Lectures on the English Comic Writers: Delivered at the Surry InstitutionTaylor and Hessey, 1819 - 343 páginas |
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... force people to laugh : you cannot give a reason why they should laugh : they must laugh of themselves , or not at all . As we laugh from a spontaneous impulse , we laugh the more at any restraint upon this impulse . We laugh at a thing ...
... force people to laugh : you cannot give a reason why they should laugh : they must laugh of themselves , or not at all . As we laugh from a spontaneous impulse , we laugh the more at any restraint upon this impulse . We laugh at a thing ...
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... force to the same principle . In such cases it is the contrast between the appearance and the reality , the sus- pense of belief , and the seeming incongruity , that gives point to the ridicule , and makes it enter the deeper when the ...
... force to the same principle . In such cases it is the contrast between the appearance and the reality , the sus- pense of belief , and the seeming incongruity , that gives point to the ridicule , and makes it enter the deeper when the ...
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... force and forceless * care , As if that luck , in very spite of cunning , Bad him win all . " There are people who cannot taste olives - and I cannot much relish Ben Jonson , though I have taken some pains to do it , and went to the ...
... force and forceless * care , As if that luck , in very spite of cunning , Bad him win all . " There are people who cannot taste olives - and I cannot much relish Ben Jonson , though I have taken some pains to do it , and went to the ...
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... force on the stage . Bobadil is the only actually striking character in the play , and the real hero of the piece . His well - known proposal for the pacification of Europe , by killing some twenty of them , each his man a day , is as ...
... force on the stage . Bobadil is the only actually striking character in the play , and the real hero of the piece . His well - known proposal for the pacification of Europe , by killing some twenty of them , each his man a day , is as ...
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... force in detect- ing and exposing the aberrations from the broad and beaten path of propriety and common sense , he would have amply deserved the reputation he has acquired as a philosophical critic . The writers here referred to ( such ...
... force in detect- ing and exposing the aberrations from the broad and beaten path of propriety and common sense , he would have amply deserved the reputation he has acquired as a philosophical critic . The writers here referred to ( such ...
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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.