Lectures on the English Comic Writers: Delivered at the Surry InstitutionTaylor and Hessey, 1819 - 343 oldal |
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4. oldal
... human life ; for it is in a manner compounded of these two ! It is a tragedy or a comedy - sad or merry , as it hap- pens . The crimes and misfortunes that are in- separable from it , shock and wound the mind when they once seize upon ...
... human life ; for it is in a manner compounded of these two ! It is a tragedy or a comedy - sad or merry , as it hap- pens . The crimes and misfortunes that are in- separable from it , shock and wound the mind when they once seize upon ...
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... human life . It is the gaiety of despair , the mirth and laughter of a respite during pleasure from death . The strongest instances of effectual and harrowing imagination , are in the story of Amine and her three sisters , whom she led ...
... human life . It is the gaiety of despair , the mirth and laughter of a respite during pleasure from death . The strongest instances of effectual and harrowing imagination , are in the story of Amine and her three sisters , whom she led ...
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... human heart with a word that explains its hollowness at once . Voltaire's saying , in answer to a stranger who was observing how tall his trees grew- " That they had nothing else to do " -was a quaint mixture of wit and humour , making ...
... human heart with a word that explains its hollowness at once . Voltaire's saying , in answer to a stranger who was observing how tall his trees grew- " That they had nothing else to do " -was a quaint mixture of wit and humour , making ...
34. oldal
... human nature it implies , would hardly pass for wit without the alliteration , as some poetry would hardly be acknowledged as such without the rhyme to clench it . A quotation or a hackneyed phrase dextrously turned or wrested to ...
... human nature it implies , would hardly pass for wit without the alliteration , as some poetry would hardly be acknowledged as such without the rhyme to clench it . A quotation or a hackneyed phrase dextrously turned or wrested to ...
39. oldal
... humanity . Any thing is sufficient to heap contempt upon an object ; even the bare sug- gestion of a mischievous allusion to what is im- proper , dissolves the whole charm , and puts an end to our admiration of the sublime or beautiful ...
... humanity . Any thing is sufficient to heap contempt upon an object ; even the bare sug- gestion of a mischievous allusion to what is im- proper , dissolves the whole charm , and puts an end to our admiration of the sublime or beautiful ...
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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.