Lectures on the English Comic WritersWiley and Putnam, 1845 - 222 oldal |
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37. oldal
... reader laughs ( as well he may ) in reading the passage , but he lays down the book to think . The wit , however diverting , is social and humane . But this is not the distinguishing characteristic of wit , which is generally LECTURE II ...
... reader laughs ( as well he may ) in reading the passage , but he lays down the book to think . The wit , however diverting , is social and humane . But this is not the distinguishing characteristic of wit , which is generally LECTURE II ...
43. oldal
... reader . Schlegel observes , that whereas Shakspeare gives the springs of human nature , which are always the same , or sufficiently so to be in- teresting and intelligible ; Jonson chiefly gives the humours of men , as connected with ...
... reader . Schlegel observes , that whereas Shakspeare gives the springs of human nature , which are always the same , or sufficiently so to be in- teresting and intelligible ; Jonson chiefly gives the humours of men , as connected with ...
45. oldal
... reader that he knows . Aliquando sufflaminandus erat , is as true of him as it was of Shakspeare , but in a quite different sense . He is doggedly bent upon fatiguing you with a favourite idea ; whereas Shakspeare overpowers and ...
... reader that he knows . Aliquando sufflaminandus erat , is as true of him as it was of Shakspeare , but in a quite different sense . He is doggedly bent upon fatiguing you with a favourite idea ; whereas Shakspeare overpowers and ...
56. oldal
... reader to disco- ver the meaning , and if there was the most remote circum- stance , however trifling or vague , for the pretended comparison to hinge upon . They brought ideas together not the most , but the least like ; and of which ...
... reader to disco- ver the meaning , and if there was the most remote circum- stance , however trifling or vague , for the pretended comparison to hinge upon . They brought ideas together not the most , but the least like ; and of which ...
59. oldal
... re- deem the nauseousness of his descriptions , and compromise the imagination of his readers more than they assist their reason , The satirist does not write with the same authority as LECTURE III . ] 59 ON COWLEY , BUTLER , ETC.
... re- deem the nauseousness of his descriptions , and compromise the imagination of his readers more than they assist their reason , The satirist does not write with the same authority as LECTURE III . ] 59 ON COWLEY , BUTLER , ETC.
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