Lectures on the English Comic WritersWiley and Putnam, 1845 - 222 sivua |
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... circumstances , and the absurdity or unaccountableness of a foolish action is the most striking thing in it , the ludicrous prevails over the pathetic , and we receive pleasure instead of pain from the farce of life which is played ...
... circumstances , and the absurdity or unaccountableness of a foolish action is the most striking thing in it , the ludicrous prevails over the pathetic , and we receive pleasure instead of pain from the farce of life which is played ...
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... circumstance that interferes with the solemnity of the proceedings throws the whole place into an uproar of laugh ter . People at the point of death often say smart things . Sir Thomas More jested with his executioner : Rabelais and ...
... circumstance that interferes with the solemnity of the proceedings throws the whole place into an uproar of laugh ter . People at the point of death often say smart things . Sir Thomas More jested with his executioner : Rabelais and ...
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... circumstances . To give an instance or two . Butler , in his ' Hudibras , ' compares the change of night into day to the change of colour in a boiled lobster . " The sun had long since , in the lap Of Thetis , taken out his nap ; And ...
... circumstances . To give an instance or two . Butler , in his ' Hudibras , ' compares the change of night into day to the change of colour in a boiled lobster . " The sun had long since , in the lap Of Thetis , taken out his nap ; And ...
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... circumstances are shown through an atmos- phere of abstraction that dignifies them ; their very insignifi- cance makes them more affecting , for they instantly put a check on our aspiring thoughts , and remind us that , seen through ...
... circumstances are shown through an atmos- phere of abstraction that dignifies them ; their very insignifi- cance makes them more affecting , for they instantly put a check on our aspiring thoughts , and remind us that , seen through ...
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... circumstances , so it requires actual observation , and an acquaintance with the modes of arti- ficial life , to describe it with the utmost possible grace and pre- cision . Congreve , who had every other opportunity , was but a young ...
... circumstances , so it requires actual observation , and an acquaintance with the modes of arti- ficial life , to describe it with the utmost possible grace and pre- cision . Congreve , who had every other opportunity , was but a young ...
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absurdity admiration affectation appearance artificial beauty Beggar's Opera Ben Jonson blank verse Boccaccio character Chaucer circumstances comedy comic common critics delight describes Don Quixote double entendre dramatic elegance equal excellence face fancy feeling flowers folly genius Gil Blas give grace heart Hogarth Hudibras human humour idea imagination imitation instance interest kind Lady language laugh less light living look Lord Byron lover ludicrous Lycidas Lyrical Ballads manners Milton mind moral Muse nature never objects painted passion person picture play pleasure poem poet poetical poetry Pope prose reader reason refinement ridiculous satire scene School for Scandal seems sense sentiment Shakspeare Shakspeare's sort soul Spenser spirit story style sweet Tartuffe Tatler thee things thou thought tion Tom Jones truth turn verse vice whole wild words Wordsworth writer
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Sivu 116 - The warbling woodland, the resounding shore, The pomp of groves, and garniture of fields; All that the genial ray of morning gilds, And all that echoes to the song of even, All that the mountain's sheltering bosom shields, And all the dread magnificence of heaven, O how canst thou renounce, and hope to be forgiven ! X.
Sivu 133 - At thirty man suspects himself a fool ; Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan ; At fifty chides his infamous delay, Pushes his prudent purpose to resolve; In all the magnanimity of thought Resolves and re-resolves; then dies the same.
Sivu 187 - But Nature, in due course of time, once more Shall here put on her beauty and her bloom. "She leaves these objects to a slow decay, That what we are, and have been, may be known ; But at the coming of the milder day These monuments shall all be overgrown.
Sivu 74 - What though the field be lost? All is not lost; the unconquerable will, And study of revenge, immortal hate, And courage never to submit or yield: And what is else not to be overcome?
Sivu 132 - tis madness to defer: Next day the fatal precedent will plead ; Thus on, till wisdom is push'd out of life. Procrastination is the thief of time ; Year after year it steals, till all are fled, And to the mercies of a moment leaves The vast concerns of an eternal scene.
Sivu 91 - Villiers lies — alas ! how changed from him, That life of pleasure, and that soul of whim ! Gallant and gay, in Cliveden's proud alcove, The bower of wanton Shrewsbury and love ; Or just as gay at council, in a ring Of mimic statesmen and their merry King.
Sivu 189 - The heavens themselves, the planets, and this centre, Observe degree, priority, and place, Insisture, course, proportion, season, form, Office, and custom, in all line of order...
Sivu 96 - By a daisy whose leaves spread Shut when Titan goes to bed ; Or a shady bush or tree, She could more infuse in me, Than all Nature's beauties can, In some other wiser man.
Sivu 158 - Kate soon will be a woefu' woman! Now, do thy speedy utmost, Meg, And win the key-stane of the brig; There, at them thou thy tail may toss, A running stream they dare na cross! But ere the key-stane she could make, The fient a tail she had to shake: For Nannie, far before the rest, Hard upon noble Maggie prest, And flew at Tam wi' furious ettle; But little wist she Maggie's mettle!
Sivu 193 - Alas! they had been friends in youth; But whispering tongues can poison truth; And constancy lives in realms above; And life is thorny; and youth is vain; And to be wroth with one we love Doth work like madness in the brain.