Lectures on the English Comic WritersWiley and Putnam, 1845 - 222 oldal |
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8. oldal
... excellence . The deep feeling of character strengthens the sense of the ludi- crous . Keeping in comic character is consistency in absurdity ; a determined and laudable attachment to the incongruous and singular . The regularity ...
... excellence . The deep feeling of character strengthens the sense of the ludi- crous . Keeping in comic character is consistency in absurdity ; a determined and laudable attachment to the incongruous and singular . The regularity ...
33. oldal
... 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 in the imagination , they tell for their whole amount , they measure from the ground ...
... 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 in the imagination , they tell for their whole amount , they measure from the ground ...
65. oldal
... excellence ; that is , from qualities of mind appealing to and absorbing the imagina- tion , and which , therefore , ought to be represented in poetical language by some other obvious and palpable image , exhibiting the same kind or ...
... excellence ; that is , from qualities of mind appealing to and absorbing the imagina- tion , and which , therefore , ought to be represented in poetical language by some other obvious and palpable image , exhibiting the same kind or ...
108. oldal
... excellence " according to an exact scale " of Aris- totle , or fall out with a work that was good for anything , because " not one of the angles at the four corners was a right one . " was , in a word , the first author who was not a ...
... excellence " according to an exact scale " of Aris- totle , or fall out with a work that was good for anything , because " not one of the angles at the four corners was a right one . " was , in a word , the first author who was not a ...
126. oldal
... excellence , both as to degree and kind , in these several writers . I shall begin with the history of the renowned ' Don Quixote de la Mancha , ' who presents something more stately , more ro- mantic , and at the same time more real to ...
... excellence , both as to degree and kind , in these several writers . I shall begin with the history of the renowned ' Don Quixote de la Mancha , ' who presents something more stately , more ro- mantic , and at the same time more real to ...
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absurdity admirable affectation amusing appearance beauty Ben Jonson Brass Caleb Williams character circumstances comedy COMIC WRITERS common Congreve Conscious Lovers delightful Dick Don Quixote double entendre dramatic dress elegance equally excellence extravagance eyes face fancy farce feeling folly genius Gil Blas give grace heart Hogarth Hudibras human nature idea imagination imitation insipid instance interest invention Johnson kind Lady laugh look Lord lover ludicrous Malaprop manners Millamant mind mistress moral novel object original painted passion person piece play pleasure plot poet poetry pretensions reason refinement ridiculous satire scene School for Scandal seems sense sentiment serious Shakspeare sion Sir Andrew Ague-cheek sort Spectator spirit stage Stoops to Conquer story style Tartuffe Tatler thee things thought tion Tom Jones truth turn vice Volpone vulgar whole wife WILLIAM HAZLITT words Wycherley young
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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.