Lectures on the English Comic WritersWiley and Putnam, 1845 - 222 sivua |
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... speak- ing of certain religious hypocrites , he says , that they - " Compound for sins they are inclined to By damning those they have no mind to ; " but the wit consists in the truth of the character , and in the hap- py exposure of ...
... speak- ing of certain religious hypocrites , he says , that they - " Compound for sins they are inclined to By damning those they have no mind to ; " but the wit consists in the truth of the character , and in the hap- py exposure of ...
Sivu 20
... Speaking of some minis ters whom he did not like , he said , " Their only means of government are the guinea and the gallows . " There can scarcely , it must be confessed , be a more effectual mode of political conversion than one of ...
... Speaking of some minis ters whom he did not like , he said , " Their only means of government are the guinea and the gallows . " There can scarcely , it must be confessed , be a more effectual mode of political conversion than one of ...
Sivu 21
... speak here- after . It is not always easy to distinguish between the wit of words and that of things , " For thin partitions do their bounds divide . " Some of the late Mr. Curran's bon mots , or jeux d'es- prit , might be said to owe ...
... speak here- after . It is not always easy to distinguish between the wit of words and that of things , " For thin partitions do their bounds divide . " Some of the late Mr. Curran's bon mots , or jeux d'es- prit , might be said to owe ...
Sivu 22
... speaking of the difference between wit and humour , that wit is often pretended absurdity , where the person overacts or exaggerates a certain part with a conscious design to expose it as if it were another person , as when Mandrake in ...
... speaking of the difference between wit and humour , that wit is often pretended absurdity , where the person overacts or exaggerates a certain part with a conscious design to expose it as if it were another person , as when Mandrake in ...
Sivu 23
... speaking , or taking the ex- tremes to judge of the gradations by ) appeal to our indolence , our vanity , our weakness , and insensibility ; serious and impas- sioned poetry appeals to our strength , our magnanimity , our vir- tue ...
... speaking , or taking the ex- tremes to judge of the gradations by ) appeal to our indolence , our vanity , our weakness , and insensibility ; serious and impas- sioned poetry appeals to our strength , our magnanimity , our vir- tue ...
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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.