Lectures on the English Comic WritersWiley and Putnam, 1845 - 222 oldal |
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26. oldal
... painted , patched - up figures , no bigger than one's thumb , strut , squeak , and gibber , sing , dance , chatter , scold , knock one another about the head , give themselves airs of importance , and " imitate humanity most abominably ...
... painted , patched - up figures , no bigger than one's thumb , strut , squeak , and gibber , sing , dance , chatter , scold , knock one another about the head , give themselves airs of importance , and " imitate humanity most abominably ...
46. oldal
... painted not so much human nature as temporary manners ; not the characters of men , but their humours ; that is to say , peculi- arities of phrase , modes of dress , gesture , & c . , which becoming obselete , and being in themselves ...
... painted not so much human nature as temporary manners ; not the characters of men , but their humours ; that is to say , peculi- arities of phrase , modes of dress , gesture , & c . , which becoming obselete , and being in themselves ...
55. oldal
... painted the forms of matter , nor represented the operations of intellect . " life ; The whole of the account is well worth reading ; it was a subject for which Dr. Johnson's powers both of thought and ex- • pression were better fitted ...
... painted the forms of matter , nor represented the operations of intellect . " life ; The whole of the account is well worth reading ; it was a subject for which Dr. Johnson's powers both of thought and ex- • pression were better fitted ...
85. oldal
... painted them differently ; in colours which " nature's own sweet and cunning hand laid on , " with health , with innocence , with gaiety , " wild wit , invention ever new ; " with pure red and white , like the wilding's blossoms ; with ...
... painted them differently ; in colours which " nature's own sweet and cunning hand laid on , " with health , with innocence , with gaiety , " wild wit , invention ever new ; " with pure red and white , like the wilding's blossoms ; with ...
108. oldal
... a mere book - case , * Why Pope should say in reference to him , " Or more wise Charron , " is not easy to determine . painted and lettered on the outside with the names of 108 [ LECTURE V. ON THE PERIODICAL ESSAYISTS .
... a mere book - case , * Why Pope should say in reference to him , " Or more wise Charron , " is not easy to determine . painted and lettered on the outside with the names of 108 [ LECTURE V. ON THE PERIODICAL ESSAYISTS .
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