Lectures on the English Comic WritersJ. Templeman, 1841 - 392 sivua |
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... Mayor's show- " Now night descending , the proud scene is o'er ; But lives in Settle's numbers one day more . " This is certainly as mortifying an inversion of the idea of poetical immortality as could be thought of ON WIT AND HUMOUR . 29.
... Mayor's show- " Now night descending , the proud scene is o'er ; But lives in Settle's numbers one day more . " This is certainly as mortifying an inversion of the idea of poetical immortality as could be thought of ON WIT AND HUMOUR . 29.
Sivu 59
... to the opinion here combated , even though he might do that as well as anybody else , unless he could do it better than anybody else . I would not be understood to say that there are not scenes or whole ON SHAKSPEARE AND BEN JONSON . 59.
... to the opinion here combated , even though he might do that as well as anybody else , unless he could do it better than anybody else . I would not be understood to say that there are not scenes or whole ON SHAKSPEARE AND BEN JONSON . 59.
Sivu 60
William Hazlitt. understood to say that there are not scenes or whole characters in Shakspeare equal in wit and drollery to anything upon record . Falstaff alone is an instance which , if I would , I could not get over . " He is the ...
William Hazlitt. understood to say that there are not scenes or whole characters in Shakspeare equal in wit and drollery to anything upon record . Falstaff alone is an instance which , if I would , I could not get over . " He is the ...
Sivu 62
... scenes in both parts of Henry IV . Nothing can go much lower in intellect or morals than many of the characters . Here are knaves and fools in abundance , of the meanest order , and stripped stark - naked . But genius , like charity ...
... scenes in both parts of Henry IV . Nothing can go much lower in intellect or morals than many of the characters . Here are knaves and fools in abundance , of the meanest order , and stripped stark - naked . But genius , like charity ...
Sivu 69
... scenes of Shakspeare's comedies are mostly laid in the country , or are transferable there at pleasure . The genteel comedy exists only in towns , and crowds of borrowed charac- ters , who copy others as the satirist copies them , and ...
... scenes of Shakspeare's comedies are mostly laid in the country , or are transferable there at pleasure . The genteel comedy exists only in towns , and crowds of borrowed charac- ters , who copy others as the satirist copies them , and ...
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