Lectures on the English Comic WritersWiley and Putnam, 1845 - 222 páginas |
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... sentiment , or from the principle of similitude and dissimilitude . The devotion to nonsense , and enthusiasm about trifles , is highly affecting as a moral lesson : it is one of the striking weaknesses and greatest happinesses of our ...
... sentiment , or from the principle of similitude and dissimilitude . The devotion to nonsense , and enthusiasm about trifles , is highly affecting as a moral lesson : it is one of the striking weaknesses and greatest happinesses of our ...
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... sentiment , which still survives in all its fluttering grace and breathless palpitations on the stage . Humour is the describing the ludicrous as it is in itself ; wit is the exposing it , by comparing or contrasting it with something ...
... sentiment , which still survives in all its fluttering grace and breathless palpitations on the stage . Humour is the describing the ludicrous as it is in itself ; wit is the exposing it , by comparing or contrasting it with something ...
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... sentiment by the introduction of burlesque and familiar circumstances . To give an instance or two . Butler , in his ' Hudibras , ' compares the change of night into day to the change of colour in a boiled lobster . " The sun had long ...
... sentiment by the introduction of burlesque and familiar circumstances . To give an instance or two . Butler , in his ' Hudibras , ' compares the change of night into day to the change of colour in a boiled lobster . " The sun had long ...
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... sentiment : how easy it must be then to travestie or burlesque it , to flounder into nonsense , and be witty by playing the fool . It is a common mistake , however , to suppose that parodies degrade , or imply a stigma on the subject ...
... sentiment : how easy it must be then to travestie or burlesque it , to flounder into nonsense , and be witty by playing the fool . It is a common mistake , however , to suppose that parodies degrade , or imply a stigma on the subject ...
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... sentiment , such as the exquisite account of the fable of the halcyon put into the mouth of Socrates , and the heroic eulogy on Bacchus , which is conceived in the highest strain of glowing panegyric . The two other authors I proposed ...
... sentiment , such as the exquisite account of the fable of the halcyon put into the mouth of Socrates , and the heroic eulogy on Bacchus , which is conceived in the highest strain of glowing panegyric . The two other authors I proposed ...
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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.