Lectures on the English Comic Writers: Delivered at the Surry InstitutionTaylor and Hessey, 1819 - 343 oldal |
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... and . unnecessary , the absurdity of which provokes our spleen or mirth , rather than any serious reflec- tions on it . B To explain the nature of laughter and tears , is LECTURE I Page INTRODUCTORY -ON WIT AND HUMOUR.
... and . unnecessary , the absurdity of which provokes our spleen or mirth , rather than any serious reflec- tions on it . B To explain the nature of laughter and tears , is LECTURE I Page INTRODUCTORY -ON WIT AND HUMOUR.
4. oldal
... absurdities that men commit , or the odd accidents that befal them , afford us amuse- ment from the very rejection of ... absurdity or unaccountableness of a foolish action is the most striking thing in it , the ludicrous prevails over ...
... absurdities that men commit , or the odd accidents that befal them , afford us amuse- ment from the very rejection of ... absurdity or unaccountableness of a foolish action is the most striking thing in it , the ludicrous prevails over ...
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... absurdity of character or situation . The accidental contradiction between our expectations and the event can hardly be said , however , to amount to the ludicrous : it is merely laughable . The ludicrous is where there is the same ...
... absurdity of character or situation . The accidental contradiction between our expectations and the event can hardly be said , however , to amount to the ludicrous : it is merely laughable . The ludicrous is where there is the same ...
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... absurdity as well as improbability , that is , where the defect or weakness is of a man's own seeking , is the most refined of all , but not always so plea- sant as the last , because the same contempt and disapprobation which sharpens ...
... absurdity as well as improbability , that is , where the defect or weakness is of a man's own seeking , is the most refined of all , but not always so plea- sant as the last , because the same contempt and disapprobation which sharpens ...
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... absurdity or insignificance . Women laugh at their lovers . We laugh at a damned author , in spite of our teeth , and though he may be our friend . " There is something in the mis- fortunes of our best friends that pleases us . " We ...
... absurdity or insignificance . Women laugh at their lovers . We laugh at a damned author , in spite of our teeth , and though he may be our friend . " There is something in the mis- fortunes of our best friends that pleases us . " We ...
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absurdity admirable affectation amusing appearance beautiful Beggar's Opera Ben Jonson better Brass burlesque Caleb Williams character colour comedy common Congreve Conscious Lovers delightful Dick Don Quixote dramatic elegance Encyclopædia Epicene equal excellent eyes face Falstaff fancy farce feeling folly genius Gil Blas give grace heart Hogarth Hudibras human idea imagination imitation instance interest invention kind Lady laugh lively look Lord lover ludicrous manners ment metaphysical poets Millamant mind moral nature ness never novel object observation original painted passion person play pleasure poet poetry pretensions racter Rake's Progress reason refinement ridiculous romantic satire scene School for Scandal seems sense sentiment serious Shakspeare Shakspeare's shew sort Spectator spirit stage story style Tartuffe Tatler thee thing thou thought tion Tom Jones truth turn vice Volpone whole wife words Wycherley
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41. oldal - The hedge-sparrow fed the cuckoo so long, That it had its head bit off by its young.
45. oldal - ... sometimes it lurketh under an odd similitude ; sometimes it is lodged in a sly question, in a smart answer, in a quirkish reason, in a shrewd intimation, in cunningly diverting or cleverly retorting an objection ; sometimes it is couched in a bold scheme of speech, in a tart irony, in a lusty hyperbole, in a startling metaphor, in a plausible reconciling of contradictions, or in acute nonsense...
86. oldal - I'll change All that is metal, in my house, to gold : And early in the morning will I send To all the plumbers and the pewterers, And buy their tin and lead up ; and to Lothbury For all the copper. Sur. What, and turn that too ? Mam. Yes, and I'll purchase Devonshire and Cornwall, And make them perfect Indies ! You admire now ? Sur. No, faith. Mam. But when you see th...
98. oldal - tis my outward soul, Viceroy to that, which then to heaven being gone, Will leave this to control And keep these limbs, her provinces, from dissolution.
24. oldal - The sun had long since, in the lap Of Thetis, taken out his nap, And, like a lobster boil'd, the morn From black to red began to turn...
139. oldal - Come, then, the colours and the ground prepare; Dip in the rainbow, trick her off in air; Choose a firm cloud before it fall, and in it Catch, ere she change, the Cynthia of this minute.
98. oldal - Gave to thy growth, thee to this height to raise, And now dost laugh and triumph on this bough, Little think'st thou That it will freeze anon, and that I shall Tomorrow find thee fall'n, or not at all.
46. oldal - ... an affected simplicity, sometimes a presumptuous bluntness giveth it being : sometimes it riseth only from a lucky hitting upon what is strange : sometimes from a crafty wresting obvious matter to the purpose: often it consisteth in one knows not what, and springeth up one can hardly tell how. Its ways are unaccountable and inexplicable, being ansv/erable to the numberless rovings of fancy and windings of language.
105. oldal - Why so pale and wan, fond lover? Prithee, why so pale? Will, when looking well can't move her, Looking ill prevail? Prithee, why so pale? Why so dull and mute, young sinner? Prithee, why so mute? Will, when speaking well can't win her, Saying nothing do 't?
238. oldal - Dreams, books, are each a world ; and books, we know, Are a substantial world, both pure and good : Round these, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood, Our pastime and our happiness will grow.