Lectures on the English Comic WritersDoubleday, 1960 - 239 oldal |
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... style of comedy ( which I think the best ) are undoubtedly Wycherley , Congreve , Van- brugh , and Farquhar . The dawn was in Etherege , as its latest close was in Sheridan . - It is hard to say which of these four is best , or in what ...
... style of comedy ( which I think the best ) are undoubtedly Wycherley , Congreve , Van- brugh , and Farquhar . The dawn was in Etherege , as its latest close was in Sheridan . - It is hard to say which of these four is best , or in what ...
143. oldal
... style , on the contrary , resembles rather the rumbling of mimic thunder at one of our theatres ; and the light he throws upon a subject is like the dazzling effect of phosphorus , or an ignis fatuus of words . There is a wide dif ...
... style , on the contrary , resembles rather the rumbling of mimic thunder at one of our theatres ; and the light he throws upon a subject is like the dazzling effect of phosphorus , or an ignis fatuus of words . There is a wide dif ...
144. oldal
... style pro- duces an apparent monotony of ideas . What is really striking and valuable , is lost in the vain ostentation and circumlocution of the expression ; for when we find the same pains and pomp of diction bestowed upon the most ...
... style pro- duces an apparent monotony of ideas . What is really striking and valuable , is lost in the vain ostentation and circumlocution of the expression ; for when we find the same pains and pomp of diction bestowed upon the most ...
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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