The Collected Works of William Hazlitt: Lectures on the English comic writers. A view of the English stage. Dramatic essays from 'The London magazine.'J.M. Dent & Company, 1903 |
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... becomes the pathetic or tragical . The ludicrous , or comic , is the unexpected loosening or relaxing this stress below its usual pitch of intensity , by such an abrupt transposition of the order of our ideas , as taking the mind ...
... becomes the pathetic or tragical . The ludicrous , or comic , is the unexpected loosening or relaxing this stress below its usual pitch of intensity , by such an abrupt transposition of the order of our ideas , as taking the mind ...
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... become sufficiently ludicrous.- We laugh at that in others which is a serious matter to ourselves ; because our self - love is stronger than our sympathy , sooner takes the alarm , and instantly turns our heedless mirth into gravity ...
... become sufficiently ludicrous.- We laugh at that in others which is a serious matter to ourselves ; because our self - love is stronger than our sympathy , sooner takes the alarm , and instantly turns our heedless mirth into gravity ...
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... become a good scholar : he is at Oxford still , is he not ? Silence . Indeed , Sir , to my cost . Shallow . He must then to the Inns of Court shortly . I was once of Clement's - Inn ; where , I think , they will talk of mad Shallow yet ...
... become a good scholar : he is at Oxford still , is he not ? Silence . Indeed , Sir , to my cost . Shallow . He must then to the Inns of Court shortly . I was once of Clement's - Inn ; where , I think , they will talk of mad Shallow yet ...
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... becomes the ape of the extravagances of other men . The keenest edge of satire is required to distinguish between the true and false pretensions to taste and elegance ; its lash is laid on with the ... become 35 ON SHAKSPEARE AND BEN JONSON.
... becomes the ape of the extravagances of other men . The keenest edge of satire is required to distinguish between the true and false pretensions to taste and elegance ; its lash is laid on with the ... become 35 ON SHAKSPEARE AND BEN JONSON.
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... become the fashion , and in which the swarms of egregious pretenders in both kinds openly kept one another in countenance , and were become a public nuisance . Shakspeare , living in a state of greater rudeness and simplicity , chiefly ...
... become the fashion , and in which the swarms of egregious pretenders in both kinds openly kept one another in countenance , and were become a public nuisance . Shakspeare , living in a state of greater rudeness and simplicity , chiefly ...
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Seite 512 - Shakspeare, that, take him for all in all, we shall not look upon his like again.
Seite 210 - O, here Will I set up my everlasting rest And shake the yoke of inauspicious stars From this world-wearied flesh.
Seite 207 - I have liv'd long enough : my way of life Is fallen into the sear, the yellow leaf : And that which should accompany old age, As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends, I must not look to have ; but, in their stead, Curses not loud, but deep, mouth-honour, breath, Which the poor heart would fain deny, and dare not.
Seite 55 - 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?
Seite 450 - Methinks I should know you and know this man; yet I am doubtful: for I am mainly ignorant what place this is, and all the skill I have remembers not these garments; nor I know not where I did lodge last night.
Seite 449 - Tom? whom the foul fiend hath led through fire and through flame, through ford and whirlpool, o'er bog and quagmire; that hath laid knives under his pillow, and halters in his pew...
Seite 471 - Man, proud man, Drest in a little brief authority, Plays such fantastic tricks before high Heaven As make the angels weep.
Seite 276 - All schooldays' friendship, childhood innocence? We, Hermia, like two artificial gods Have with our needles created both one flower, Both on one sampler, sitting on one cushion, Both warbling of one song, both in one key, As if our hands, our sides, voices, and minds Had been incorporate. So we grew together Like to a double cherry, seeming parted But yet an union in partition...
Seite 19 - Wit lying most in the assemblage of Ideas, and putting those together with quickness and variety, wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant Pictures, and agreeable Visions in the fancy...
Seite 16 - The sun had long since, in the lap Of Thetis, taken out his nap, And, like a lobster boil'd, the morn From black to red began to turn...