Lectures on the English Comic Writers: Delivered at the Surry InstitutionM. Carey and Son, 1819 - 343 oldal |
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2. oldal
... human life ; for it is in a manner compounded of these two ! It is a tragedy or a comedy - sad or merry , as it hap- pens . The crimes and misfortunes that are in- separable from it , shock and wound the mind when they once seize upon ...
... human life ; for it is in a manner compounded of these two ! It is a tragedy or a comedy - sad or merry , as it hap- pens . The crimes and misfortunes that are in- separable from it , shock and wound the mind when they once seize upon ...
20. oldal
... human life . It is the gaiety of despair , the mirth and laughter of a respite during pleasure from death . The strongest instances of effectual and harrowing imagination , are in the story of Amine and her three sisters , whom she led ...
... human life . It is the gaiety of despair , the mirth and laughter of a respite during pleasure from death . The strongest instances of effectual and harrowing imagination , are in the story of Amine and her three sisters , whom she led ...
27. oldal
... human heart with a word that explains its hollowness at once . Voltaire's saying , in answer to a stranger who was observing how tall his trees grew- " That they had nothing else to do❞ — was a quaint mixture of wit and humour , making ...
... human heart with a word that explains its hollowness at once . Voltaire's saying , in answer to a stranger who was observing how tall his trees grew- " That they had nothing else to do❞ — was a quaint mixture of wit and humour , making ...
34. oldal
... human nature it implies , would hardly pass for wit without the alliteration , as some poetry would hardly be acknowledged as such without the rhyme to clench it . A quotation or a hackneyed phrase dextrously turned or wrested to ...
... human nature it implies , would hardly pass for wit without the alliteration , as some poetry would hardly be acknowledged as such without the rhyme to clench it . A quotation or a hackneyed phrase dextrously turned or wrested to ...
39. oldal
... humanity . Any thing is sufficient to heap contempt upon an object ; even the bare sug- gestion of a mischievous allusion to what is im- proper , dissolves the whole charm , and puts an end to our admiration of the sublime or beautiful ...
... humanity . Any thing is sufficient to heap contempt upon an object ; even the bare sug- gestion of a mischievous allusion to what is im- proper , dissolves the whole charm , and puts an end to our admiration of the sublime or beautiful ...
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