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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... pleasure , and leaves no time nor inclination for painful reflections . The essence of the laughable then is the incongruous , the discon- necting one idea from another , or the jostling of one feeling against another . The first and ...
... pleasure , and leaves no time nor inclination for painful reflections . The essence of the laughable then is the incongruous , the discon- necting one idea from another , or the jostling of one feeling against another . The first and ...
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... uncertainty and vicissitude , and an heroic contempt for the untoward accidents and petty vexations of human life . It is the gaiety of despair , the mirth and laughter of a respite during pleasure from death . 13 ON WIT AND HUMOUR.
... uncertainty and vicissitude , and an heroic contempt for the untoward accidents and petty vexations of human life . It is the gaiety of despair , the mirth and laughter of a respite during pleasure from death . 13 ON WIT AND HUMOUR.
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... pleasure and idle gallantry . Half the business and gaiety of comedy turns upon this . Most of the adventures , difficulties , demurs , hair - breadth ' scapes , disguises , decep- tions , blunders , disappointments , successes ...
... pleasure and idle gallantry . Half the business and gaiety of comedy turns upon this . Most of the adventures , difficulties , demurs , hair - breadth ' scapes , disguises , decep- tions , blunders , disappointments , successes ...
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... pleasure or pain ; for as soon as it describes the serious seriously , it ceases to be wit , and passes into a different form . Wit is , in fact , the eloquence of indifference , or an ingenious and striking exposition of those ...
... pleasure or pain ; for as soon as it describes the serious seriously , it ceases to be wit , and passes into a different form . Wit is , in fact , the eloquence of indifference , or an ingenious and striking exposition of those ...
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... pleasure and power wait on every line and word : whereas , in the other , the only memorable thing is a grotesque and ludicrous illustration of the alteration which takes place from darkness to gorgeous light , and that brought from the ...
... pleasure and power wait on every line and word : whereas , in the other , the only memorable thing is a grotesque and ludicrous illustration of the alteration which takes place from darkness to gorgeous light , and that brought from the ...
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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...