Lectures on the English Comic WritersWiley and Putnam, 1845 - 222 oldal |
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9. oldal
... sentiment , or from the principle of similitude and dissimilitude . The devotion to nonsense , and enthusiasm about trifles , is highly affecting as a moral lesson : it is one of the striking weaknesses and greatest happinesses of our ...
... sentiment , or from the principle of similitude and dissimilitude . The devotion to nonsense , and enthusiasm about trifles , is highly affecting as a moral lesson : it is one of the striking weaknesses and greatest happinesses of our ...
13. oldal
... sentiment , which still survives in all its fluttering grace and breathless palpitations on the stage . Humour is the describing the ludicrous as it is in itself ; wit is the exposing it , by comparing or contrasting it with something ...
... sentiment , which still survives in all its fluttering grace and breathless palpitations on the stage . Humour is the describing the ludicrous as it is in itself ; wit is the exposing it , by comparing or contrasting it with something ...
14. oldal
... sentiment by the introduction of burlesque and familiar circumstances . To give an instance or two . Butler , in his ' Hudibras , ' compares the change of night into day to the change of colour in a boiled lobster . " The sun had long ...
... sentiment by the introduction of burlesque and familiar circumstances . To give an instance or two . Butler , in his ' Hudibras , ' compares the change of night into day to the change of colour in a boiled lobster . " The sun had long ...
24. oldal
... sentiment : how easy it must be then to travestie or burlesque it , to flounder into nonsense , and be witty by playing the fool . It is a common mistake , however , to suppose that parodies degrade , or imply a stigma on the subject ...
... sentiment : how easy it must be then to travestie or burlesque it , to flounder into nonsense , and be witty by playing the fool . It is a common mistake , however , to suppose that parodies degrade , or imply a stigma on the subject ...
29. oldal
... sentiment , such as the exquisite account of the fable of the halcyon put into the mouth of Socrates , and the heroic eulogy on Bacchus , which is conceived in the highest strain of glowing panegyric . The two other authors I proposed ...
... sentiment , such as the exquisite account of the fable of the halcyon put into the mouth of Socrates , and the heroic eulogy on Bacchus , which is conceived in the highest strain of glowing panegyric . The two other authors I proposed ...
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