Lectures on the English Comic WritersWiley and Putnam, 1845 - 222 oldal |
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5. oldal
... never saw him before . Any one dressed in the height of the fashion , or quite out of it , is equally an object of ridicule . One rich source of the ludicrous is distress with which we cannot sympathise from its absurdity or ...
... never saw him before . Any one dressed in the height of the fashion , or quite out of it , is equally an object of ridicule . One rich source of the ludicrous is distress with which we cannot sympathise from its absurdity or ...
14. oldal
... with the following stanzas in Spenser , treating of the same subject : — " By this the Northern Wagoner had set His seven - fold team behind the steadfast star , That was in ocean waves , yet never wet , 14 [ LECTURE I. ON WIT AND HUMOUR .
... with the following stanzas in Spenser , treating of the same subject : — " By this the Northern Wagoner had set His seven - fold team behind the steadfast star , That was in ocean waves , yet never wet , 14 [ LECTURE I. ON WIT AND HUMOUR .
31. oldal
... never read his works , the name of Rabelais is a cordial to the spirits , and the mention of it cannot consist with gravity or spleen ! LECTURE II . On Shakspeare and Ben Jonson . DR LECTURE 1. ] 31 ON WIT AND HUMOUR .
... never read his works , the name of Rabelais is a cordial to the spirits , and the mention of it cannot consist with gravity or spleen ! LECTURE II . On Shakspeare and Ben Jonson . DR LECTURE 1. ] 31 ON WIT AND HUMOUR .
35. oldal
... never broken . Who would quarrel with Wart , or Feeble , or Mouldy , or Bull - calf , or even with Pistol , Nym , or Bardolph ? None but a hypocrite . The severe censurers of the morals of imaginary characters can generally find a hole ...
... never broken . Who would quarrel with Wart , or Feeble , or Mouldy , or Bull - calf , or even with Pistol , Nym , or Bardolph ? None but a hypocrite . The severe censurers of the morals of imaginary characters can generally find a hole ...
37. oldal
... never preached . We see the frail condition of human life , and the weakness of the human understanding in Shallow's reflections on it ; who , while the past is sliding from beneath his feet , still clings to the pre- The meanest ...
... never preached . We see the frail condition of human life , and the weakness of the human understanding in Shallow's reflections on it ; who , while the past is sliding from beneath his feet , still clings to the pre- The meanest ...
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