Lectures on the English Comic WritersTaylor & Hessey, 1819 - 436 oldal |
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22. oldal
... , by comparing or contrasting it with something else . Humour is , as it were , the growth of nature and accident ; wit is the product of art and fancy . Humour , as it is shewn in books , is an imitation of 22 ON WIT AND HUMOUR .
... , by comparing or contrasting it with something else . Humour is , as it were , the growth of nature and accident ; wit is the product of art and fancy . Humour , as it is shewn in books , is an imitation of 22 ON WIT AND HUMOUR .
23. oldal
William Hazlitt. it is shewn in books , is an imitation of the natural or acquired absurdities of mankind , or of the ludi- erous in accident , situation , and character : wit is the illustrating and heightening the sense of that ...
William Hazlitt. it is shewn in books , is an imitation of the natural or acquired absurdities of mankind , or of the ludi- erous in accident , situation , and character : wit is the illustrating and heightening the sense of that ...
44. oldal
... imitate humanity most abominably , " without laughing immoderately ? We overlook the farce and mum- mery of human life in little , and for nothing ; and what is still better , it costs them who have to play in it nothing . We place the ...
... imitate humanity most abominably , " without laughing immoderately ? We overlook the farce and mum- mery of human life in little , and for nothing ; and what is still better , it costs them who have to play in it nothing . We place the ...
71. oldal
... imitation and custom . Shakspeare takes his groundwork in individual character and the manners of his age , and ... imitations of her , and he appears to receive her bounty like an alms . His ON SHAKSPEARE AND BEN JONSON . 71.
... imitation and custom . Shakspeare takes his groundwork in individual character and the manners of his age , and ... imitations of her , and he appears to receive her bounty like an alms . His ON SHAKSPEARE AND BEN JONSON . 71.
100. oldal
... imitations . Sir John Davies is the author of a poem on the Soul , and of one on Dancing . In both he shews great ingenuity , and sometimes terseness and vigour . In the last of these two poems his fancy pirouettes in a very lively and ...
... imitations . Sir John Davies is the author of a poem on the Soul , and of one on Dancing . In both he shews great ingenuity , and sometimes terseness and vigour . In the last of these two poems his fancy pirouettes in a very lively and ...
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