Lectures on the English Comic WritersTaylor & Hessey, 1819 - 436 oldal |
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28. oldal
... piece of wit I know of , is in the lines of Pope on the Lord Mayor's show- " Now night descending , the proud scene is o'er , But lives in Settle's numbers one day more . " This is certainly as mortifying an inversion of the idea 28 ON ...
... piece of wit I know of , is in the lines of Pope on the Lord Mayor's show- " Now night descending , the proud scene is o'er , But lives in Settle's numbers one day more . " This is certainly as mortifying an inversion of the idea 28 ON ...
31. oldal
... piece of wit instead of an act of the judgment or understanding , and Euclid's Elements a collection of epigrams . On the contrary it has appeared , that the detection and exposure of differ- ence , particularly where this implies nice ...
... piece of wit instead of an act of the judgment or understanding , and Euclid's Elements a collection of epigrams . On the contrary it has appeared , that the detection and exposure of differ- ence , particularly where this implies nice ...
43. oldal
... piece of wood is doubly droll and farcical . Punch is not merry in himself , but " he is the cause of heartfelt mirth in other men . " The wires and pulleys that govern his motions are conductors to carry off the spleen , and all " that ...
... piece of wood is doubly droll and farcical . Punch is not merry in himself , but " he is the cause of heartfelt mirth in other men . " The wires and pulleys that govern his motions are conductors to carry off the spleen , and all " that ...
50. oldal
... pieces , the Bourgeois Gentilhomme , Monsieur Pourceaugnac , George Dandin , ( or Bar- naby Brittle , ) & c . are of the same description- gratuitous assumptions of character , and fanciful and outrageous caricatures of nature . He ...
... pieces , the Bourgeois Gentilhomme , Monsieur Pourceaugnac , George Dandin , ( or Bar- naby Brittle , ) & c . are of the same description- gratuitous assumptions of character , and fanciful and outrageous caricatures of nature . He ...
52. oldal
... 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 Critique de l'Ecole des Femmes , the dialogue ...
... 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 Critique de l'Ecole des Femmes , the dialogue ...
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