Lectures on the English Comic Writers with Miscellaneous EssaysJ. M. Dent & sons, Limited, 1963 - 346 oldal |
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154. oldal
... pretensions continually exposed them either to public scorn or challenged public admiration . A lord who should take the wall of the plebeian passengers without a sword by his side , would hardly have his claim of precedence ...
... pretensions continually exposed them either to public scorn or challenged public admiration . A lord who should take the wall of the plebeian passengers without a sword by his side , would hardly have his claim of precedence ...
227. oldal
... pretensions to the utmost , than with those who wait for others to award their claims , and carry their fastidious refinement into helplessness and imbecility . Thus fools rush in where angels fear to tread ; ' and modest merit finds to ...
... pretensions to the utmost , than with those who wait for others to award their claims , and carry their fastidious refinement into helplessness and imbecility . Thus fools rush in where angels fear to tread ; ' and modest merit finds to ...
312. oldal
... pretensions ? Not birth or fortune , for neither of these would enable him to write a Clarissa . One man is born ... pretension - monstrum ingens , biforme . He could not endure a lord who was not a wit , nor a poet who was not a lord ...
... pretensions ? Not birth or fortune , for neither of these would enable him to write a Clarissa . One man is born ... pretension - monstrum ingens , biforme . He could not endure a lord who was not a wit , nor a poet who was not a lord ...
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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