Lectures on the English Comic WritersTaylor & Hessey, 1819 - 436 oldal |
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43. oldal
... genius : it is the discovering a truth to which there is no clue , and which , when once found out , can never be for- gotten . I would rather have been the author of Æsop's Fables , than of Euclid's Elements ! -That popular ...
... genius : it is the discovering a truth to which there is no clue , and which , when once found out , can never be for- gotten . I would rather have been the author of Æsop's Fables , than of Euclid's Elements ! -That popular ...
52. oldal
... genius , is , in my judgment , the master- piece of Moliere . The set speeches in the original play , it is true , would not be borne on the English stage , nor indeed on the French , but that they are carried off by the verse . The ...
... genius , is , in my judgment , the master- piece of Moliere . The set speeches in the original play , it is true , would not be borne on the English stage , nor indeed on the French , but that they are carried off by the verse . The ...
55. oldal
... genius of the poet as erroneous and un- founded , that I should say that he is the only tragic poet in the world in the highest sense , as being on a par with , and the same as Nature , in her greatest heights and depths of action and ...
... genius of the poet as erroneous and un- founded , that I should say that he is the only tragic poet in the world in the highest sense , as being on a par with , and the same as Nature , in her greatest heights and depths of action and ...
56. oldal
... genius than Shakspeare , though assuredly I do not think that Racine was as great , or a greater tragic genius . I think that both Rabelais and Cervantes , the one in the power of ludicrous description , the other in the invention and ...
... genius than Shakspeare , though assuredly I do not think that Racine was as great , or a greater tragic genius . I think that both Rabelais and Cervantes , the one in the power of ludicrous description , the other in the invention and ...
57. oldal
... record . Falstaff alone is an in- stance which , if I would , I could not get over . " He is the leviathan of all the creatures of the author's comic genius , and tumbles about his un- wieldy ON SHAKSPEARE AND BEN JONSON . 57.
... record . Falstaff alone is an in- stance which , if I would , I could not get over . " He is the leviathan of all the creatures of the author's comic genius , and tumbles about his un- wieldy ON SHAKSPEARE AND BEN JONSON . 57.
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