Lectures on the English Comic WritersWiley and Putnam, 1845 - 222 oldal |
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5. oldal
... equally an object of ridicule . One rich source of the ludicrous is distress with which we cannot sympathise from its absurdity or insignificance . Women laugh at their lovers . We laugh at a damned author , in spite of our We teeth ...
... equally an object of ridicule . One rich source of the ludicrous is distress with which we cannot sympathise from its absurdity or insignificance . Women laugh at their lovers . We laugh at a damned author , in spite of our We teeth ...
8. oldal
... equally amusing . Lying is a spe- cies of wit and humour . To lay anything to a person's charge from which he is perfectly free , shows spirit and invention ; and the more incredible the effrontery , the greater is the joke . There is ...
... equally amusing . Lying is a spe- cies of wit and humour . To lay anything to a person's charge from which he is perfectly free , shows spirit and invention ; and the more incredible the effrontery , the greater is the joke . There is ...
9. oldal
... equally instructive and delightful ; and after the pair I have just alluded to , My Uncle Toby's is one of the best and gentlest that " ever lifted leg ! " The inconveniences , odd accidents , falls , and bruises to which they expose ...
... equally instructive and delightful ; and after the pair I have just alluded to , My Uncle Toby's is one of the best and gentlest that " ever lifted leg ! " The inconveniences , odd accidents , falls , and bruises to which they expose ...
45. oldal
... equally weighed down and clogged his perception of the beautiful or the ridiculous . He had a keen sense of what was true and false , but not of the dif- ference between the agreeable and the disagreeable ; or if he had , it was by his ...
... equally weighed down and clogged his perception of the beautiful or the ridiculous . He had a keen sense of what was true and false , but not of the dif- ference between the agreeable and the disagreeable ; or if he had , it was by his ...
48. oldal
... equally without a sense of pleasure , taste , or elegance . Madame Haughty , Madame Centaur , and Ma- dame Mavis , form the College , as it is here pedantically called . They are a sort of candidates for being upon the town , but can ...
... equally without a sense of pleasure , taste , or elegance . Madame Haughty , Madame Centaur , and Ma- dame Mavis , form the College , as it is here pedantically called . They are a sort of candidates for being upon the town , but can ...
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37. oldal - tis certain ; very sure, very sure : death, as the Psalmist saith, is certain to all ; all shall die.
24. oldal - The hedge-sparrow fed the cuckoo so long, That it had its head bit off by its young.
72. oldal - ... lover? Prithee why so pale? Will, when looking well can't move her, Looking ill prevail? Prithee why so pale? Why so dull and mute, young sinner? Prithee why so mute? Will, when speaking well can't win her, Saying nothing do't?
69. oldal - tis my outward soul, Viceroy to that, which then to heaven being gone, Will leave this to control And keep these limbs, her provinces, from dissolution.
68. oldal - tis some bravery. That since you would save none of me, I bury some of you. The Blossom Little thinkst thou, poor flower. Whom I have watched six or seven days, And seen thy birth, and seen what every hour Gave to thy growth, thee to this height to raise, And now dost laugh and triumph on this bough, Little thinkst thou That it will freeze anon, and that I shall Tomorrow find thee fall'n, or not at all...
14. oldal - The sun had long since, in the lap Of Thetis, taken out his nap, And, like a lobster boil'd, the morn From black to red began to turn...
18. oldal - Wit lying most in the assemblage of Ideas, and putting those together with quickness and variety, wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant Pictures, and agreeable Visions in the fancy...
62. oldal - Do we succeed? Is our day come? and holds it? Face. The evening will set red upon you, sir; You have colour for it, crimson : the red ferment Has done, his office; three hours hence prepare you To see projection. Mam. Pertinax, my Surly, Again I say to thee aloud, Be rich. This day thou shalt have ingots; and to-morrow Give lords th
77. oldal - Drinks up the sea, and when he 's done. The Moon and Stars drink up the Sun: They drink and dance by their own light, They drink and revel all the night: Nothing in Nature 's sober found, But an eternal health goes round.
94. oldal - Beauty the lover's gift! Lord, what is a lover, that it can give? Why, one makes lovers as fast as one pleases, and they live as long as one pleases, and they die as soon as one pleases; and then, if one pleases, one makes more.