Lectures on the English Comic WritersJ. Templeman, 1841 - 392 sivua |
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... art and fancy . Humour , as it is shown in books , is an imitation of the natural or acquired absurdities of mankind , or of the ludicrous in accident , situation , and character ; wit is the illustrating and ON WIT AND HUMOUR . 23.
... art and fancy . Humour , as it is shown in books , is an imitation of the natural or acquired absurdities of mankind , or of the ludicrous in accident , situation , and character ; wit is the illustrating and ON WIT AND HUMOUR . 23.
Sivu 45
... imitate humanity most abominably , " without laughing immoderately ? We overlook the farce and mummery of human life in little , and for nothing ; and what is still better , it costs them who have to play in it nothing . We place the ...
... imitate humanity most abominably , " without laughing immoderately ? We overlook the farce and mummery of human life in little , and for nothing ; and what is still better , it costs them who have to play in it nothing . We place the ...
Sivu 74
... imitation and custom . Shakspeare takes his groundwork in individual character and the manners of his age , and ... imitations of her , and he ap- pears to receive her bounty like an alms . His works read like translations , from a ...
... imitation and custom . Shakspeare takes his groundwork in individual character and the manners of his age , and ... imitations of her , and he ap- pears to receive her bounty like an alms . His works read like translations , from a ...
Sivu 103
... imitations . Sir John Davies is the author of a poem on the Soul , and of one on Dancing . In both he shows great ingenuity , and sometimes terseness and vigour . In the last of these two poems his fancy pirouettes in a very lively and ...
... imitations . Sir John Davies is the author of a poem on the Soul , and of one on Dancing . In both he shows great ingenuity , and sometimes terseness and vigour . In the last of these two poems his fancy pirouettes in a very lively and ...
Sivu 122
... imitations of them in Butler . He fulfils every one of Barrow's conditions of wit , which I have enumerated in the first Lecture . He makes you laugh or smile by comparing the high to the low , † or by pretend- ing to raise the low to ...
... imitations of them in Butler . He fulfils every one of Barrow's conditions of wit , which I have enumerated in the first Lecture . He makes you laugh or smile by comparing the high to the low , † or by pretend- ing to raise the low to ...
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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