I think that both Rabelais and Cervantes , the one in the power of ludicrous description , the other in the invention and ...
34. oldal
... genius , and tumbles about his unwieldy bulk in an ocean of wit and humour . " But in general it will be found ( if I am not mis- taken , ) that even in the very best of these the spirit of humanity and the fancy of the poet greatly ...
... genius , and tumbles about his unwieldy bulk in an ocean of wit and humour . " But in general it will be found ( if I am not mis- taken , ) that even in the very best of these the spirit of humanity and the fancy of the poet greatly ...
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