Lectures on the English Comic Writers with Miscellaneous EssaysJ. M. Dent & sons, Limited, 1963 - 346 oldal |
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49. oldal
... learning , and to show their learning was their whole endeavour : but unluckily resolving to show it in rhyme , instead of writing poetry , they only wrote verses , and very often such verses as stood the trial of the finger better than ...
... learning , and to show their learning was their whole endeavour : but unluckily resolving to show it in rhyme , instead of writing poetry , they only wrote verses , and very often such verses as stood the trial of the finger better than ...
200. oldal
... learning then wore , relieved by the gay , familiar tone of men of the world , and by the courtesies of genius . Surely , the thoughts and feelings which passed through the minds of these great revivers of learning , these Cadmuses who ...
... learning then wore , relieved by the gay , familiar tone of men of the world , and by the courtesies of genius . Surely , the thoughts and feelings which passed through the minds of these great revivers of learning , these Cadmuses who ...
232. oldal
... learning ? And are they not , with few exceptions , noted for imposture and time - serving , much more than for a love of truth and candour ? They are good subjects , it is true ; bound to keep the peace , and hired to maintain certain ...
... learning ? And are they not , with few exceptions , noted for imposture and time - serving , much more than for a love of truth and candour ? They are good subjects , it is true ; bound to keep the peace , and hired to maintain certain ...
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A. C. Cawley absurdity admiration affectation amusing appearance beauty Beggar's Opera Ben Jonson better Brentford character circumstances comedy comic common criticism delight Don Quixote Edited English equally ESSAYS Everyman's Library extravagance eyes face fancy favourite feeling folly genius gentleman Gerald Bullett Gil Blas give grace Hazlitt heart hero Hogarth Hudibras human humour idea imagination insipid instance interest J. G. Lockhart lady laugh live look Lord Lord Byron lover ludicrous manners means Millamant mind moral nature never novel object ourselves pain passion person play pleasure POEMS poet poetry present pretensions principle Rake's Progress reason refinement ridiculous romance satire scene School for Scandal seems self-love sense sentiment Shakspeare shew sort spirit stage story style supposed sympathy Tartuffe Tatler thing thought Tom Jones Translated truth turn vanity vols whole words writers