Lectures on the English Comic WritersTaylor & Hessey, 1819 - 436 oldal |
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3. oldal
... whole is a trick at bottom . The alternation of tears and laughter , in this little episode in common life , depends almost en- tirely on the greater or less degree of interest attached to the different changes of appearance . Or The ...
... whole is a trick at bottom . The alternation of tears and laughter , in this little episode in common life , depends almost en- tirely on the greater or less degree of interest attached to the different changes of appearance . Or The ...
12. oldal
... whole place into an uproar of laughter . People at the point of death often say smart things . Sir Thomas More jested with his executioner . Rabelais and Wycherley both died with a bon - mot in their mouths . Misunderstandings ...
... whole place into an uproar of laughter . People at the point of death often say smart things . Sir Thomas More jested with his executioner . Rabelais and Wycherley both died with a bon - mot in their mouths . Misunderstandings ...
37. oldal
... , and exhibits his own absurdities or foibles purposely in the most pointed and glaring lights , runs through the whole of the character of Falstaff , and is , in truth , + the principle on which it is founded . It is ON WIT AND HUMOUR .
... , and exhibits his own absurdities or foibles purposely in the most pointed and glaring lights , runs through the whole of the character of Falstaff , and is , in truth , + the principle on which it is founded . It is ON WIT AND HUMOUR .
39. oldal
... whole charm , and puts an end to our admiration of the sublime or beautiful . Reading the finest passage in Milton's Paradise Lost in a false tone , will make it seem insipid and absurd . The cavilling at , or invidiously pointing out ...
... whole charm , and puts an end to our admiration of the sublime or beautiful . Reading the finest passage in Milton's Paradise Lost in a false tone , will make it seem insipid and absurd . The cavilling at , or invidiously pointing out ...
40. oldal
... whole work , and make us throw it down in disgust . The critics are aware of this vice and infirmity in our nature , and play upon it with periodical success . The meanest weapons are strong enough for this kind of warfare , and the ...
... whole work , and make us throw it down in disgust . The critics are aware of this vice and infirmity in our nature , and play upon it with periodical success . The meanest weapons are strong enough for this kind of warfare , and the ...
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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