Lectures on the English Comic WritersWiley and Putnam, 1845 - 222 páginas |
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... excellence . The deep feeling of character strengthens the sense of the ludi- crous . Keeping in comic character is consistency in absurdity ; a determined and laudable attachment to the incongruous and singular . The regularity ...
... excellence . The deep feeling of character strengthens the sense of the ludi- crous . Keeping in comic character is consistency in absurdity ; a determined and laudable attachment to the incongruous and singular . The regularity ...
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... excellence of a kind common to them with others : but these stand alone by themselves ; they have nothing common - place in them ; they are a new power in the imagination , they tell for their whole amount , they measure from the ground ...
... excellence of a kind common to them with others : but these stand alone by themselves ; they have nothing common - place in them ; they are a new power in the imagination , they tell for their whole amount , they measure from the ground ...
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... excellence ; that is , from qualities of mind appealing to and absorbing the imagina- tion , and which , therefore , ought to be represented in poetical language by some other obvious and palpable image , exhibiting the same kind or ...
... excellence ; that is , from qualities of mind appealing to and absorbing the imagina- tion , and which , therefore , ought to be represented in poetical language by some other obvious and palpable image , exhibiting the same kind or ...
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... excellence " according to an exact scale " of Aris- totle , or fall out with a work that was good for anything , because not one of the angles at the four corners was a right one . " He was , in a word , the first author who was not a ...
... excellence " according to an exact scale " of Aris- totle , or fall out with a work that was good for anything , because not one of the angles at the four corners was a right one . " He was , in a word , the first author who was not a ...
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... excellence , both as to degree and kind , in these several writers . I shall begin with the history of the renowned ' Don Quixote de la Mancha , ' who presents something more stately , more ro- mantic , and at the same time more real to ...
... excellence , both as to degree and kind , in these several writers . I shall begin with the history of the renowned ' Don Quixote de la Mancha , ' who presents something more stately , more ro- mantic , and at the same time more real to ...
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absurdity admiration affectation amusing appearance artificial beauty Beggar's Opera Ben Jonson better blank verse Boccaccio character Chaucer circumstances comedy comic common critics delight describes Don Quixote double entendre dramatic elegance equal excellence face fancy feeling flowers folly genius Gil Blas give grace heart Hogarth Hudibras human humour idea imagination imitation instance interest kind Lady language laugh light lively look Lord Byron lover ludicrous Lycidas Lyrical Ballads manners Milton mind moral Muse nature never objects painted passion person picture play pleasure poem poet poetical poetry Pope prose reader refinement ridiculous satire scene School for Scandal seems sense sentiment Shakspeare Shakspeare's sort soul Spenser spirit story style sweet Tartuffe Tatler thee things thou thought tion Tom Jones truth turn verse vice whole wild words Wordsworth writer