Lectures on the English Comic Writers: Delivered at the Surry InstitutionTaylor and Hessey, 1819 - 343 páginas |
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... admirable ; and Joseph Surface's cant maxims of morality , when once disarmed of their power to do hurt , become sufficiently ludicrous . -We laugh at that in others which is a serious matter to ourselves ; because our self - love is ...
... admirable ; and Joseph Surface's cant maxims of morality , when once disarmed of their power to do hurt , become sufficiently ludicrous . -We laugh at that in others which is a serious matter to ourselves ; because our self - love is ...
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... admiration or wean our affections from that which is lofty and impressive , instead of producing a more intense admiration and exalted passion , as poetry does . Wit may sometimes , indeed , be shewn in com- pliments as well as satire ...
... admiration or wean our affections from that which is lofty and impressive , instead of producing a more intense admiration and exalted passion , as poetry does . Wit may sometimes , indeed , be shewn in com- pliments as well as satire ...
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... admiration or pas- sion . The general forms and aggregate masses of our ideas must be brought more into play , to give weight and magnitude . Imagination may be said to be the finding out something similar in things generally alike , or ...
... admiration or pas- sion . The general forms and aggregate masses of our ideas must be brought more into play , to give weight and magnitude . Imagination may be said to be the finding out something similar in things generally alike , or ...
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... admiration of the sublime or beautiful . Reading the finest passage in Milton's Paradise Lost in a false tone , will make it seem insipid and absurd . The cavilling at , or invidiously pointing The out , a few slips of the pen , ON WIT ...
... admiration of the sublime or beautiful . Reading the finest passage in Milton's Paradise Lost in a false tone , will make it seem insipid and absurd . The cavilling at , or invidiously pointing The out , a few slips of the pen , ON WIT ...
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... admiration , as signifying a nimble sagacity of apprehension , a special felicity of invention , a vivacity of spirit , and reach of wit more than vulgar : it seeming to argue a rare quickness of parts , that one can fetch in remote ...
... admiration , as signifying a nimble sagacity of apprehension , a special felicity of invention , a vivacity of spirit , and reach of wit more than vulgar : it seeming to argue a rare quickness of parts , that one can fetch in remote ...
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Página 87 - Restore his years, renew him like an eagle, To the fifth age ; make him get sons and daughters, Young giants, as our philosophers have done (The ancient patriarchs afore the flood) But taking, once a week, on a knife's point The quantity of a grain of mustard of it, Become stout Marses, and beget young Cupids.
Página 105 - Why so pale and wan, fond lover? Prithee, why so pale? Will, when looking well can't move her, Looking ill prevail? Prithee, why so pale?
Página 107 - Her lips were red; and one was thin Compared to that was next her chin, Some bee had stung it newly: But, Dick, her eyes so guard her face, I durst no more upon them gaze Than on the sun in July. Her mouth so small, when she does speak Thou'dst swear her teeth her words did break That they might passage get; But she so handled still the matter They came as good as ours, or better, And are not spent a whit.
Página 99 - I long to talk with some old lover's ghost, Who died before the god of love was born : I cannot think that he, who then loved most, Sunk so low as to love one which did scorn. But since this god produced a destiny, And that vice-nature, custom, lets it be, I must love her, that loves not me. Sure, they which made him god, meant not so much Nor he in his young godhead...
Página 113 - Thou dost drink, and dance, and sing, Happier than the happiest king ! All the fields which thou dost see, All the plants belong to thee ; All that summer hours produce, Fertile made with early juice. Man for thee does sow and plough ; Farmer he, and landlord thou ! Thou dost innocently joy ; Nor does thy luxury destroy.
Página 111 - The thirsty earth soaks up the rain, And drinks, and gapes for drink again, The plants suck in the earth, and are With constant drinking fresh and fair.
Página 45 - ... in cunningly diverting or cleverly retorting an objection: sometimes it is couched in a bold scheme of speech, in a tart irony, in a lusty hyperbole, in a startling metaphor, in a plausible reconciling of contradictions, or in acute nonsense...
Página 23 - Do what you will, Sir, you cannot avoid it. Should you even write as ill as you can, your letters would be published as curiosities. ' Behold a miracle ! instead of wit See two dull lines with Stanhope's pencil writ.
Página 113 - Phoebus is himself thy sire. To thee of all things upon earth, Life is no longer than thy mirth. Happy insect ! happy thou, Dost neither age nor winter know : But when thou'st drunk, and danced, and sung Thy fill, the flowery leaves among, (Voluptuous, and wise withal. Epicurean animal !) Sated with thy summer feast, Thou retir'st to endless rest.
Página 99 - Confusion worse confounded'. Here lies a she sun, and a he moon here, She gives the best light to his sphere, Or each is both, and all, and so They unto one another nothing owe.