The Unconscious Humourist, and Other EssaysE. Mathews, 1897 - 244 páginas |
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... style , introduced by Macaulay , of lengthy book reviews and historical disquisi- tions . They are good reading , but a trifle too solid for the times when one would fain turn to some delicate , yet not worthless , trifling . As good ...
... style , introduced by Macaulay , of lengthy book reviews and historical disquisi- tions . They are good reading , but a trifle too solid for the times when one would fain turn to some delicate , yet not worthless , trifling . As good ...
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... so we note that a touch of character - drawing , though not per- haps strictly proper to the style , has been ever found a useful adjunct . Addison , of course , has his worthy knight and his satellites , and Johnson , THE ESSAY 7.
... so we note that a touch of character - drawing , though not per- haps strictly proper to the style , has been ever found a useful adjunct . Addison , of course , has his worthy knight and his satellites , and Johnson , THE ESSAY 7.
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... style , or if he had chosen to drop the cumbrous method he affected , he would have been no unworthy suc- cessor to Addison . It is wonderful what a pretty fancy occasionally peeps , half stifled , through the chinks of his laboured ...
... style , or if he had chosen to drop the cumbrous method he affected , he would have been no unworthy suc- cessor to Addison . It is wonderful what a pretty fancy occasionally peeps , half stifled , through the chinks of his laboured ...
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... style - but , if it be so , I maintain that it is bad art . The reader is wearied with stumbling over harsh phrases , and , when he comes at length to the finely expressed thought , he is probably in no mood to appreciate it . One may ...
... style - but , if it be so , I maintain that it is bad art . The reader is wearied with stumbling over harsh phrases , and , when he comes at length to the finely expressed thought , he is probably in no mood to appreciate it . One may ...
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... rhetorical out- burst ; and , when it arrives , I am the more ready to enjoy it for the note of warning . And it is probably the case that most people really prefer a rather florid style , had they the courage I 2 THE ESSAY.
... rhetorical out- burst ; and , when it arrives , I am the more ready to enjoy it for the note of warning . And it is probably the case that most people really prefer a rather florid style , had they the courage I 2 THE ESSAY.
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amusement ancient anec attained become better bicycle tour CACOETHES careless chance character charm cheerful choly common commonly commonplace companion compelled confess contrive conversation cricket critic doubt easy egoism ELKIN MATHEWS enthusiasm essay essayist eyes fact fame fancy feeling fortune friendship Gentleman's Magazine hand happy haps hard HARVARD COLLEGE hero human humour IL PENSEROSO imagine inclined intellect kind L'ALLEGRO labour least less literature look marriage matter melan ment merely mind modern natural never opinions ordinary ourselves pain path penny post perhaps pleasure poet possible present probable race reader ready reason regard repartee ridiculous road Robert Browning sadness seems sentiment side sight sober sort strong style subtle success sufficient suppose sure thing thought tion Tom Jones touch trifling true UNCONSCIOUS HUMOURIST viduals Westminster Review wish words worst worth writers
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Página 96 - ... no receipt openeth the heart but a true friend, to whom you may impart griefs, joys, fears, hopes, suspicions, counsels, and whatsoever lieth upon the heart to oppress it, in a kind of civil shrift or confession.
Página 152 - Sir, a man has no more right to say an uncivil thing, than to act one ; no more right to say a rude thing to another than to knock him down.
Página 219 - O unwearied feet, travelling ye know not whither! Soon, soon, it seems to you, you must come forth on some conspicuous hilltop, and but a little way further, against the setting sun, descry the spires of El Dorado. Little do ye know your own blessedness ; for to travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
Página 207 - Spenser, the poets' poet, but other men have also their rights. Even the Philistine is a man and a brother, and is entirely right so far as he sees. To demand more of him is to be unreasonable. ( And he sees, among other things, that a man who undertakes to write should first have a meaning perfectly...
Página 152 - And once, when Johnson was ill, and unable to exert himself as much as usual without fatigue, Mr. Burke having been mentioned, he said " That fellow calls forth all my powers. Were I to see Burke now it would kill me.
Página 207 - In ripeness of mind and bluff heartiness of expression, he takes rank with the best. His phrase is always a short-cut to his sense, for his estate was too spacious for him to need that trick of winding the path of his thought about, and planting it out with clumps of epithet, by which the landscape-gardeners of literature give to a paltry half-acre the air of a park.
Página 11 - ... intended. Your humourist, some would say, with his sly insinuations and hidden apologues, is a standing menace to Church and State. There is far too much uncertainty about him. He may attack some day by implication more than he dreams of, and his shafts of ridicule (pretty fireworks though they may be) are not precisely the things we like to see shooting about near this great powdermagazine of Society. For which reason, it may be, neither Jonathan Swift nor Sydney Smith attained the Episcopate....
Página 12 - ... itself, irreconcilable with the infectious jest. A sly suggestion of humour is often effectual where serious reasoning, even of the most potent, only adds fuel to the fire of his wrath. But it is noticeable that to this end your humour must be of the infectious order. It is of no avail, or seldom, that you employ satire or sarcasm. It is not polished wit that you want, but something common enough and ready to the hand, so it have a certain mirthprovoking incongruousness. Even if you succeed only...