Lectures on the English Comic Writers: Delivered at the Surry InstitutionM. Carey and Son, 1819 - 343 oldal |
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20. oldal
... 9 There is another source of comic humour which has been but little touched on or attended to by the critics - not the infliction of casual pain , • " but the pursuit of uncertain pleasure and idle 20 ON WIT AND HUMOUR .
... 9 There is another source of comic humour which has been but little touched on or attended to by the critics - not the infliction of casual pain , • " but the pursuit of uncertain pleasure and idle 20 ON WIT AND HUMOUR .
40. oldal
... 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 meanest hands can wield them . Spleen can subsist on any ...
... 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 meanest hands can wield them . Spleen can subsist on any ...
51. oldal
... criticism . - The same remarks apply in a greater degree to the Tartuffe . The long speeches and reasonings in this play tire one almost to death : they may be very good logic , or rhetoric , or phi- losophy , or any thing but comedy ...
... criticism . - The same remarks apply in a greater degree to the Tartuffe . The long speeches and reasonings in this play tire one almost to death : they may be very good logic , or rhetoric , or phi- losophy , or any thing but comedy ...
54. oldal
... critic in reading them , that is , his gene- ral indisposition to sympathise heartily and spon- taneously with works of high - wrought passion or imagination . There is not in any part of this author's writings the slightest trace of ...
... critic in reading them , that is , his gene- ral indisposition to sympathise heartily and spon- taneously with works of high - wrought passion or imagination . There is not in any part of this author's writings the slightest trace of ...
92. oldal
... by counting the syllables . " If the father of criticism has rightly de- nominated poetry Tεx μμnt , an imitative art , these writers will , without great wrong , lose their LECTURE III ON COWLEY, BUTLER, SUCKLING, ETHEREGE,
... by counting the syllables . " If the father of criticism has rightly de- nominated poetry Tεx μμnt , an imitative art , these writers will , without great wrong , lose their LECTURE III ON COWLEY, BUTLER, SUCKLING, ETHEREGE,
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