Lectures on the English Comic WritersJ.M. Dent & Sons, Limited, 1930 - 340 oldal |
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... truth ( if truth it were ) by a fortuitous concourse of letters of the alphabet , 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 alphabet , 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 ...
25. oldal
... truth , and the fund of invention in exhibiting it in eternal forms , palpable and intelligible , and delightful to children and grown persons , and to all ages and nations , are almost miraculous . The invention of a fable is to me the ...
... truth , and the fund of invention in exhibiting it in eternal forms , palpable and intelligible , and delightful to children and grown persons , and to all ages and nations , are almost miraculous . The invention of a fable is to me the ...
157. oldal
... truth of which every one must feel , but from vague topics and general rules , the truth of which is the very thing to be proved in detail , has lost that fine ' vantage ground which the stage lends to virtue ; takes away from it its ...
... truth of which every one must feel , but from vague topics and general rules , the truth of which is the very thing to be proved in detail , has lost that fine ' vantage ground which the stage lends to virtue ; takes away from it its ...
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absurdity admiration affectation amusing appearance beauty Beggar's Opera Ben Jonson better Brentford Caleb Williams character circumstances comedy comic common delight Don Quixote English Epicene equally extravagance face Falstaff fancy favourite feeling folly genius gentleman Gil Blas give grace hand heart hero Hogarth Hudibras human humour idea imagination impression insipid instance interest Jem Belcher lady laugh live look Lord Lord Byron lover ludicrous main-chance manners means Millamant mind mistress moral nature never object opinion ourselves pain passion perhaps person philosopher picture play pleasure poet poetry present pretensions principle Rake's Progress reason refinement ridiculous romance satire scene School for Scandal seems self-love sense sentiment Shakspeare shew sort spirit stage story style supposed sympathy Tartuffe taste Tatler thing thought Tom Jones truth turn vanity whole WILLIAM HAZLITT words writers