Lectures on the English Comic WritersTaylor & Hessey, 1819 - 436 oldal |
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44. oldal
... better than a tragedy , a farce better than a comedy , a panto- mime better than a farce , but a puppet - show best of all . " I look upon it , that he who invented puppet - shows was a greater benefactor to his spe- cies , than he who ...
... better than a tragedy , a farce better than a comedy , a panto- mime better than a farce , but a puppet - show best of all . " I look upon it , that he who invented puppet - shows was a greater benefactor to his spe- cies , than he who ...
45. oldal
... better apprehends what it is by acquaintance , than I can inform him by description . It is , indeed , a thing so versatile and multiform , appearing in so many shapes , so many postures , so many garbs , so variously apprehended by ...
... better apprehends what it is by acquaintance , than I can inform him by description . It is , indeed , a thing so versatile and multiform , appearing in so many shapes , so many postures , so many garbs , so variously apprehended by ...
49. oldal
... better , if he had treated Socrates less scurvily , for he has treated him most scurvily both as to wit and argument . His Plutus and his Birds are striking instances , the one of dry humour , the other of airy fancy . - Lucian is a ...
... better , if he had treated Socrates less scurvily , for he has treated him most scurvily both as to wit and argument . His Plutus and his Birds are striking instances , the one of dry humour , the other of airy fancy . - Lucian is a ...
54. oldal
... better than his tragedies , and gives as a reason , that he was more at home in the one than in the other . That comedies should be written in a more easy and careless vein than tragedies , is but natu- ral . This is only saying that a ...
... better than his tragedies , and gives as a reason , that he was more at home in the one than in the other . That comedies should be written in a more easy and careless vein than tragedies , is but natu- ral . This is only saying that a ...
56. oldal
... better than the Merry Wives of Windsor , and Congreve's Way of the World as well as the Comedy of Errors or Love's Labour Lost . But I cannot say that I know of any tragedies in the world that make even a tolerable approach to Hamlet ...
... better than the Merry Wives of Windsor , and Congreve's Way of the World as well as the Comedy of Errors or Love's Labour Lost . But I cannot say that I know of any tragedies in the world that make even a tolerable approach to Hamlet ...
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