Lectures on the English Comic Writers: Delivered at the Surry InstitutionTaylor and Hessey, 1819 - 343 Seiten |
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... thought of ; it fixes the maximum of littleness and insig- nificance : but it is not by likeness to any thing else that it does this , but by literally taking the lowest possible duration of ephemeral reputation , marking it ( as with a ...
... thought of ; it fixes the maximum of littleness and insig- nificance : but it is not by likeness to any thing else that it does this , but by literally taking the lowest possible duration of ephemeral reputation , marking it ( as with a ...
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... the common sense of mankind . Or to put it dif ferently , it is the test of the quantity of truth that there is in our favourite prejudices . - To shew how D nearly allied wit is thought to be to truth , ON WIT AND HUMOUR . 33.
... the common sense of mankind . Or to put it dif ferently , it is the test of the quantity of truth that there is in our favourite prejudices . - To shew how D nearly allied wit is thought to be to truth , ON WIT AND HUMOUR . 33.
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Delivered at the Surry Institution William Hazlitt. nearly allied wit is thought to be to truth , it is not unusual to say of any person- " Such a one is a man of sense , for though he said nothing , he laughed in the right place ...
Delivered at the Surry Institution William Hazlitt. nearly allied wit is thought to be to truth , it is not unusual to say of any person- " Such a one is a man of sense , for though he said nothing , he laughed in the right place ...
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... thoughts ; by instilling gaiety and airiness of spirit ; by provoking to such dispositions of spirit , in way of emulation or complaisance , and by sea- soning matter , otherwise distasteful or insipid , with an unusual and thence ...
... thoughts ; by instilling gaiety and airiness of spirit ; by provoking to such dispositions of spirit , in way of emulation or complaisance , and by sea- soning matter , otherwise distasteful or insipid , with an unusual and thence ...
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... thought- less , who is surprised at every thing he sees ; or wonderfully conceited , who expects every thing to Clowns conform to his standard of propriety . and idiots laugh on all occasions ; and the com- mon failing of wishing to be ...
... thought- less , who is surprised at every thing he sees ; or wonderfully conceited , who expects every thing to Clowns conform to his standard of propriety . and idiots laugh on all occasions ; and the com- mon failing of wishing to be ...
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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.