Lectures on the English Comic WritersWiley and Putnam, 1845 - 222 páginas |
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... thoughts and aching " Twixt sleeping kept all night and waking , Began to rub his drowsy eyes , And from his couch prepared to rise , Resolving to dispatch the deed He vow'd to do with trusty speed . " Compare this with the following ...
... thoughts and aching " Twixt sleeping kept all night and waking , Began to rub his drowsy eyes , And from his couch prepared to rise , Resolving to dispatch the deed He vow'd to do with trusty speed . " Compare this with the following ...
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... thought of : it fixes the maximum of littleness and insignificance ; but it is not by likeness to any- thing else that it does this , but by literally taking the lowest possible duration of ephemeral reputation , marking it ( as with a ...
... thought of : it fixes the maximum of littleness and insignificance ; but it is not by likeness to any- thing else that it does this , but by literally taking the lowest possible duration of ephemeral reputation , marking it ( as with a ...
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... thoughts run one way , some another , and are held to and observe differently the things that pass through their imagina- tion . And whereas in this succession of thoughts there is nothing to ob- serve in the things they think on , but ...
... thoughts run one way , some another , and are held to and observe differently the things that pass through their imagina- tion . And whereas in this succession of thoughts there is nothing to ob- serve in the things they think on , but ...
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... thought to be to truth , it is not unusual to say of any person- " Such a one is a man of sense , for though he said nothing , he laughed in the right place . " - Alliteration comes in here under the head of a certain sort of verbal wit ...
... thought to be to truth , it is not unusual to say of any person- " Such a one is a man of sense , for though he said nothing , he laughed in the right place . " - Alliteration comes in here under the head of a certain sort of verbal wit ...
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... , in proportion as the thought suggested is more com- plete and satisfactory , from its being inherent in the nature of Truth the things themselves . Hæret lateri lethalis arundo . LECTURE 1. ] 21 ON WIT AND HUMOUR .
... , in proportion as the thought suggested is more com- plete and satisfactory , from its being inherent in the nature of Truth the things themselves . Hæret lateri lethalis arundo . LECTURE 1. ] 21 ON WIT AND HUMOUR .
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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.