Lectures on the English Comic WritersWiley and Putnam, 1845 - 222 oldal |
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8. oldal
... original bias to any extravagance or folly , the natural improbability , as it were , increasing every time with the multiplication of chances for a 1 return to common sense , and in the end mounting 8 [ LECTURE I. ON WIT AND HUMOUR .
... original bias to any extravagance or folly , the natural improbability , as it were , increasing every time with the multiplication of chances for a 1 return to common sense , and in the end mounting 8 [ LECTURE I. ON WIT AND HUMOUR .
24. oldal
... originals . Without this , they would be good for nothing ; for the immediate contrast would be wanting , and with this they are sure to tell . The best parodies are , accordingly , the best and most striking things reversed . Witness ...
... originals . Without this , they would be good for nothing ; for the immediate contrast would be wanting , and with this they are sure to tell . The best parodies are , accordingly , the best and most striking things reversed . Witness ...
30. oldal
... original 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 ...
... original 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 ...
42. oldal
... original thinking in what he plunders without scruple , than Ben Jonson often did in his most studied passages , forced from the sweat and labour of his brain . His style is as dry , as literal , and meagre , as Shakspeare's is ...
... original thinking in what he plunders without scruple , than Ben Jonson often did in his most studied passages , forced from the sweat and labour of his brain . His style is as dry , as literal , and meagre , as Shakspeare's is ...
54. oldal
... original of the ' Inconstant , ' are superior in style and execution to anything of Ben Jonson's . They are , indeed , some of the best comedies on the stage ; and one proof that they are so is , that they still hold possession of it ...
... original of the ' Inconstant , ' are superior in style and execution to anything of Ben Jonson's . They are , indeed , some of the best comedies on the stage ; and one proof that they are so is , that they still hold possession of it ...
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