Lectures on the English Comic WritersJ. Templeman, 1841 - 392 sivua |
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... grace to Mrs Amlet's confession " Though I'm old , I'm chaste . " Valentine and his Angelica would be nothing without it ; Miss Peggy would not be worth a gallant ; and Slender's ' sweet Anne Page ' would be no more ! " The age of ...
... grace to Mrs Amlet's confession " Though I'm old , I'm chaste . " Valentine and his Angelica would be nothing without it ; Miss Peggy would not be worth a gallant ; and Slender's ' sweet Anne Page ' would be no more ! " The age of ...
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... grace , " though there is here a great deal of humour , there is no wit . This kind of wit of the humourist , where the person makes a butt of himself , and exhibits his own absurdities or foibles purposely in the most pointed and ...
... grace , " though there is here a great deal of humour , there is no wit . This kind of wit of the humourist , where the person makes a butt of himself , and exhibits his own absurdities or foibles purposely in the most pointed and ...
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... grace and precision . Congreve , who had every other opportunity , was but a young man when he wrote this character ; and that makes the miracle the greater . I do not , in short , consider comedy as exactly an affair of the heart or ...
... grace and precision . Congreve , who had every other opportunity , was but a young man when he wrote this character ; and that makes the miracle the greater . I do not , in short , consider comedy as exactly an affair of the heart or ...
Sivu 99
... grace and nature ; tried to do without , or else constantly to thwart her ; left nothing to her outward " impress , " or spontaneous im- pulses , but made a point of twisting and tor- turing almost every subject they took in hand , till ...
... grace and nature ; tried to do without , or else constantly to thwart her ; left nothing to her outward " impress , " or spontaneous im- pulses , but made a point of twisting and tor- turing almost every subject they took in hand , till ...
Sivu 101
... grace in the sentiment itself— " For ' tis my outward soul , Viceroy'to that , which unto heaven being gone , Will leave this to control , And keep these limbs , her provinces , from dissolution . " Again , the following lines , the ...
... grace in the sentiment itself— " For ' tis my outward soul , Viceroy'to that , which unto heaven being gone , Will leave this to control , And keep these limbs , her provinces , from dissolution . " Again , the following lines , the ...
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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