Lectures on the English Comic WritersWiley and Putnam, 1845 - 222 oldal |
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30. oldal
... verse . The Critique de l'Ecole des Femmes , ' the dialogue of which is prose , is written in a very different style . Among other things , this little piece contains an exquisite , and almost unanswerable defence of the superiority of ...
... verse . The Critique de l'Ecole des Femmes , ' the dialogue of which is prose , is written in a very different style . Among other things , this little piece contains an exquisite , and almost unanswerable defence of the superiority of ...
35. oldal
... verse over , that we may get upon safe ground again , and recover our good opinion of the author ! A striking and lamentable instance of this may be found ( by any one who chooses ) in the high - flown speeches in Sir Richard Steele's ...
... verse over , that we may get upon safe ground again , and recover our good opinion of the author ! A striking and lamentable instance of this may be found ( by any one who chooses ) in the high - flown speeches in Sir Richard Steele's ...
55. oldal
... verses , and very often such verses as stood the trial of the finger better than of the ear ; for the modulation was so imperfect , that they were only found to be verses by counting the syllables . " If the father of criticism has ...
... verses , and very often such verses as stood the trial of the finger better than of the ear ; for the modulation was so imperfect , that they were only found to be verses by counting the syllables . " If the father of criticism has ...
56. oldal
... verses read like riddles or an allegory . They neither belong to the class of lively or severe poetry . They have not the force of the one , nor the gaiety of the other ; but are an ill - assorted , unprofitable union of the two ...
... verses read like riddles or an allegory . They neither belong to the class of lively or severe poetry . They have not the force of the one , nor the gaiety of the other ; but are an ill - assorted , unprofitable union of the two ...
57. oldal
... verse . The imagination of the writers , instead of being conversant with the face of nature , or the secrets of the heart , was lost in the labyrinths of intellectual abstraction , or entangled in the technical quibbles and impertinent ...
... verse . The imagination of the writers , instead of being conversant with the face of nature , or the secrets of the heart , was lost in the labyrinths of intellectual abstraction , or entangled in the technical quibbles and impertinent ...
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