Lectures on the English Comic WritersWiley and Putnam, 1845 - 222 oldal |
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... whole of my father's writings on Art , and Artists , together with some pieces on these subjects not hitherto edited , I at first conceived it advisable to transfer the ' Lecture on Hogarth ' to this latter work , where , pos- sibly ...
... whole of my father's writings on Art , and Artists , together with some pieces on these subjects not hitherto edited , I at first conceived it advisable to transfer the ' Lecture on Hogarth ' to this latter work , where , pos- sibly ...
2. oldal
... whole is a trick at bottom . The alternation of tears and laughter , in this little episode in common life , depends almost entirely on the greater or less de- of interest attached to the different changes of appearance . gree The mere ...
... whole is a trick at bottom . The alternation of tears and laughter , in this little episode in common life , depends almost entirely on the greater or less de- of interest attached to the different changes of appearance . gree The mere ...
7. oldal
... whole place into an uproar of laugh- ter . People at the point of death often say smart things . Sir Thomas More jested with his executioner : Rabelais and Wycher- ley both died with a bon - mot in their mouths . Misunderstandings ...
... whole place into an uproar of laugh- ter . People at the point of death often say smart things . Sir Thomas More jested with his executioner : Rabelais and Wycher- ley both died with a bon - mot in their mouths . Misunderstandings ...
22. oldal
... whole of the character of Falstaff , and is , in truth , the principle on which it is founded . It is an irony directed against oneself . Wit is , in fact , a voluntary act of the mind , or exercise of the invention , showing the absurd ...
... whole of the character of Falstaff , and is , in truth , the principle on which it is founded . It is an irony directed against oneself . Wit is , in fact , a voluntary act of the mind , or exercise of the invention , showing the absurd ...
23. oldal
... whole charm , and puts an end to our admiration of the sublime or beautiful . Reading the finest passage in Milton's ' Paradise Lost ' in a false tone , will make it seem insipid and absurd . The cavilling at , or in- vidiously pointing ...
... whole charm , and puts an end to our admiration of the sublime or beautiful . Reading the finest passage in Milton's ' Paradise Lost ' in a false tone , will make it seem insipid and absurd . The cavilling at , or in- vidiously pointing ...
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absurdity admiration affectation amusing appearance artificial beauty Beggar's Opera Ben Jonson better blank verse Boccaccio character Chaucer circumstances comedy comic common critics delight describes Don Quixote double entendre dramatic elegance equal excellence face fancy feeling flowers folly genius Gil Blas give grace heart Hogarth Hudibras human humour idea imagination imitation instance interest kind Lady language laugh light lively look Lord Byron lover ludicrous Lycidas Lyrical Ballads manners Milton mind moral Muse nature never objects painted passion person picture play pleasure poem poet poetical poetry Pope prose reader refinement ridiculous satire scene School for Scandal seems sense sentiment Shakspeare Shakspeare's sort soul Spenser spirit story style sweet Tartuffe Tatler thee things thou thought tion Tom Jones truth turn verse vice whole wild words Wordsworth writer