Lectures on the English Comic WritersWiley and Putnam, 1845 - 222 oldal |
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13. oldal
... grace to Mrs. Amlet's confes- sion- " Though I'm old , I'm chaste . " Valentine and his An- gelica would be nothing without it ; Miss Peggy would not be worth a gallant ; and Slender's ' sweet Anne Page ' would be no more ! " The age of ...
... grace to Mrs. Amlet's confes- sion- " Though I'm old , I'm chaste . " Valentine and his An- gelica would be nothing without it ; Miss Peggy would not be worth a gallant ; and Slender's ' sweet Anne Page ' would be no more ! " The age of ...
22. oldal
... grace , " though there is here a great deal of humour , there is no wit . This kind of wit of the humourist , where the person makes a butt of himself , and exhibits his own absurdities or foibles purposely in the most pointed and ...
... grace , " though there is here a great deal of humour , there is no wit . This kind of wit of the humourist , where the person makes a butt of himself , and exhibits his own absurdities or foibles purposely in the most pointed and ...
41. oldal
... grace and pre- cision . Congreve , who had every other opportunity , was but a young man when he wrote this character ; and that makes the miracle the greater . I do not , in short , consider comedy as exactly an affair of the heart or ...
... grace and pre- cision . Congreve , who had every other opportunity , was but a young man when he wrote this character ; and that makes the miracle the greater . I do not , in short , consider comedy as exactly an affair of the heart or ...
57. oldal
... grace and nature ; tried to do without , or else constantly to thwart her ; left nothing to her outward " impress , " or spontaneous impulses , but made a point of twisting and torturing almost every subject they took in hand , till ...
... grace and nature ; tried to do without , or else constantly to thwart her ; left nothing to her outward " impress , " or spontaneous impulses , but made a point of twisting and torturing almost every subject they took in hand , till ...
59. oldal
... grace in the sentiment itself— " For ' tis my outward soul , Viceroy to that , which unto heaven being gone , Will leave this to control , And keep these limbs , her provinces , from dissolution . " Again , the following lines , the ...
... grace in the sentiment itself— " For ' tis my outward soul , Viceroy to that , which unto heaven being gone , Will leave this to control , And keep these limbs , her provinces , from dissolution . " Again , the following lines , the ...
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