Lectures on the English Comic WritersWiley and Putnam, 1845 - 222 oldal |
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24. oldal
... tell home . The missing a single time is fatal , and undoes the spell . We see how difficult it is to sustain a continued flight of im- pressive sentiment : how easy it must be then to travestie or burlesque it , to flounder into ...
... tell home . The missing a single time is fatal , and undoes the spell . We see how difficult it is to sustain a continued flight of im- pressive sentiment : how easy it must be then to travestie or burlesque it , to flounder into ...
25. oldal
... telling home truths in the most unexpected manner . In this sense Æsop was the greatest wit and moralist that ever lived . Ape and slave , he looked askance at human nature , and beheld its weaknesses and errors transferred to another ...
... telling home truths in the most unexpected manner . In this sense Æsop was the greatest wit and moralist that ever lived . Ape and slave , he looked askance at human nature , and beheld its weaknesses and errors transferred to another ...
27. oldal
... tell how . Its ways are unaccountable and inexpli- cable , being answerable to the numberless rovings of fancy and windings of language . It is , in short , a manner of speaking out of the simple and plain way ( such as reason teacheth ...
... tell how . Its ways are unaccountable and inexpli- cable , being answerable to the numberless rovings of fancy and windings of language . It is , in short , a manner of speaking out of the simple and plain way ( such as reason teacheth ...
33. oldal
... tell for more or less , are good , bad , or indifferent , as they have more or less excellence of a kind common to them with others : but these stand alone by themselves ; they have nothing common - place in them ; they are a new power ...
... tell for more or less , are good , bad , or indifferent , as they have more or less excellence of a kind common to them with others : but these stand alone by themselves ; they have nothing common - place in them ; they are a new power ...
48. oldal
... tell thee , Dauphine ? Why , all their actions are governed by crude opinion , without reason or cause ; they know not why they do anything ; but , as they are informed , believe , judge , praise , condemn , love , hate , and in ...
... tell thee , Dauphine ? Why , all their actions are governed by crude opinion , without reason or cause ; they know not why they do anything ; but , as they are informed , believe , judge , praise , condemn , love , hate , and in ...
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