Lectures on the English Comic WritersDoubleday, 1960 - 239 oldal |
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159. oldal
... novel , Gusman D'Alfarache , nearly of the same age as Don Quixote , and of great genius , though it can hardly be ranked as a novel or a work of imagi- nation . It is a series of strange , unconnected adventures , rather drily told ...
... novel , Gusman D'Alfarache , nearly of the same age as Don Quixote , and of great genius , though it can hardly be ranked as a novel or a work of imagi- nation . It is a series of strange , unconnected adventures , rather drily told ...
167. oldal
... novel that ever was written ; that which gives the most pleasure with the least effort to the reader . It is quite as amus- ing as going the journey could have been ; and we have just as good an idea of what happened on the road , as if ...
... novel that ever was written ; that which gives the most pleasure with the least effort to the reader . It is quite as amus- ing as going the journey could have been ; and we have just as good an idea of what happened on the road , as if ...
176. oldal
... novel , because it is the shortest ; that is , it has all the liveliness in the sketches of character , and ... novels , than that of immediate observation : her characters , whether of re- finement or vulgarity , are equally superficial ...
... novel , because it is the shortest ; that is , it has all the liveliness in the sketches of character , and ... novels , than that of immediate observation : her characters , whether of re- finement or vulgarity , are equally superficial ...
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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