Lectures on the English Comic WritersWiley and Putnam, 1845 - 222 páginas |
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... tion , before it has had time to reconcile its feelings to the change of circumstances : while laughter may be defined to be the same sort of convulsive and involuntary movement , occasioned by mere surprise or contrast ( in the absence ...
... tion , before it has had time to reconcile its feelings to the change of circumstances : while laughter may be defined to be the same sort of convulsive and involuntary movement , occasioned by mere surprise or contrast ( in the absence ...
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... tion of ludicrous weakness in character , nothing is superior to the comic parts of the Arabian Nights ' Entertainments . ' To take only the set of stories of the Little Hunchback , who was choked with a bone , and the Barber of Bagdad ...
... tion of ludicrous weakness in character , nothing is superior to the comic parts of the Arabian Nights ' Entertainments . ' To take only the set of stories of the Little Hunchback , who was choked with a bone , and the Barber of Bagdad ...
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... tion of casual pain , but the pursuit of uncertain pleasure and idle gallantry . Half the business and gaiety of comedy turns upon this . Most of the adventures , difficulties , demurs , hair - breadth ' scapes , disguises , deceptions ...
... tion of casual pain , but the pursuit of uncertain pleasure and idle gallantry . Half the business and gaiety of comedy turns upon this . Most of the adventures , difficulties , demurs , hair - breadth ' scapes , disguises , deceptions ...
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... tion , that men who have a great deal of wit and prompt memories , have not always the clearest judgment or deepest reason . For wit lying mostly in the assemblage of ideas , and putting them together with quickness and va- riety ...
... tion , that men who have a great deal of wit and prompt memories , have not always the clearest judgment or deepest reason . For wit lying mostly in the assemblage of ideas , and putting them together with quickness and va- riety ...
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... tion of it , so that if the thing when once hinted is not clear in itself , the satire fails of its effect and falls to the ground . The sarcasm here glanced at the character of the new or old French noblesse may not be well - founded ...
... tion of it , so that if the thing when once hinted is not clear in itself , the satire fails of its effect and falls to the ground . The sarcasm here glanced at the character of the new or old French noblesse may not be well - founded ...
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absurdity admiration affectation appearance artificial beauty Beggar's Opera Ben Jonson 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 less light living 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 reason 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
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Página 116 - The warbling woodland, the resounding shore, The pomp of groves, and garniture of fields; All that the genial ray of morning gilds, And all that echoes to the song of even, All that the mountain's sheltering bosom shields, And all the dread magnificence of heaven, O how canst thou renounce, and hope to be forgiven ! X.
Página 133 - At thirty man suspects himself a fool ; Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan ; At fifty chides his infamous delay, Pushes his prudent purpose to resolve; In all the magnanimity of thought Resolves and re-resolves; then dies the same.
Página 187 - But Nature, in due course of time, once more Shall here put on her beauty and her bloom. "She leaves these objects to a slow decay, That what we are, and have been, may be known ; But at the coming of the milder day These monuments shall all be overgrown.
Página 74 - What though the field be lost? All is not lost; the unconquerable will, And study of revenge, immortal hate, And courage never to submit or yield: And what is else not to be overcome?
Página 132 - tis madness to defer: Next day the fatal precedent will plead ; Thus on, till wisdom is push'd out of life. Procrastination is the thief of time ; Year after year it steals, till all are fled, And to the mercies of a moment leaves The vast concerns of an eternal scene.
Página 91 - Villiers lies — alas ! how changed from him, That life of pleasure, and that soul of whim ! Gallant and gay, in Cliveden's proud alcove, The bower of wanton Shrewsbury and love ; Or just as gay at council, in a ring Of mimic statesmen and their merry King.
Página 189 - The heavens themselves, the planets, and this centre, Observe degree, priority, and place, Insisture, course, proportion, season, form, Office, and custom, in all line of order...
Página 96 - By a daisy whose leaves spread Shut when Titan goes to bed ; Or a shady bush or tree, She could more infuse in me, Than all Nature's beauties can, In some other wiser man.
Página 158 - Kate soon will be a woefu' woman! Now, do thy speedy utmost, Meg, And win the key-stane of the brig; There, at them thou thy tail may toss, A running stream they dare na cross! But ere the key-stane she could make, The fient a tail she had to shake: For Nannie, far before the rest, Hard upon noble Maggie prest, And flew at Tam wi' furious ettle; But little wist she Maggie's mettle!
Página 193 - Alas! they had been friends in youth; But whispering tongues can poison truth; And constancy lives in realms above; And life is thorny; and youth is vain; And to be wroth with one we love Doth work like madness in the brain.