Lectures on the English Comic WritersDoubleday, 1960 - 239 oldal |
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83. oldal
... Excellent Brutus , " are all full of ingenious and high thoughts , impaired by a load of ornament and quaint disguises . The Chronicle , or list of his Mistresses , is the best of his original lighter pieces : but the best of his poems ...
... Excellent Brutus , " are all full of ingenious and high thoughts , impaired by a load of ornament and quaint disguises . The Chronicle , or list of his Mistresses , is the best of his original lighter pieces : but the best of his poems ...
159. oldal
... excellent , but have , upon the whole , been overrated . They derive their interest from their connexion with the main story . We are so pleased with that , that we are disposed to receive pleasure from every thing else . Compared , for ...
... excellent , but have , upon the whole , been overrated . They derive their interest from their connexion with the main story . We are so pleased with that , that we are disposed to receive pleasure from every thing else . Compared , for ...
215. oldal
... excellent comedies have been written , that there are none written at present . Comedy naturally wears itself out - destroys the very food on which it lives ; and by constantly and successfully ex- posing the follies and weaknesses of ...
... excellent comedies have been written , that there are none written at present . Comedy naturally wears itself out - destroys the very food on which it lives ; and by constantly and successfully ex- posing the follies and weaknesses of ...
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absurdity acter admirable affectation amusing appear archy and mehitabel beauty Ben Jonson BRASS character Charlotte Brontë colour comedy common Congreve delightful DICK Dolphin Masters Don Quixote dramatic dress elegance Epicene equally excellent extravagance eyes face fancy farce feeling folly Francis Turner Palgrave genius Gil Blas give grace heart Hogarth Honoré de Balzac Hudibras idea imagination imitation instance interest invention Johnson Lady laugh lively look Lord lover ludicrous Madam manners mind mistress moral never night novel object original painted passion person play pleasure poem poet poetry pretensions Rake's Progress reason refinement Richard Brinsley Sheridan ridiculous romantic satire scene School for Scandal seems sense sentiment serious Shakspeare shew sort Spectator spirit stage story style Tartuffe Tatler thee thing thou thought tion Tom Jones truth turn vice whole wife WILD words Wycherley