Lectures on the English Comic WritersDoubleday, 1960 - 239 oldal |
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19. oldal
... young gentleman whom he is sent for to shave , his preparations and his professions of speed , his taking out an astrolabe to measure the height of the sun while his razors are getting ready , his dancing the dance of Zimri and singing ...
... young gentleman whom he is sent for to shave , his preparations and his professions of speed , his taking out an astrolabe to measure the height of the sun while his razors are getting ready , his dancing the dance of Zimri and singing ...
64. oldal
... Young giants ; as our philosophers have done , The ancient patriarchs , afore the flood , But taking , once a week , on a knife's point , The quantity of a grain of mustard of it ; Become stout Marses , and beget young Cupids . * You ...
... Young giants ; as our philosophers have done , The ancient patriarchs , afore the flood , But taking , once a week , on a knife's point , The quantity of a grain of mustard of it ; Become stout Marses , and beget young Cupids . * You ...
137. oldal
... young gentleman at the West - end of the town . The departures and arrivals of widows with handsome jointures , either to bury their grief in the country , or to procure a second husband in town , are punctually recorded in his pages ...
... young gentleman at the West - end of the town . The departures and arrivals of widows with handsome jointures , either to bury their grief in the country , or to procure a second husband in town , are punctually recorded in his pages ...
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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