Lectures on the English Comic WritersWiley and Putnam, 1845 - 222 oldal |
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... means one thing , and another is aiming at something else , are another great source of comic humour , on the same principle of ambi- guity and contrast . There is a high - wrought instance of this in the dialogue be- tween Aimwell and ...
... means one thing , and another is aiming at something else , are another great source of comic humour , on the same principle of ambi- guity and contrast . There is a high - wrought instance of this in the dialogue be- tween Aimwell and ...
13. oldal
... mean more light and worthless ; or to divert our admiration or wean our affections from that which is lofty and impressive , instead of producing a more intense admiration and exalted passion , as poetry does . Wit may sometimes , in ...
... mean more light and worthless ; or to divert our admiration or wean our affections from that which is lofty and impressive , instead of producing a more intense admiration and exalted passion , as poetry does . Wit may sometimes , in ...
20. oldal
... means of government are the guinea and the gallows . " There can scarcely , it must be confessed , be a more effectual mode of political conversion than one of these applied to a man's friends , and the other to himself . The fine ...
... means of government are the guinea and the gallows . " There can scarcely , it must be confessed , be a more effectual mode of political conversion than one of these applied to a man's friends , and the other to himself . The fine ...
22. oldal
... means the case . Swift would hardly have allowed of such a strait - laced theory , to make havoc with his darling conundrums ; though there is no one whose serious wit is more that of things , as opposed to a mere play either of words ...
... means the case . Swift would hardly have allowed of such a strait - laced theory , to make havoc with his darling conundrums ; though there is no one whose serious wit is more that of things , as opposed to a mere play either of words ...
25. oldal
... means of some far - fetched conceit or quaint imagery . The mat- ter is sense , but the form is wit . Thus the lines in Pope- " Tis with our judgments as our watches , none Go just alike ; yet each believes his own- " are witty rather ...
... means of some far - fetched conceit or quaint imagery . The mat- ter is sense , but the form is wit . Thus the lines in Pope- " Tis with our judgments as our watches , none Go just alike ; yet each believes his own- " are witty rather ...
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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.