Lectures on the English Comic WritersWiley and Putnam, 1845 - 222 oldal |
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14. oldal
... language of hyperbole , it is only to betray into derision by a fa- tal comparison , as in the mock - heroic ; or if it treats of serious passion , it must do it so as to lower the tone of intense and high- wrought sentiment by the ...
... language of hyperbole , it is only to betray into derision by a fa- tal comparison , as in the mock - heroic ; or if it treats of serious passion , it must do it so as to lower the tone of intense and high- wrought sentiment by the ...
19. oldal
... language , the mis- chievous insinuation which the person who has the wit to take advantage of it wishes to convey . So when the disaffected French wits applied to the new order of the Fleur du lys the double entendre of Compagnons d ...
... language , the mis- chievous insinuation which the person who has the wit to take advantage of it wishes to convey . So when the disaffected French wits applied to the new order of the Fleur du lys the double entendre of Compagnons d ...
21. oldal
... language , something of the same 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 ...
... language , something of the same 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 ...
27. oldal
... language . It is , in short , a manner of speaking out of the simple and plain way ( such as reason teacheth and knoweth things by , ) which by a pretty surprising uncouthness in conceit or expression doth affect and amuse the fancy ...
... language . It is , in short , a manner of speaking out of the simple and plain way ( such as reason teacheth and knoweth things by , ) which by a pretty surprising uncouthness in conceit or expression doth affect and amuse the fancy ...
57. oldal
... language . The complaint so often made , and here repeated , is not of the want of power in these men , but of the waste of it ; not of the absence of genius , but the abuse of it . They had ( many of them ) great talents committed to ...
... language . The complaint so often made , and here repeated , is not of the want of power in these men , but of the waste of it ; not of the absence of genius , but the abuse of it . They had ( many of them ) great talents committed to ...
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