Lectures on the English Comic WritersJ.M. Dent and Company, 1900 - 304 oldal |
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18. oldal
... striking point of view . Wit , as distinguished from poetry , is the imagination or fancy inverted and so applied to given objects , as to make the little look less , the mean more light and worthless ; or to divert our admiration or ...
... striking point of view . Wit , as distinguished from poetry , is the imagination or fancy inverted and so applied to given objects , as to make the little look less , the mean more light and worthless ; or to divert our admiration or ...
73. oldal
... striking or agreeable , or not , so that it would puzzle the reader to dis- cover the meaning , and if there was the most remote circumstance , however trifling or vague , for the pretended comparison to hinge upon . They brought ideas ...
... striking or agreeable , or not , so that it would puzzle the reader to dis- cover the meaning , and if there was the most remote circumstance , however trifling or vague , for the pretended comparison to hinge upon . They brought ideas ...
277. oldal
... striking pictures of human life , is much to be preferred to the dull routine of trite , vapid , every - day common - places ; but it is more dangerous , as the stealing of pictures or family plate , quer " " She where the property can ...
... striking pictures of human life , is much to be preferred to the dull routine of trite , vapid , every - day common - places ; but it is more dangerous , as the stealing of pictures or family plate , quer " " She where the property can ...
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