Lectures on the English Comic WritersWiley and Putnam, 1845 - 222 páginas |
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... better placed ; but , on reflection , I have retained that Lecture in its ori- ginal position ; for , after all , Hogarth was a comic writer , and one of our best ; the only difference is , that he wrote on canvass . W. H. CONTENTS ...
... better placed ; but , on reflection , I have retained that Lecture in its ori- ginal position ; for , after all , Hogarth was a comic writer , and one of our best ; the only difference is , that he wrote on canvass . W. H. CONTENTS ...
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... better than a tragedy , a farce better than a comedy , a pantomime better than a farce , but a puppet - show best of all . " I look upon it , that he who invented puppet - shows was a greater benefactor to his species , than he who ...
... better than a tragedy , a farce better than a comedy , a pantomime better than a farce , but a puppet - show best of all . " I look upon it , that he who invented puppet - shows was a greater benefactor to his species , than he who ...
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... better if he had treated Socrates less scurvily , for he has treated him most scurvily both as to wit and argument . His Plutus and his Birds are striking instances , the one of dry humour , the other of airy fancy . - Lucian is a ...
... better if he had treated Socrates less scurvily , for he has treated him most scurvily both as to wit and argument . His Plutus and his Birds are striking instances , the one of dry humour , the other of airy fancy . - Lucian is a ...
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... better than his tra- gedies , and gives as a reason , that he was more at home in the one than in the other . That comedies should be written in a more easy and careless vein than tragedies , is but natural . This is only saying that a ...
... better than his tra- gedies , and gives as a reason , that he was more at home in the one than in the other . That comedies should be written in a more easy and careless vein than tragedies , is but natural . This is only saying that a ...
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... better than the ' Merry Wives of Windsor , ' and Congreve's Way of the World ' as well as the ' Comedy of Errors ' or ' Love's Labour Lost . ' But I cannot say that I know of any tragedies in the world that make even a tolerable ...
... better than the ' Merry Wives of Windsor , ' and Congreve's Way of the World ' as well as the ' Comedy of Errors ' or ' Love's Labour Lost . ' But I cannot say that I know of any tragedies in the world that make even a tolerable ...
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