Lectures on the English Comic Writers: Delivered at the Surry InstitutionTaylor and Hessey, 1819 - 343 Seiten |
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... " There is another source of comic humour which has been but little touched on or attended to by the critics - not the infliction of casual pain , 1 but the pursuit of uncertain pleasure and idle gal- 20 ON WIT AND HUMOUR .
... " There is another source of comic humour which has been but little touched on or attended to by the critics - not the infliction of casual pain , 1 but the pursuit of uncertain pleasure and idle gal- 20 ON WIT AND HUMOUR .
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... critics are aware of this vice and infirmity in our nature , and play upon it with periodical success . The meanest weapons are strong enough for this kind of warfare , and the meanest hands can wield them . Spleen can subsist on any ...
... critics are aware of this vice and infirmity in our nature , and play upon it with periodical success . The meanest weapons are strong enough for this kind of warfare , and the meanest hands can wield them . Spleen can subsist on any ...
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... criticism . The same remarks apply in a greater degree to the Tartuffe . The long speeches and reasonings in this play tire one almost to death : they may be very good logic , or rhetoric , or phi- losophy , or any thing but comedy . If ...
... criticism . The same remarks apply in a greater degree to the Tartuffe . The long speeches and reasonings in this play tire one almost to death : they may be very good logic , or rhetoric , or phi- losophy , or any thing but comedy . If ...
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... critic in reading them , that is , his gene- ral indisposition to sympathise heartily and spon- taneously with works of high - wrought passion or imagination . There is not in any part of this author's writings the slightest trace of ...
... critic in reading them , that is , his gene- ral indisposition to sympathise heartily and spon- taneously with works of high - wrought passion or imagination . There is not in any part of this author's writings the slightest trace of ...
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... by counting the syllables . " If the father of criticism has rightly de- nominated poetry τεχνη μιμητική , an imitative art , these writers will , without great wrong , lose their LECTURE III ON COWLEY, Butler, SUCKLING, ETHEREGE, &c ·
... by counting the syllables . " If the father of criticism has rightly de- nominated poetry τεχνη μιμητική , an imitative art , these writers will , without great wrong , lose their LECTURE III ON COWLEY, Butler, SUCKLING, ETHEREGE, &c ·
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absurdity admirable affectation amusing appearance beautiful Beggar's Opera Ben Jonson better Brass burlesque Caleb Williams character colour comedy common Congreve Conscious Lovers delightful Dick Don Quixote dramatic elegance Encyclopædia Epicene equal excellent eyes face Falstaff fancy farce feeling folly genius Gil Blas give grace heart Hogarth Hudibras human idea imagination imitation instance interest invention kind Lady laugh lively look Lord lover ludicrous manners ment metaphysical poets Millamant mind moral nature ness never novel object observation original painted passion person play pleasure poet poetry pretensions racter Rake's Progress reason refinement ridiculous romantic satire scene School for Scandal seems sense sentiment serious Shakspeare Shakspeare's shew sort Spectator spirit stage story style Tartuffe Tatler thee thing thou thought tion Tom Jones truth turn vice Volpone whole wife words Wycherley
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Seite 41 - The hedge-sparrow fed the cuckoo so long, That it had its head bit off by its young.
Seite 45 - ... sometimes it lurketh under an odd similitude ; sometimes it is lodged in a sly question, in a smart answer, in a quirkish reason, in a shrewd intimation, in cunningly diverting or cleverly retorting an objection ; sometimes it is couched in a bold scheme of speech, in a tart irony, in a lusty hyperbole, in a startling metaphor, in a plausible reconciling of contradictions, or in acute nonsense...
Seite 86 - I'll change All that is metal, in my house, to gold : And early in the morning will I send To all the plumbers and the pewterers, And buy their tin and lead up ; and to Lothbury For all the copper. Sur. What, and turn that too ? Mam. Yes, and I'll purchase Devonshire and Cornwall, And make them perfect Indies ! You admire now ? Sur. No, faith. Mam. But when you see th...
Seite 98 - tis my outward soul, Viceroy to that, which then to heaven being gone, Will leave this to control And keep these limbs, her provinces, from dissolution.
Seite 24 - 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...
Seite 139 - Come, then, the colours and the ground prepare; Dip in the rainbow, trick her off in air; Choose a firm cloud before it fall, and in it Catch, ere she change, the Cynthia of this minute.
Seite 98 - Gave to thy growth, thee to this height to raise, And now dost laugh and triumph on this bough, Little think'st thou That it will freeze anon, and that I shall Tomorrow find thee fall'n, or not at all.
Seite 46 - ... an affected simplicity, sometimes a presumptuous bluntness giveth it being : sometimes it riseth only from a lucky hitting upon what is strange : sometimes from a crafty wresting obvious matter to the purpose: often it consisteth in one knows not what, and springeth up one can hardly tell how. Its ways are unaccountable and inexplicable, being ansv/erable to the numberless rovings of fancy and windings of language.
Seite 105 - 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? Why so dull and mute, young sinner? Prithee, why so mute? Will, when speaking well can't win her, Saying nothing do 't?
Seite 238 - Dreams, books, are each a world ; and books, we know, Are a substantial world, both pure and good : Round these, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood, Our pastime and our happiness will grow.