Lectures on the English Comic WritersWiley and Putnam, 1845 - 222 oldal |
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24. oldal
... poet now living . Lear and the Fool are the sublimest instance I know of pas- sion and wit united , or of imagination unfolding the most tre- mendous sufferings , and of burlesque on passion playing with it , aiding and relieving its ...
... poet now living . Lear and the Fool are the sublimest instance I know of pas- sion and wit united , or of imagination unfolding the most tre- mendous sufferings , and of burlesque on passion playing with it , aiding and relieving its ...
32. oldal
... poet as erroneous and unfounded , that I should say that he is the only tragic poet in the world in the highest sense , as being on a par with , and the same as Nature , in her greatest heights and depths 6 6 of action and suffering ...
... poet as erroneous and unfounded , that I should say that he is the only tragic poet in the world in the highest sense , as being on a par with , and the same as Nature , in her greatest heights and depths 6 6 of action and suffering ...
34. oldal
... poet greatly prevail over the mere wit and satire , and that we sympathise with his characters oftener than we laugh at them . His ridicule wants the sting of ill - nature . He had hardly such a thing as spleen in his composition . Fal ...
... poet greatly prevail over the mere wit and satire , and that we sympathise with his characters oftener than we laugh at them . His ridicule wants the sting of ill - nature . He had hardly such a thing as spleen in his composition . Fal ...
39. oldal
... poet's own fancy . The author lends occasion to his absurdity to show itself as much as he pleases , devises antics ... poetic comedy begins to vegetate and flourish , unpruned , idle , and fantastic . It is hard to " lay waste a country ...
... poet's own fancy . The author lends occasion to his absurdity to show itself as much as he pleases , devises antics ... poetic comedy begins to vegetate and flourish , unpruned , idle , and fantastic . It is hard to " lay waste a country ...
43. oldal
... poet , whose property they are . In reading the one , we are let into the minds of his characters , we see the play of their thoughts , how their humours flow and work : the author takes a range over nature , and has an eye to every ...
... poet , whose property they are . In reading the one , we are let into the minds of his characters , we see the play of their thoughts , how their humours flow and work : the author takes a range over nature , and has an eye to every ...
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