Lectures on the English Comic WritersDoubleday, 1960 - 239 oldal |
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26. oldal
... idea of poetical immortality as could be thought of ; it fixes the maxi- mum of littleness and insignificance : but ... ideas that seem the same , or where the secret contradiction is not sufficiently suspected , and is of a ludicrous ...
... idea of poetical immortality as could be thought of ; it fixes the maxi- mum of littleness and insignificance : but ... ideas that seem the same , or where the secret contradiction is not sufficiently suspected , and is of a ludicrous ...
72. oldal
... idea by another more striking or more beautiful : the object of these writers was to match any one idea with any other idea , for better for worse , as we say , and whether any thing was gained by the change of condition or not . The ...
... idea by another more striking or more beautiful : the object of these writers was to match any one idea with any other idea , for better for worse , as we say , and whether any thing was gained by the change of condition or not . The ...
177. oldal
... idea of perfection in common behaviour , which is quite as romantic and impracticable as any other idea of the sort : and the consequence has naturally been , that she makes her heroines commit the greatest improprieties and absurdities ...
... idea of perfection in common behaviour , which is quite as romantic and impracticable as any other idea of the sort : and the consequence has naturally been , that she makes her heroines commit the greatest improprieties and absurdities ...
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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