Lectures on the English Comic WritersWiley and Putnam, 1845 - 222 páginas |
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... original bias to any extravagance or folly , the natural improbability , as it were , increasing every time with the multiplication of chances for a return to common sense , and in the end mounting 8 [ LECTURE I. ON WIT AND HUMOUR .
... original bias to any extravagance or folly , the natural improbability , as it were , increasing every time with the multiplication of chances for a return to common sense , and in the end mounting 8 [ LECTURE I. ON WIT AND HUMOUR .
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... originals . Without this , they would be good for nothing ; for the immediate contrast would be wanting , and with this they are sure to tell . The best parodies are , accordingly , the best and most striking things reversed . Witness ...
... originals . Without this , they would be good for nothing ; for the immediate contrast would be wanting , and with this they are sure to tell . The best parodies are , accordingly , the best and most striking things reversed . Witness ...
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... original genius , is , in my judgment , the master - piece of Molière . The set speeches in the original play , it is true , would not be borne on the English stage , nor indeed on the French , but that they are carried off by the verse ...
... original genius , is , in my judgment , the master - piece of Molière . The set speeches in the original play , it is true , would not be borne on the English stage , nor indeed on the French , but that they are carried off by the verse ...
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... original thinking in what he plunders without scruple , than Ben Jonson often did in his most studied passages , forced from the sweat and labour of his brain . His style is as dry , as literal , and meagre , as Shakspeare's is ...
... original thinking in what he plunders without scruple , than Ben Jonson often did in his most studied passages , forced from the sweat and labour of his brain . His style is as dry , as literal , and meagre , as Shakspeare's is ...
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... original of the ' Inconstant , ' are superior in style and execution to anything of Ben Jonson's . They are , indeed , some of the best comedies on the stage ; and one proof that they are so is , that they still hold possession of it ...
... original of the ' Inconstant , ' are superior in style and execution to anything of Ben Jonson's . They are , indeed , some of the best comedies on the stage ; and one proof that they are so is , that they still hold possession of it ...
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absurdity admirable affectation amusing appearance beauty Ben Jonson Brass Caleb Williams character circumstances comedy COMIC WRITERS common Congreve Conscious Lovers delightful Dick Don Quixote double entendre dramatic dress elegance equally excellence extravagance eyes face fancy farce feeling folly genius Gil Blas give grace heart Hogarth Hudibras human nature idea imagination imitation insipid instance interest invention Johnson kind Lady laugh look Lord lover ludicrous Malaprop manners Millamant mind mistress moral novel object original painted passion person piece play pleasure plot poet poetry pretensions reason refinement ridiculous satire scene School for Scandal seems sense sentiment serious Shakspeare sion Sir Andrew Ague-cheek sort Spectator spirit stage Stoops to Conquer story style Tartuffe Tatler thee things thought tion Tom Jones truth turn vice Volpone vulgar whole wife WILLIAM HAZLITT words Wycherley young
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Página 37 - tis certain ; very sure, very sure : death, as the Psalmist saith, is certain to all ; all shall die.
Página 24 - The hedge-sparrow fed the cuckoo so long, That it had its head bit off by its young.
Página 72 - ... lover? Prithee why so pale? Will, when looking well can't move her, Looking ill prevail? Prithee why so pale? Why so dull and mute, young sinner? Prithee why so mute? Will, when speaking well can't win her, Saying nothing do't?
Página 69 - tis my outward soul, Viceroy to that, which then to heaven being gone, Will leave this to control And keep these limbs, her provinces, from dissolution.
Página 68 - tis some bravery. That since you would save none of me, I bury some of you. The Blossom Little thinkst thou, poor flower. Whom I have watched six or seven days, And seen thy birth, and seen what every hour Gave to thy growth, thee to this height to raise, And now dost laugh and triumph on this bough, Little thinkst thou That it will freeze anon, and that I shall Tomorrow find thee fall'n, or not at all...
Página 14 - The sun had long since, in the lap Of Thetis, taken out his nap, And, like a lobster boil'd, the morn From black to red began to turn...
Página 18 - Wit lying most in the assemblage of Ideas, and putting those together with quickness and variety, wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant Pictures, and agreeable Visions in the fancy...
Página 62 - Do we succeed? Is our day come? and holds it? Face. The evening will set red upon you, sir; You have colour for it, crimson : the red ferment Has done, his office; three hours hence prepare you To see projection. Mam. Pertinax, my Surly, Again I say to thee aloud, Be rich. This day thou shalt have ingots; and to-morrow Give lords th
Página 77 - Drinks up the sea, and when he 's done. The Moon and Stars drink up the Sun: They drink and dance by their own light, They drink and revel all the night: Nothing in Nature 's sober found, But an eternal health goes round.
Página 94 - Beauty the lover's gift! Lord, what is a lover, that it can give? Why, one makes lovers as fast as one pleases, and they live as long as one pleases, and they die as soon as one pleases; and then, if one pleases, one makes more.