Lectures on the English Poets and the English Comic WritersWilliam Hazlitt, William Carew Hazlitt George Bell, 1906 - 454 páginas |
No interior do livro
Resultados 1-5 de 77
Página 2
... pleasure instead of pain from the farce of life which is played before us , and which discomposes our gravity as often as it fails to move our anger or our pity ! Tears may be considered as the natural and involuntary resource of the ...
... pleasure instead of pain from the farce of life which is played before us , and which discomposes our gravity as often as it fails to move our anger or our pity ! Tears may be considered as the natural and involuntary resource of the ...
Página 4
... unawares , throws it off its guard , startles it into a lively sense of pleasure , and leaves no time nor inclination for painful reflections . The essence of the laughable then is the incongruous , 4 The English Comic Writers .
... unawares , throws it off its guard , startles it into a lively sense of pleasure , and leaves no time nor inclination for painful reflections . The essence of the laughable then is the incongruous , 4 The English Comic Writers .
Página 14
... pleasure from death . The strongest instances of effectual and harrowing imagination are in the story of Amine and her three sisters , whom she led by her side as a leash of hounds , and of the goul who nibbled grains of rice for her ...
... pleasure from death . The strongest instances of effectual and harrowing imagination are in the story of Amine and her three sisters , whom she led by her side as a leash of hounds , and of the goul who nibbled grains of rice for her ...
Página 16
... pleasure or pain ; for as soon as it describes the serious seriously , it ceases to be wit , and passes into a different form . Wit is , in fact , the eloquence of indiffer- ence , or an ingenious and striking exposition of those ...
... pleasure or pain ; for as soon as it describes the serious seriously , it ceases to be wit , and passes into a different form . Wit is , in fact , the eloquence of indiffer- ence , or an ingenious and striking exposition of those ...
Página 17
... pleasure and power wait on every line and word ; whereas , in the other , the only memorable thing is a grotesque and ludicrous illustration of the alteration which takes place from darkness to gorgeous light , and that brought from the ...
... pleasure and power wait on every line and word ; whereas , in the other , the only memorable thing is a grotesque and ludicrous illustration of the alteration which takes place from darkness to gorgeous light , and that brought from the ...
Outras edições - Ver tudo
Lectures on the English Poets, and the English Comic Writers William Hazlitt,William Carew Hazlitt Visualização integral - 1869 |
Lectures on the English Poets, and on the English Comic Writers William Hazlitt Visualização integral - 1880 |
Palavras e frases frequentes
A. H. Bullen absurdity admirable affectation appear beauty Beggar's Opera Ben Jonson better blank verse Boccaccio character Chaucer colour comedy comic common delight Don Quixote dramatic Edited English equal Essays excellence face fame fancy feeling folly genius Gil Blas give grace heart History Hogarth Hudibras human humour idea Illustrations imagination imitation instance interest Lady language laugh living look Lord lover ludicrous Lyrical Ballads manners Milton mind Molière moral Muse nature never night objects original Othello painted passion person picture play pleasure poem poet poetical poetry Pope Portraits prose racter reader revised ridiculous romantic satire scene School for Scandal sense sentiment Shakspeare Shakspeare's Spenser spirit story style Tatler thee things thou thought tion Tom Jones Trans Translated truth verse vols whole William Hazlitt words writer