Lectures on the English Comic Writers: Delivered at the Surry InstitutionTaylor and Hessey, 1819 - 343 oldal |
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48. oldal
... refinement of perception , but rather a looseness and flippancy of mind and temper , which prevents the individual from connecting any two ideas stea- dily or consistently together . It is owing to a natural crudity and precipitateness ...
... refinement of perception , but rather a looseness and flippancy of mind and temper , which prevents the individual from connecting any two ideas stea- dily or consistently together . It is owing to a natural crudity and precipitateness ...
50. oldal
... refinement of character , or common probability . The plots of several of them could not be carried on for a moment without a perfect collusion between the parties to wink at contradictions , and act in de- fiance of the evidence of ...
... refinement of character , or common probability . The plots of several of them could not be carried on for a moment without a perfect collusion between the parties to wink at contradictions , and act in de- fiance of the evidence of ...
68. oldal
... refinements of romantic passion arise out of the imagination brooding over " airy nothing , " or over a favourite object , where " love's golden shaft hath killed the flock of all affections else : " whereas the refinements of this ...
... refinements of romantic passion arise out of the imagination brooding over " airy nothing , " or over a favourite object , where " love's golden shaft hath killed the flock of all affections else : " whereas the refinements of this ...
69. oldal
Delivered at the Surry Institution William Hazlitt. whereas the refinements of this passion in genteel comedy , or in every - day life , may be said to arise out of repeated observation and experience , divert- ing and frittering away ...
Delivered at the Surry Institution William Hazlitt. whereas the refinements of this passion in genteel comedy , or in every - day life , may be said to arise out of repeated observation and experience , divert- ing and frittering away ...
133. oldal
... Refinement acts as a foil to affecta- tion , and affectation to ignorance . Sentence after sentence tells . We don't know which to admire most , the observation , or the answer to it . We would give our fingers to be able to talk so our ...
... Refinement acts as a foil to affecta- tion , and affectation to ignorance . Sentence after sentence tells . We don't know which to admire most , the observation , or the answer to it . We would give our fingers to be able to talk so our ...
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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.