Lectures on the English Comic WritersTaylor & Hessey, 1819 - 436 oldal |
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William Hazlitt. dread of arbitrary and despotic power , as the comic and familiar stories are rendered propor- tionably amusing and interesting from the same principle operating in a different direction , and producing endless ...
William Hazlitt. dread of arbitrary and despotic power , as the comic and familiar stories are rendered propor- tionably amusing and interesting from the same principle operating in a different direction , and producing endless ...
24. oldal
... familiar circum- stances . To give an instance or two . Butler , in his Hudibras , compares the change of night into day , to the change of colour in a boiled lobster . " The sun had long since , in the lap Of Thetis , taken out his nap ...
... familiar circum- stances . To give an instance or two . Butler , in his Hudibras , compares the change of night into day , to the change of colour in a boiled lobster . " The sun had long since , in the lap Of Thetis , taken out his nap ...
41. oldal
... familiar and indifferent illustrations of the same thing in different objects , and on a meaner scale . The Fool's reproaching Lear with 66 making his daughters his mothers , " his snatches of proverbs and old ballads , " The hedge ...
... familiar and indifferent illustrations of the same thing in different objects , and on a meaner scale . The Fool's reproaching Lear with 66 making his daughters his mothers , " his snatches of proverbs and old ballads , " The hedge ...
42. oldal
... familiar kind that is merely curious and fanciful . Cowley is an in- stance of the same kind in almost all his writings . Many of the jests and witticisms in the best comedies are moral aphorisms and rules for the conduct of life ...
... familiar kind that is merely curious and fanciful . Cowley is an in- stance of the same kind in almost all his writings . Many of the jests and witticisms in the best comedies are moral aphorisms and rules for the conduct of life ...
103. oldal
... familiar dramatic dialogue approaching nearer the writers of Queen Anne's reign than those of Queen Elizabeth's . Milton's name is included by Dr. Johnson in the list of metaphysical poets on no better au- thority ON COWLEY , BUTLER ...
... familiar dramatic dialogue approaching nearer the writers of Queen Anne's reign than those of Queen Elizabeth's . Milton's name is included by Dr. Johnson in the list of metaphysical poets on no better au- thority ON COWLEY , BUTLER ...
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