Lectures on the English Comic WritersWiley and Putnam, 1845 - 222 oldal |
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... pieces on these subjects not hitherto edited , I at first conceived it advisable to transfer the ' Lecture on Hogarth ' to this latter work , where , pos- sibly , in some points of view , it might appear better placed ; but , on ...
... pieces on these subjects not hitherto edited , I at first conceived it advisable to transfer the ' Lecture on Hogarth ' to this latter work , where , pos- sibly , in some points of view , it might appear better placed ; but , on ...
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... piece of wit I know of , is in the lines of Pope on the Lord Mayor's show- " Now night descending , the proud scene is o'er ; But lives in Settle's numbers one day more . " This is certainly as mortifying an inversion of the idea of ...
... piece of wit I know of , is in the lines of Pope on the Lord Mayor's show- " Now night descending , the proud scene is o'er ; But lives in Settle's numbers one day more . " This is certainly as mortifying an inversion of the idea of ...
18. oldal
... piece of wit instead of an act of the judgment or understanding , and Euclid's Elements a col lection of epigrams . On the contrary , it has appeared that the detection and exposure of difference , particularly where this implies nice ...
... piece of wit instead of an act of the judgment or understanding , and Euclid's Elements a col lection of epigrams . On the contrary , it has appeared that the detection and exposure of difference , particularly where this implies nice ...
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... piece of wood is doubly droll and far- cical . Punch is not merry in himself , but " he is the cause of heartfelt mirth in other men . " The wires and pulleys that govern his motions are conductors to carry off the spleen , and all ...
... piece of wood is doubly droll and far- cical . Punch is not merry in himself , but " he is the cause of heartfelt mirth in other men . " The wires and pulleys that govern his motions are conductors to carry off the spleen , and all ...
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... pieces , the ' Bourgeois Gentilhomme , Monsieur Pourceaugnac , George ' Dandin , ' ( or ' Barnaby Brittle , ' ) & c . are of the same descrip- tion - gratuitous assumptions of character , and fanciful and out- rageous caricatures of ...
... pieces , the ' Bourgeois Gentilhomme , Monsieur Pourceaugnac , George ' Dandin , ' ( or ' Barnaby Brittle , ' ) & c . are of the same descrip- tion - gratuitous assumptions of character , and fanciful and out- rageous caricatures of ...
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