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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... whole charm , and puts an end to our admiration of the sublime or beautiful . Reading the finest passage in Milton's Paradise Lost in a false tone , will make it seem insipid and absurd . The cavilling at , or invidiously pointing out ...
... whole charm , and puts an end to our admiration of the sublime or beautiful . Reading the finest passage in Milton's Paradise Lost in a false tone , will make it seem insipid and absurd . The cavilling at , or invidiously pointing out ...
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... whole families in country places , to the great annoyance of their neighbours . To be struck with incongruity in whatever comes before us , does not argue great com- prehension or refinement of perception , but rather a looseness and ...
... whole families in country places , to the great annoyance of their neighbours . To be struck with incongruity in whatever comes before us , does not argue great com- prehension or refinement of perception , but rather a looseness and ...
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... whole characters in Shakspeare equal in wit and drollery to any thing upon record . Falstaff alone is an instance which , if I would , I could not get over . He is the leviathan of all the creatures of the author's comic genius , and ...
... whole characters in Shakspeare equal in wit and drollery to any thing upon record . Falstaff alone is an instance which , if I would , I could not get over . He is the leviathan of all the creatures of the author's comic genius , and ...
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... whole world kin : ' and old Double , though his exploits had been greater , could but have had his day . There is a pathetic naiveté mixed up with Shallow's common - place reflections and impertinent digressions . The reader laughs ( as ...
... whole world kin : ' and old Double , though his exploits had been greater , could but have had his day . There is a pathetic naiveté mixed up with Shallow's common - place reflections and impertinent digressions . The reader laughs ( as ...
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... whole story , from the beginning to the end , is a gratuitous assumption , and the height of improbability . The author , in sustaining the weight of his plot , seems like a balance - master who supports a number of people , piled one ...
... whole story , from the beginning to the end , is a gratuitous assumption , and the height of improbability . The author , in sustaining the weight of his plot , seems like a balance - master who supports a number of people , piled one ...
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
absurdity actor admirable appeared audience beauty Beggar's Opera Ben Jonson better character Charles Kemble comedy comic Coriolanus Country Wife Covent Covent-Garden criticism delight Don Quixote dramatic Drury-Lane effect English equal excellence expression eyes face fancy farce favourite feeling folly genius gentleman give grace Hamlet Hazlitt heart Hogarth Hudibras human humour Iago imagination imitation interest Kean Kean's Kemble Kemble's Lady laugh look Lord lover ludicrous Macbeth manner mind Miss Kelly Miss O'Neill moral nature never night Opera Othello pantomime passion performance person piece play pleasure poet poetry Richard ridiculous scene School for Scandal seems sense sentiment Shakespear shew Shylock singing song soul speak spirit stage story style supposed taste Tatler Theatre theatrical thing thou thought Tom Jones tone tragedy truth Twelfth Night voice whole wife words writer young
Beliebte Passagen
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...