Lectures on the English Comic WritersJ. Templeman, 1841 - 392 sivua |
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... ( Essay , vol . i , p . 143. ) This definition , such as it is , Mr Locke took without acknowledgment from Hobbes , who says in his Leviathan , ' " This difference of quickness in imagin- ing is caused by the difference of men's passions ...
... ( Essay , vol . i , p . 143. ) This definition , such as it is , Mr Locke took without acknowledgment from Hobbes , who says in his Leviathan , ' " This difference of quickness in imagin- ing is caused by the difference of men's passions ...
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... Essays , as those on ' Liberty ' and ' Retirement , ' are ex- ceedingly good . The Odes to Vandyke , to the Royal Society , to Hobbes , and to the latter Brutus , beginning " Excellent Brutus , " are all * See his Lives of the British ...
... Essays , as those on ' Liberty ' and ' Retirement , ' are ex- ceedingly good . The Odes to Vandyke , to the Royal Society , to Hobbes , and to the latter Brutus , beginning " Excellent Brutus , " are all * See his Lives of the British ...
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... Essays are among the most agree- able prose compositions in our language , being equally recommended by sense , wit , learning , and interesting personal history , and written in a style quite free from the faults of his poetry . It is ...
... Essays are among the most agree- able prose compositions in our language , being equally recommended by sense , wit , learning , and interesting personal history , and written in a style quite free from the faults of his poetry . It is ...
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... Essays led the way to this kind of writing among the moderns . The great merit of Montaigne then was , that he may be said to have been the first who had the courage to say as an author what he felt as a man . And as courage is ...
... Essays led the way to this kind of writing among the moderns . The great merit of Montaigne then was , that he may be said to have been the first who had the courage to say as an author what he felt as a man . And as courage is ...
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... Essays : there is a germ , at least , and generally much more . He sowed the seed and cleared away the rubbish , even where others have reaped the fruit , or cultivated and decorated the soil to a greater degree of nicety and perfection ...
... Essays : there is a germ , at least , and generally much more . He sowed the seed and cleared away the rubbish , even where others have reaped the fruit , or cultivated and decorated the soil to a greater degree of nicety and perfection ...
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absurdity admiration affectation amusing appearance beauty Ben Jonson Brass character comedy comic writers common Congreve critical delight Dick Don Quixote double entendre Dr Johnson dramatic dress elegance Epicene equally Essays excellence extravagance eyes face fancy farce feeling folly genius Gil Blas give grace Hazlitt heart Hogarth Hudibras human nature idea imagination imitation insipid instance interest invention Lady laugh lively look Lord lover ludicrous manners Millamant mind mistress Montaigne moral novel object observation original painted passion person piece play pleasure plot poet poetry PORTLAND STREET racters Rake's Progress reason refinement ridiculous romantic satire scene School for Scandal seems sense sentiment serious Serjeant Talfourd Shakspeare sort Spectator spirit stage story striking style Tartuffe Tatler TEMPLEMAN thee things thought tion Tom Jones truth turn vice vulgar whole wife WILLIAM HAZLITT words Wycherley