Lectures on the English Comic WritersWiley and Putnam, 1845 - 222 oldal |
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17. oldal
... scene is o'er ; But lives in Settle's numbers one day more . " This is certainly as mortifying an inversion of the idea of poeti- cal immortality as could be thought of : it fixes the maximum of littleness and insignificance ; but it is ...
... scene is o'er ; But lives in Settle's numbers one day more . " This is certainly as mortifying an inversion of the idea of poeti- cal immortality as could be thought of : it fixes the maximum of littleness and insignificance ; but it is ...
34. oldal
... scenes or whole characters in Shakspeare equal in wit and drollery to anything upon record . Falstaff alone is an instance which , if I would , I could not get over . " He is the leviathan of all the creatures of the author's comic ...
... scenes or whole characters in Shakspeare equal in wit and drollery to anything upon record . Falstaff alone is an instance which , if I would , I could not get over . " He is the leviathan of all the creatures of the author's comic ...
35. oldal
... scenes in both parts of Henry IV . Nothing can go much lower in intellect or morals than many of the charac- ters . Here are knaves and fools in abundance , of the meanest order , and stripped stark - naked . covers a multitude of sins ...
... scenes in both parts of Henry IV . Nothing can go much lower in intellect or morals than many of the charac- ters . Here are knaves and fools in abundance , of the meanest order , and stripped stark - naked . covers a multitude of sins ...
39. oldal
... scenes of Shakspeare's come- dies are mostly laid in the country , or are transferable there at pleasure . The genteel comedy exists only in towns , and crowds of borrowed characters , who copy others as the satirist copies them , and ...
... scenes of Shakspeare's come- dies are mostly laid in the country , or are transferable there at pleasure . The genteel comedy exists only in towns , and crowds of borrowed characters , who copy others as the satirist copies them , and ...
47. oldal
... scene between Sir Amorous La Fool and Sir John Daw , in which they are frightened , by a feigned report of each other's courage , into a submission to all sorts of indigni- ties , which they construe into flattering civilities , is the ...
... scene between Sir Amorous La Fool and Sir John Daw , in which they are frightened , by a feigned report of each other's courage , into a submission to all sorts of indigni- ties , which they construe into flattering civilities , is the ...
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