Lectures on the English Comic WritersJ. Templeman, 1841 - 392 sivua |
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Sivu 9
... never saw him before . Any one dressed in the height of the fashion , or quite out of it , is equally an object of ridicule . One rich source of the ludicrous is distress with which we cannot sympathise from its absurdity or ...
... never saw him before . Any one dressed in the height of the fashion , or quite out of it , is equally an object of ridicule . One rich source of the ludicrous is distress with which we cannot sympathise from its absurdity or ...
Sivu 26
... never wet , But firm is fix'd and sendeth light from far To all that in the wide deep wand'ring are : And cheerful chanticleer with his note shrill , Had warned once that Phoebus ' fiery car In haste was climbing up the eastern hill ...
... never wet , But firm is fix'd and sendeth light from far To all that in the wide deep wand'ring are : And cheerful chanticleer with his note shrill , Had warned once that Phoebus ' fiery car In haste was climbing up the eastern hill ...
Sivu 44
... - viable exertion of human genius it is the dis- covering a truth to which there is no clue , and which , when once found out , can never be for- gotten . I would rather have been the author of 44 ON WIT AND HUMOUR .
... - viable exertion of human genius it is the dis- covering a truth to which there is no clue , and which , when once found out , can never be for- gotten . I would rather have been the author of 44 ON WIT AND HUMOUR .
Sivu 55
... Even to those who have never read his works , the name of Rabelais is a cordial to the spirits , and the mention of it cannot consist with gravity or spleen ! LECTURE II . ON SHAKSPEARE AND BEN JONSON . DR ON WIT AND HUMOUR . 55.
... Even to those who have never read his works , the name of Rabelais is a cordial to the spirits , and the mention of it cannot consist with gravity or spleen ! LECTURE II . ON SHAKSPEARE AND BEN JONSON . DR ON WIT AND HUMOUR . 55.
Sivu 62
... never broken . Who would quarrel with Wart , or Feeble , or Mouldy , or Bull - calf , or even with Pistol , Nym , or Bar- dolph ? None but a hypocrite . The severe censurers of the morals of imaginary cha- racters can generally find a ...
... never broken . Who would quarrel with Wart , or Feeble , or Mouldy , or Bull - calf , or even with Pistol , Nym , or Bar- dolph ? None but a hypocrite . The severe censurers of the morals of imaginary cha- racters can generally find a ...
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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