Lectures on the English Comic WritersDoubleday, 1960 - 239 oldal |
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28. oldal
... truth ( if truth it were ) by a fortuitous concourse of letters of the alpha- bet , jumping in " a foregone conclusion , " but there was no proof of the thing , unless it was self - evident . And , indeed , this may be considered as the ...
... truth ( if truth it were ) by a fortuitous concourse of letters of the alpha- bet , jumping in " a foregone conclusion , " but there was no proof of the thing , unless it was self - evident . And , indeed , this may be considered as the ...
29. oldal
... truth that there is in our favourite prejudices . - To shew how nearly allied wit is thought to be to truth , it is not unusual to say of any person- " Such a one is a man of sense , for though he said nothing , he laughed in the right ...
... truth that there is in our favourite prejudices . - To shew how nearly allied wit is thought to be to truth , it is not unusual to say of any person- " Such a one is a man of sense , for though he said nothing , he laughed in the right ...
34. oldal
... truth they convey is a mere dry observation on human life , without elevation or enthusiasm , and the illustration of it is of that quaint and familiar kind that is merely curious and fanciful . Cowley is an instance of the same kind in ...
... truth they convey is a mere dry observation on human life , without elevation or enthusiasm , and the illustration of it is of that quaint and familiar kind that is merely curious and fanciful . Cowley is an instance of the same kind in ...
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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