Lectures on the English Comic WritersRussell & Russell, 1969 - 343 páginas |
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... thought- less , who is surprised at every thing he sees ; or wonderfully conceited , who expects every thing to conform to his standard of propriety . Clowns and idiots laugh on all occasions ; and the com- mon failing of wishing to be ...
... thought- less , who is surprised at every thing he sees ; or wonderfully conceited , who expects every thing to conform to his standard of propriety . Clowns and idiots laugh on all occasions ; and the com- mon failing of wishing to be ...
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... thought it cost Shakspeare to write his tragedies , only shewed the labour which it cost the critic in reading them , that is , his gene- ral indisposition to sympathise heartily and spon- taneously with works of high wrought passion or ...
... thought it cost Shakspeare to write his tragedies , only shewed the labour which it cost the critic in reading them , that is , his gene- ral indisposition to sympathise heartily and spon- taneously with works of high wrought passion or ...
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... thought , and depth of feeling ; but they chose to hide them ( as much as they possibly could ) under a false shew of learning and unmean- ing subtlety . From the style which they had systematically adopted , they thought nothing done ...
... thought , and depth of feeling ; but they chose to hide them ( as much as they possibly could ) under a false shew of learning and unmean- ing subtlety . From the style which they had systematically adopted , they thought nothing done ...
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LECTURE | 1 |
ON SHAKSPEARE AND BEN JONSON | 54 |
LECTURE III | 92 |
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absurdity admirable Æschylus affectation amusing appearance beauty Beggar's Opera Ben Jonson Brass burlesque Caleb Williams character colour comedy common Congreve Conscious Lovers delightful Dick Don Quixote dramatic dress elegance Epicene equal excellent eyes face Falstaff fancy farce feeling folly genius Gil Blas give grace heart Hogarth Hudibras idea imagination imitation instance interest invention kind Lady laugh laughter lively look Lord lover ludicrous manners metaphysical poets Millamant mind moral ness never novel object observation painted passion person play pleasure poet poetry pretensions Provoked Wife racter reason refinement ridiculous romantic satire scene School for Scandal seems sense sentiment serious Shakspeare Shakspeare's shew sort Spectator spirit stage story style Tartuffe Tatler thee thing thou thought tion Tom Jones truth turn vice Volpone whole wife wit and humour words Wycherley