Lectures on the English Comic WritersTaylor & Hessey, 1819 - 436 oldal |
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15. oldal
... delightful ; and after the pair I have just alluded to , My Uncle Toby's is one of the best and gentlest that " ever lifted leg ! " The inconveniences , odd accidents , falls , and bruises , to which they expose their riders ...
... delightful ; and after the pair I have just alluded to , My Uncle Toby's is one of the best and gentlest that " ever lifted leg ! " The inconveniences , odd accidents , falls , and bruises , to which they expose their riders ...
43. oldal
... delightful to children and grown persons , and to all ages and nations , are almost miraculous . The invention of a fable is to me the most enviable exertion of human genius : it is the discovering a truth to which there is no clue ...
... delightful to children and grown persons , and to all ages and nations , are almost miraculous . The invention of a fable is to me the most enviable exertion of human genius : it is the discovering a truth to which there is no clue ...
46. oldal
... delight thereto . It raiseth admiration , as signifying a nimble sagacity of apprehension , a special felicity of invention , a vivacity of spirit , and reach of wit more than vulgar : it seeming to argue a rare quickness of parts ...
... delight thereto . It raiseth admiration , as signifying a nimble sagacity of apprehension , a special felicity of invention , a vivacity of spirit , and reach of wit more than vulgar : it seeming to argue a rare quickness of parts ...
47. oldal
... delight by grati- fying curiosity with its rareness or semblance of difficulty ( as monsters , not for their beauty but their rarity ; as juggling tricks , not for their use but their abstruseness , are beheld with pleasure ; ) by ...
... delight by grati- fying curiosity with its rareness or semblance of difficulty ( as monsters , not for their beauty but their rarity ; as juggling tricks , not for their use but their abstruseness , are beheld with pleasure ; ) by ...
55. oldal
... ; whereas I think , on the other hand , that in comedy , though his talents there too were as wonderful as they were delightful , yet that there were some before him , others on a level with ON SHAKSPEARE AND BEN JONSON . 55 1195.
... ; whereas I think , on the other hand , that in comedy , though his talents there too were as wonderful as they were delightful , yet that there were some before him , others on a level with ON SHAKSPEARE AND BEN JONSON . 55 1195.
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