Lectures on the English Comic Writers: Delivered at the Surry InstitutionM. Carey and Son, 1819 - 343 oldal |
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... never saw him before . Any one dressed in the height of the fashion , or quite out of it , is equally an object of ridicule . One rich source of the lu- dicrous is distress with which we cannot sympa- thise from its absurdity or ...
... never saw him before . Any one dressed in the height of the fashion , or quite out of it , is equally an object of ridicule . One rich source of the lu- dicrous is distress with which we cannot sympa- thise from its absurdity or ...
25. oldal
... never wet , But firm is fix'd and sendeth light from far To all that in the wide deep wand'ring are : And cheerful chanticleer with his note shrill , Had warned once that Phoebus ' fiery car In haste was climbing up the eastern hill ...
... never wet , But firm is fix'd and sendeth light from far To all that in the wide deep wand'ring are : And cheerful chanticleer with his note shrill , Had warned once that Phoebus ' fiery car In haste was climbing up the eastern hill ...
43. oldal
... never be for- gotten . I would rather have been the author of Æsop's Fables , than of Euclid's Elements ! -That popular entertainment , Punch and the Puppet- show , owes part of its irresistible and universal attraction to nearly the ...
... never be for- gotten . I would rather have been the author of Æsop's Fables , than of Euclid's Elements ! -That popular entertainment , Punch and the Puppet- show , owes part of its irresistible and universal attraction to nearly the ...
53. oldal
... Even to those who have never read his works , the name of Rabelais is a cordial to the spirits , and the mention of it cannot consist with gravity or spleen ! LECTURE II . ON SHAKSPEARE AND BEN JONSON . DR ON WIT AND HUMOUR . 53.
... Even to those who have never read his works , the name of Rabelais is a cordial to the spirits , and the mention of it cannot consist with gravity or spleen ! LECTURE II . ON SHAKSPEARE AND BEN JONSON . DR ON WIT AND HUMOUR . 53.
60. oldal
... never broken . Who would quarrel with Wart or Feeble , or Mouldy or Bull - calf , or even with Pistol , Nym , or Bardolph ? None but a hypocrite . The severe censurers of the morals of imaginary characters can generally find a hole for ...
... never broken . Who would quarrel with Wart or Feeble , or Mouldy or Bull - calf , or even with Pistol , Nym , or Bardolph ? None but a hypocrite . The severe censurers of the morals of imaginary characters can generally find a hole for ...
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