Lectures on the English Comic Writers, and Fugitive WritingsDent, 1963 - 346 oldal |
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35. oldal
... folly , and spends its venom upon vice . • The fault , then , of Shakspeare's comic Muse is , in my opinion , that it is too good - natured and magnanimous . It mounts above its quarry . It is apprehensive , quick , forgetive , full of ...
... folly , and spends its venom upon vice . • The fault , then , of Shakspeare's comic Muse is , in my opinion , that it is too good - natured and magnanimous . It mounts above its quarry . It is apprehensive , quick , forgetive , full of ...
36. oldal
... folly , or throws cold water on his courage ; makes his puny extravagances venture out or slink into corners without asking his leave ; encourages them into indiscreet luxuriance , or checks them in the bud , just as it suits him for ...
... folly , or throws cold water on his courage ; makes his puny extravagances venture out or slink into corners without asking his leave ; encourages them into indiscreet luxuriance , or checks them in the bud , just as it suits him for ...
151. oldal
... folly , and we prevent the ridicule directed at our habitual foibles by laughing at them ourselves . If it be said , that there is the same fund of absurdity and prejudice in the world as ever - that there are the same unaccountable per ...
... folly , and we prevent the ridicule directed at our habitual foibles by laughing at them ourselves . If it be said , that there is the same fund of absurdity and prejudice in the world as ever - that there are the same unaccountable per ...
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A. C. Cawley absurdity admiration affectation amusing appearance beauty Beggar's Opera Ben Jonson better Brentford character circumstances comedy comic common Constance Garnett criticism delight Don Quixote Edited English Epicene equally ESSAYS eyes face fancy favourite feeling folly genius gentleman Gerald Bullett Gil Blas give grace Hazlitt heart hero Hogarth Hudibras human humour idea imagination insipid instance interest lady laugh live look Lord Lord Byron lover ludicrous main-chance manners means Millamant mind moral nature never novel object opinion ourselves pain passion person philosopher play pleasure POEMS 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 Tatler thing thought Tom Jones Translated truth turn vanity vols whole words writers