Lectures on the English Comic Writers, and Fugitive WritingsDent, 1963 - 346 oldal |
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124. oldal
... refinement or vulgarity , are equally superficial and confined . The whole is a question of form , whether that form is adhered to or infringed upon . It is this circumstance which takes away dignity and interest from her story and ...
... refinement or vulgarity , are equally superficial and confined . The whole is a question of form , whether that form is adhered to or infringed upon . It is this circumstance which takes away dignity and interest from her story and ...
152. oldal
... refinement on the stage and in real life , marked on a graduated scale of human perfectibility , and have been hence led to imagine that the best of our old comedies were no better than the coarse jests of a set of country clowns - a ...
... refinement on the stage and in real life , marked on a graduated scale of human perfectibility , and have been hence led to imagine that the best of our old comedies were no better than the coarse jests of a set of country clowns - a ...
191. oldal
... refinement , the peculiarities of individuals and of classes wear out or lose their sharp , abrupt edges ; nay , a certain slowness and dulness of understanding is required to be struck with odd and unaccountable appearances , for which ...
... refinement , the peculiarities of individuals and of classes wear out or lose their sharp , abrupt edges ; nay , a certain slowness and dulness of understanding is required to be struck with odd and unaccountable appearances , for which ...
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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