Lectures on the English Comic WritersDoubleday, 1960 - 239 oldal |
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27. oldal
... fancy . - Mere wit , as opposed to reason or argument , con- sists in striking out some casual and partial coincidence which has nothing to do , or at least implies no necessary connection with the nature of the things , which are ...
... fancy . - Mere wit , as opposed to reason or argument , con- sists in striking out some casual and partial coincidence which has nothing to do , or at least implies no necessary connection with the nature of the things , which are ...
51. oldal
... fancy , " and furnishing matter for innocent mirth , " are , therefore , the chief object of this and other characters like it , rather than reforming the moral sense , or indulging our personal spleen . But Tattle and Sparkish , who ...
... fancy , " and furnishing matter for innocent mirth , " are , therefore , the chief object of this and other characters like it , rather than reforming the moral sense , or indulging our personal spleen . But Tattle and Sparkish , who ...
52. oldal
... fancy and the world of fashion . The refinements of romantic passion arise out of the imagination brooding over " airy nothing , " or over a favourite object , where " love's golden shaft hath killed the flock of all affections else ...
... fancy and the world of fashion . The refinements of romantic passion arise out of the imagination brooding over " airy nothing , " or over a favourite object , where " love's golden shaft hath killed the flock of all affections else ...
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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