Lectures on the English Comic WritersWiley and Putnam, 1845 - 222 sivua |
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... critics - not the inflic- tion of casual pain , but the pursuit of uncertain pleasure and idle gallantry . Half the business and gaiety of comedy turns upon this . Most of the adventures , difficulties , demurs , hair - breadth ' scapes ...
... critics - not the inflic- tion of casual pain , but the pursuit of uncertain pleasure and idle gallantry . Half the business and gaiety of comedy turns upon this . Most of the adventures , difficulties , demurs , hair - breadth ' scapes ...
Sivu 23
... critics are aware of this vice and infirmity in our nature , and play upon it with periodical The meanest weapons are strong enough for this kind of warfare , and the meanest hands can wield them . Spleen can subsist on any kind of food ...
... critics are aware of this vice and infirmity in our nature , and play upon it with periodical The meanest weapons are strong enough for this kind of warfare , and the meanest hands can wield them . Spleen can subsist on any kind of food ...
Sivu 30
... criticism . - The same remarks apply in a greater degree to the ' Tartuffe . ' The long speeches and rea- sonings in this play tire one almost to death : they may be very good logic , or rhetoric , or philosophy , or anything but comedy ...
... criticism . - The same remarks apply in a greater degree to the ' Tartuffe . ' The long speeches and rea- sonings in this play tire one almost to death : they may be very good logic , or rhetoric , or philosophy , or anything but comedy ...
Sivu 32
... critic in reading them , that is , his general indisposition to sympathise heartily and spontaneously with works of high - wrought passion or ima- gination . There is not in any part of this author's writings the slightest trace of his ...
... critic in reading them , that is , his general indisposition to sympathise heartily and spontaneously with works of high - wrought passion or ima- gination . There is not in any part of this author's writings the slightest trace of his ...
Sivu 55
... criticism has rightly denominated poetry Texvn μiμntıkò , an imitative art , these writers will , without great ... critic . The writers here referred to ( such as Donne , Davies , Cra- shaw , and others ) not merely mistook learning for ...
... criticism has rightly denominated poetry Texvn μiμntıkò , an imitative art , these writers will , without great ... critic . The writers here referred to ( such as Donne , Davies , Cra- shaw , and others ) not merely mistook learning for ...
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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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Sivu 37 - tis certain ; very sure, very sure : death, as the Psalmist saith, is certain to all ; all shall die.
Sivu 24 - The hedge-sparrow fed the cuckoo so long, That it had its head bit off by its young.
Sivu 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?
Sivu 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.
Sivu 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...
Sivu 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...
Sivu 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...
Sivu 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
Sivu 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.
Sivu 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.