Lectures on the English Comic WritersTaylor & Hessey, 1819 - 436 oldal |
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9. oldal
... never saw him before . Any one dressed in the height of the fashion , or quite out of it , is equally an object of ridicule . One rich source of the lu- dicrous is distress with which we cannot sympa- thise from its absurdity or ...
... never saw him before . Any one dressed in the height of the fashion , or quite out of it , is equally an object of ridicule . One rich source of the lu- dicrous is distress with which we cannot sympa- thise from its absurdity or ...
43. oldal
... never be for- gotten . I would rather have been the author of Æsop's Fables , than of Euclid's Elements ! -That popular entertainment , Punch and the Puppet- show , owes part of its irresistible and universal attraction to nearly the ...
... never be for- gotten . I would rather have been the author of Æsop's Fables , than of Euclid's Elements ! -That popular entertainment , Punch and the Puppet- show , owes part of its irresistible and universal attraction to nearly the ...
53. oldal
... Even to those who have never read his works , the name of Rabelais is a cordial to the spirits , and the mention of it cannot consist with gravity or spleen ! LECTURE II . ON SHAKSPEARE AND BEN JONSON . DR ON WIT AND HUMOUR . 53 3333.
... Even to those who have never read his works , the name of Rabelais is a cordial to the spirits , and the mention of it cannot consist with gravity or spleen ! LECTURE II . ON SHAKSPEARE AND BEN JONSON . DR ON WIT AND HUMOUR . 53 3333.
60. oldal
... never broken . Who would quarrel with Wart or Feeble , or Mouldy or Bull - calf , or even with Pistol , Nym , or Bardolph ? None but a hypocrite . The severe censurers of the morals of imaginary characters can generally find a hole for ...
... never broken . Who would quarrel with Wart or Feeble , or Mouldy or Bull - calf , or even with Pistol , Nym , or Bardolph ? None but a hypocrite . The severe censurers of the morals of imaginary characters can generally find a hole for ...
63. oldal
... never preached . We see the frail con- dition of human life , and the weakness of the human understanding in Shallow's reflections on it ; who , while the past is sliding from beneath his feet , still clings to the present . The meanest ...
... never preached . We see the frail con- dition of human life , and the weakness of the human understanding in Shallow's reflections on it ; who , while the past is sliding from beneath his feet , still clings to the present . The meanest ...
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