Lectures on the English Comic WritersWiley and Putnam, 1845 - 222 sivua |
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Sivu 8
... line , branching out in all directions , shows the inveteracy of the original bias to any extravagance or folly , the natural improbability , as it were , increasing every time with the multiplication of chances for a 1 return to common ...
... line , branching out in all directions , shows the inveteracy of the original bias to any extravagance or folly , the natural improbability , as it were , increasing every time with the multiplication of chances for a 1 return to common ...
Sivu 14
... lines with Stanhope's pencil writ . " But then the mode of paying it is playful and ironical , and con- tradicts itself in the very act of making its own performance an humble foil to another's . Wit hovers round the borders of the ...
... lines with Stanhope's pencil writ . " But then the mode of paying it is playful and ironical , and con- tradicts itself in the very act of making its own performance an humble foil to another's . Wit hovers round the borders of the ...
Sivu 17
... lines of the same author , where he is professing to expound the dreams of judicial astrology . " There's but a twinkling of a star Betwixt a man of peace and war , A thief and justice , fool and knave , A huffing officer and a slave ...
... lines of the same author , where he is professing to expound the dreams of judicial astrology . " There's but a twinkling of a star Betwixt a man of peace and war , A thief and justice , fool and knave , A huffing officer and a slave ...
Sivu 20
... went and laid it out to buy a new string for a guitar . An old acquaintance , on hearing this story , repeated those lines out of the ' Allegro'— * " And ever against eating cares Lap me in soft 20 [ LECTURE 1 . ON WIT AND HUMOUR .
... went and laid it out to buy a new string for a guitar . An old acquaintance , on hearing this story , repeated those lines out of the ' Allegro'— * " And ever against eating cares Lap me in soft 20 [ LECTURE 1 . ON WIT AND HUMOUR .
Sivu 25
... lines in Pope— ter is sense , " Tis with our judgments as our watches , none Go just alike ; yet each believes his own- " are witty rather than poetical ; because the truth they convey is a mere dry observation on human life , without ...
... lines in Pope— ter is sense , " Tis with our judgments as our watches , none Go just alike ; yet each believes his own- " are witty rather than poetical ; because the truth they convey is a mere dry observation on human life , without ...
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