Lectures on the English Comic WritersWiley and Putnam, 1845 - 222 sivua |
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... laugh at a thing , its absurdity must at least be open and palpa- ble to common apprehension . Ridicule is ... laughed in the right place . " - Alliteration comes in here under the head of a certain sort of verbal wit ; or , by pointing ...
... laugh at a thing , its absurdity must at least be open and palpa- ble to common apprehension . Ridicule is ... laughed in the right place . " - Alliteration comes in here under the head of a certain sort of verbal wit ; or , by pointing ...
Sivu 26
... laughter , we know what is the matter - that they are just come from a puppet - show . Who can see three little ... laughing immoderately ? We overlook the farce and mummery of human life in little , and for nothing ; and what is still ...
... laughter , we know what is the matter - that they are just come from a puppet - show . Who can see three little ... laughing immoderately ? We overlook the farce and mummery of human life in little , and for nothing ; and what is still ...
Sivu 28
... laughter without a cause , nor anything more troublesome than what are called laughing people . A professed laugher is as contemptible and tiresome a character as a professed wit : the one is always contriving something to laugh at ...
... laughter without a cause , nor anything more troublesome than what are called laughing people . A professed laugher is as contemptible and tiresome a character as a professed wit : the one is always contriving something to laugh at ...
Sivu 29
... laughter , and whim . But it cannot be denied that his plays are in general mere farces , without scrupulous adherence to nature , refinement of character , or common probability . The plots of several of them could not be carried on ...
... laughter , and whim . But it cannot be denied that his plays are in general mere farces , without scrupulous adherence to nature , refinement of character , or common probability . The plots of several of them could not be carried on ...
Sivu 31
... laughing at the world and enjoying it by turns , and making the world laugh with him again , for the last three hundred years , at his teeming wit and its own prolific follies . Even to those who have never read his works , the name of ...
... laughing at the world and enjoying it by turns , and making the world laugh with him again , for the last three hundred years , at his teeming wit and its own prolific follies . Even to those who have never read his works , the name of ...
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Sivu 7 - Never, lago. Like to the Pontic sea, Whose icy current and compulsive course Ne'er feels retiring ebb, but keeps due on To the Propontic and the Hellespont ; Even so my bloody thoughts, with violent pace, Shall ne'er look back, ne'er ebb to humble love. Till that a capable and wide revenge Swallow them up. — Now, by yond marble heaven, In the due reverence of a sacred vow {Kneels, I here engage my words.
Sivu 145 - I thought of Chatterton, the marvellous Boy, The sleepless Soul that perished in his pride; Of Him who walked in glory and in joy Following his plough, along the mountain-side : By our own spirits are we deified : We poets in our youth begin in gladness; But thereof come in the end despondency and madness.
Sivu 5 - The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven ; And, as imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing A local habitation, and a name. Such tricks hath strong imagination, That, if it would but apprehend some joy, It comprehends some bringer of that joy; Or, in the night, imagining some fear, How easy is a bush supposed a bear ! Hip.
Sivu 107 - Attract his slender feet. The foodless wilds Pour forth their brown inhabitants. The hare, Though timorous of heart, and hard beset By death in various forms, dark snares, and dogs, And more unpitying men, the garden seeks, Urged on by fearless want.
Sivu 73 - From Heaven they fabled, thrown by angry Jove Sheer o'er the crystal battlements: from morn To noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve, A summer's day; and with the setting sun Dropt from the zenith, like a falling star, On Lemnos, the Aegean isle.
Sivu 88 - Tis with our judgments as our watches, none Go just alike, yet each believes his own.
Sivu 208 - Two of far nobler shape, erect and tall, Godlike erect, with native honour clad In naked majesty, seem'd lords of all ; And worthy seem'd : for in their looks divine The image of their glorious Maker shone, Truth, wisdom, sanctitude severe and pure, Severe, but in true filial freedom...
Sivu 6 - O now, for ever, Farewell the tranquil mind ! Farewell content ! Farewell the plumed troop, and the big wars, That make ambition virtue ! O, farewell ! Farewell the neighing steed, and the shrill trump, The spirit-stirring drum, the ear-piercing fife, The royal banner ; and all quality. Pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious war...
Sivu 62 - Why so pale and wan, fond lover? Prithee, why so pale? Will, when looking well can't move her. Looking ill prevail? Prithee, why so pale?
Sivu 205 - And purple all the ground with vernal flowers. Bring the rathe primrose that forsaken dies, The tufted crow-toe and pale jessamine, The white pink, and the pansy...