Lectures on the English Comic Writers: Delivered at the Surry InstitutionM. Carey and Son, 1819 - 343 oldal |
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19. oldal
... young gentle- man whom he is sent for to shave , his prepara- tions and his professions of speed , his taking out an astrolabe to measure the height of the sun while his razors are getting ready , his dancing the dance of Zimri and ...
... young gentle- man whom he is sent for to shave , his prepara- tions and his professions of speed , his taking out an astrolabe to measure the height of the sun while his razors are getting ready , his dancing the dance of Zimri and ...
41. oldal
... fed the cuckoo so long , that it had its head bit off by its young , " and " Whoop jug , I know when the horse follows the cart , " are a running commentary of trite truisms , pointing out the extreme folly of ON WIT AND HUMOUR . 41.
... fed the cuckoo so long , that it had its head bit off by its young , " and " Whoop jug , I know when the horse follows the cart , " are a running commentary of trite truisms , pointing out the extreme folly of ON WIT AND HUMOUR . 41.
61. oldal
... young . So , at least , he tells his cousin Silence , and Falstaff encourages the lofti- ness of his pretensions . Shallow would be thought a great man among his dependents and followers ; Silence is nobody - not even in his own opinion ...
... young . So , at least , he tells his cousin Silence , and Falstaff encourages the lofti- ness of his pretensions . Shallow would be thought a great man among his dependents and followers ; Silence is nobody - not even in his own opinion ...
67. oldal
... young booby ' squire , whose absurdities have not yet arrived at years of discretion : but my Lord Foppington , who is " the prince of coxcombs , " and " proud of being at the head of so prevailing a party , " deserves his fate . I am ...
... young booby ' squire , whose absurdities have not yet arrived at years of discretion : but my Lord Foppington , who is " the prince of coxcombs , " and " proud of being at the head of so prevailing a party , " deserves his fate . I am ...
70. oldal
... young man when he wrote this character ; and that makes the miracle the greater . I do not , in short , consider comedy as exactly an affair of the heart or the imagination ; and it is for this reason only that I think Shakspeare's ...
... young man when he wrote this character ; and that makes the miracle the greater . I do not , in short , consider comedy as exactly an affair of the heart or the imagination ; and it is for this reason only that I think Shakspeare's ...
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