Lectures on the English Comic WritersTaylor & Hessey, 1819 - 436 oldal |
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3. oldal
... sort of convulsive and involuntary movement , occasioned by mere surprise or con- trast ( in the absence of any more serious emotion ) , before it has time to reconcile its belief to contra- dictory appearances . If we hold a mask ...
... sort of convulsive and involuntary movement , occasioned by mere surprise or con- trast ( in the absence of any more serious emotion ) , before it has time to reconcile its belief to contra- dictory appearances . If we hold a mask ...
7. oldal
... there is nothing to throw us back upon our former expectation , and renew our wonder at the event a second time . The second sort , that is , the ludicrous arising out of the improbable or dis- tressing ON WIT AND HUMOUR .
... there is nothing to throw us back upon our former expectation , and renew our wonder at the event a second time . The second sort , that is , the ludicrous arising out of the improbable or dis- tressing ON WIT AND HUMOUR .
8. oldal
... sort , or the ridiculous arising out of absurdity as well as improbability , that is , where the defect or weakness is of a man's own seeking , is the most refined of all , but not always so plea- sant as the last , because the same ...
... sort , or the ridiculous arising out of absurdity as well as improbability , that is , where the defect or weakness is of a man's own seeking , is the most refined of all , but not always so plea- sant as the last , because the same ...
16. oldal
... as if nothing of the sort had happened to him , the idea of his late disaster and present self - complacency struck him so powerfully , that , unable to resist the im- pulse , he flung himself back in the pulpit , 16 ON WIT AND HUMOUR .
... as if nothing of the sort had happened to him , the idea of his late disaster and present self - complacency struck him so powerfully , that , unable to resist the im- pulse , he flung himself back in the pulpit , 16 ON WIT AND HUMOUR .
17. oldal
... sort in the Thousand and One Nights , which are an inexhaustible mine of comic humour and invention , and which , from the manners of the East which they describe , carry the principle of callous indifference in a jest as far as it can ...
... sort in the Thousand and One Nights , which are an inexhaustible mine of comic humour and invention , and which , from the manners of the East which they describe , carry the principle of callous indifference in a jest as far as it can ...
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absurdity admirable affectation amusing appearance beautiful Beggar's Opera Ben Jonson better Brass burlesque Caleb Williams character colour comedy comic common Congreve Conscious Lovers delightful Dick Don Quixote dramatic dress elegance Epicene equal excellent eyes face Falstaff fancy farce feeling folly genius Gil Blas give grace heart Hogarth Hudibras human idea imagination imitation instance interest invention kind Lady laugh lively look Lord lover ludicrous manners metaphysical poets Millamant mind moral nature ness never night novel object observation original painted passion person play pleasure poet poetry pretensions Provoked Wife racter reason refinement ridiculous romantic satire scene School for Scandal seems sense sentiment serious Shakspeare Shakspeare's shew sort Spectator spirit stage story style Tartuffe Tatler thee thing thought tion Tom Jones truth turn vice Volpone whole wife words writers Wycherley