Lectures on the English Comic WritersWiley and Putnam, 1845 - 222 páginas |
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... sound , contrary to our usual division and classification of them in ordinary speech , not unlike the sudden separation and re - union of the component parts of the machinery in a pantomime . The author who excels infinitely the most in ...
... sound , contrary to our usual division and classification of them in ordinary speech , not unlike the sudden separation and re - union of the component parts of the machinery in a pantomime . The author who excels infinitely the most in ...
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... sound ; sometimes it is wrapped in a dress of luminous expression ; sometimes it lurketh under an odd similitude . Sometimes it is lodged in a sly question , in a smart answer ; in a quirkish reason ; in a shrewd intimation ; in cun ...
... sound ; sometimes it is wrapped in a dress of luminous expression ; sometimes it lurketh under an odd similitude . Sometimes it is lodged in a sly question , in a smart answer ; in a quirkish reason ; in a shrewd intimation ; in cun ...
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... his flambeau Gave Ralpho o'er the eyes a damn'd blow . * * * * That deals in destiny's dark counsels , And sage opinions of the moon sells . " * by an empty sound like a blow upon a drum 72 [ LECTURE IIL ON COWLER , BUTLER , ETC.
... his flambeau Gave Ralpho o'er the eyes a damn'd blow . * * * * That deals in destiny's dark counsels , And sage opinions of the moon sells . " * by an empty sound like a blow upon a drum 72 [ LECTURE IIL ON COWLER , BUTLER , ETC.
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William Hazlitt. by an empty sound like a blow upon a drum - head , * by a pun upon one word , † and by splitting ... sounds as of images . ‡ There are as many shrewd aphorisms in his works , clenched by as many quaint and individual ...
William Hazlitt. by an empty sound like a blow upon a drum - head , * by a pun upon one word , † and by splitting ... sounds as of images . ‡ There are as many shrewd aphorisms in his works , clenched by as many quaint and individual ...
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... different noise Of horns and pans , and dogs and boys , And kettle - drums , whose sullen dub Sounds like the hooping of a tub . " The widow , the termagant heroine of the poem , LECTURE III . ] 75 ON COWLEY , BUTLER , ETC.
... different noise Of horns and pans , and dogs and boys , And kettle - drums , whose sullen dub Sounds like the hooping of a tub . " The widow , the termagant heroine of the poem , LECTURE III . ] 75 ON COWLEY , BUTLER , ETC.
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