Lectures on the English Comic WritersDoubleday, 1960 - 239 oldal |
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12. oldal
... serious concern at defiance . To understand or define the ludicrous , we must first know what the serious is . Now the serious is the habitual stress which the mind lays upon the expectation of a given order of events , following one ...
... serious concern at defiance . To understand or define the ludicrous , we must first know what the serious is . Now the serious is the habitual stress which the mind lays upon the expectation of a given order of events , following one ...
20. oldal
... serious and marvellous stories in that work , which have been so much admired and so greedily read , appear to me monstrous and abortive fictions , like disjointed dreams , dictated by a pre- ternatural dread of arbitrary and despotic ...
... serious and marvellous stories in that work , which have been so much admired and so greedily read , appear to me monstrous and abortive fictions , like disjointed dreams , dictated by a pre- ternatural dread of arbitrary and despotic ...
22. oldal
... serious seriously , it ceases to be wit , and passes into a different form . Wit is , in fact , the eloquence of indifference , or an ingenious and striking exposi- tion of those evanescent and glancing impressions of objects which ...
... serious seriously , it ceases to be wit , and passes into a different form . Wit is , in fact , the eloquence of indifference , or an ingenious and striking exposi- tion of those evanescent and glancing impressions of objects which ...
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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