Lectures on the English Comic WritersWiley and Putnam, 1845 - 222 sivua |
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... passes into a different form . Wit is , in fact , the eloquence of in- difference , or an ingenious and striking exposition of those eva- nescent and glancing impressions of objects which affect us more from surprise or contrast to the ...
... passes into a different form . Wit is , in fact , the eloquence of in- difference , or an ingenious and striking exposition of those eva- nescent and glancing impressions of objects which affect us more from surprise or contrast to the ...
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... 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 either in what they be like one another , or in what they be unlike , those that observe their ...
... 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 either in what they be like one another , or in what they be unlike , those that observe their ...
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... pass for wit without the allite- ration , as some poetry would hardly be acknowledged as such without the rhyme to clench it . A quotation or a hackneyed phrase , dexterously turned or wrested to another purpose , has often the effect ...
... pass for wit without the allite- ration , as some poetry would hardly be acknowledged as such without the rhyme to clench it . A quotation or a hackneyed phrase , dexterously turned or wrested to another purpose , has often the effect ...
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... pass off as the most pardonable offence against the gravity of his pretensions . It is in fact the established rule at present , in these cases , to speak highly of the Doctor's authority , and to dissent from almost every one of his ...
... pass off as the most pardonable offence against the gravity of his pretensions . It is in fact the established rule at present , in these cases , to speak highly of the Doctor's authority , and to dissent from almost every one of his ...
Sivu 48
... passing jest , Ben Jonson would set about building a whole play upon . The directions for making love given by Truewit , the author's favourite , discover great know- ledge and shrewdness of observation , mixed with the acuteness of ...
... passing jest , Ben Jonson would set about building a whole play upon . The directions for making love given by Truewit , the author's favourite , discover great know- ledge and shrewdness of observation , mixed with the acuteness of ...
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absurdity admiration affectation amusing appearance artificial beauty Beggar's Opera Ben Jonson better blank verse Boccaccio character Chaucer circumstances comedy comic common critics delight describes Don Quixote double entendre dramatic elegance equal excellence face fancy feeling flowers folly genius Gil Blas give grace heart Hogarth Hudibras human humour idea imagination imitation instance interest kind Lady language laugh light lively look Lord Byron lover ludicrous Lycidas Lyrical Ballads manners Milton mind moral Muse nature never objects painted passion person picture play pleasure poem poet poetical poetry Pope prose reader refinement ridiculous satire scene School for Scandal seems sense sentiment Shakspeare Shakspeare's sort soul Spenser spirit story style sweet Tartuffe Tatler thee things thou thought tion Tom Jones truth turn verse vice whole wild words Wordsworth writer