Lectures on the English Comic WritersWiley and Putnam, 1845 - 222 oldal |
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8. oldal
... kind of excellence . The deep feeling of character strengthens the sense of the ludi- crous . Keeping in comic character is consistency in absurdity ; a determined and laudable attachment to the incongruous and singular . The regularity ...
... kind of excellence . The deep feeling of character strengthens the sense of the ludi- crous . Keeping in comic character is consistency in absurdity ; a determined and laudable attachment to the incongruous and singular . The regularity ...
16. oldal
... kind , Mr. Sheri- dan's description of Mr. Addington's administration as the fag- end of Mr. Pitt's , who had remained so long on the treasury bench that , like Nicias in the fable , " he left the sitting part of the man behind him ...
... kind , Mr. Sheri- dan's description of Mr. Addington's administration as the fag- end of Mr. Pitt's , who had remained so long on the treasury bench that , like Nicias in the fable , " he left the sitting part of the man behind him ...
21. oldal
... kind . — Rhymes are sometimes a species of wit , where there is an alternate combination and resolution or decomposi- tion of the elements of sound , contrary to our usual division and classification of them in ordinary speech , not ...
... kind . — Rhymes are sometimes a species of wit , where there is an alternate combination and resolution or decomposi- tion of the elements of sound , contrary to our usual division and classification of them in ordinary speech , not ...
22. oldal
... 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 glaring lights , runs through the whole of the character of Falstaff , and is , in ...
... 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 glaring lights , runs through the whole of the character of Falstaff , and is , in ...
23. oldal
... kind of warfare , and the meanest hands can wield them . Spleen can subsist on any kind of food . The shadow of a doubt , the hint of an inconsistency , a word , a look , a syllable , will destroy our ters . best - formed convictions ...
... kind of warfare , and the meanest hands can wield them . Spleen can subsist on any kind of food . The shadow of a doubt , the hint of an inconsistency , a word , a look , a syllable , will destroy our ters . best - formed convictions ...
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