Lectures on the English Comic WritersWiley and Putnam, 1845 - 222 pagini |
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Pagina 8
... character strengthens the sense of the ludi- crous . Keeping in comic character is consistency in absurdity ; a determined and laudable attachment to the incongruous and singular . The regularity completes the contradiction ; for the ...
... character strengthens the sense of the ludi- crous . Keeping in comic character is consistency in absurdity ; a determined and laudable attachment to the incongruous and singular . The regularity completes the contradiction ; for the ...
Pagina 28
... character as a professed wit : the one is always contriving something to laugh at , the other is always laughing at nothing . An excess of levity is as impertinent as an excess of gravity . A character of this sort is well personified ...
... character as a professed wit : the one is always contriving something to laugh at , the other is always laughing at nothing . An excess of levity is as impertinent as an excess of gravity . A character of this sort is well personified ...
Pagina 29
... character , or common probability . The plots of several of them could not be carried on for a moment without a perfect collusion between the parties to wink at contradictions , and act in defiance of the evi- dence of their senses ...
... character , or common probability . The plots of several of them could not be carried on for a moment without a perfect collusion between the parties to wink at contradictions , and act in defiance of the evi- dence of their senses ...
Pagina 30
... characters , again , which Celimene gives of her female friends , near the opening of the play , are admirable satires ... character of Orgon is wonderful . This play is in one point of view invaluable , as a lasting monu- ment of the ...
... characters , again , which Celimene gives of her female friends , near the opening of the play , are admirable satires ... character of Orgon is wonderful . This play is in one point of view invaluable , as a lasting monu- ment of the ...
Pagina 34
... characters , the Timon of Athens or honest Iago , when we shall more than suc- ceed . He put his strength into his tragedies , and played with comedy . He was greatest in what was greatest ; and his forte was not trifling , according to ...
... characters , the Timon of Athens or honest Iago , when we shall more than suc- ceed . He put his strength into his tragedies , and played with comedy . He was greatest in what was greatest ; and his forte was not trifling , according to ...
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Pagina 7 - Never, lago. Like to the Pontic sea, Whose icy current and compulsive course Ne'er feels retiring ebb, but keeps due on To the Propontic and the Hellespont ; Even so my bloody thoughts, with violent pace, Shall ne'er look back, ne'er ebb to humble love. Till that a capable and wide revenge Swallow them up. — Now, by yond marble heaven, In the due reverence of a sacred vow {Kneels, I here engage my words.
Pagina 145 - I thought of Chatterton, the marvellous Boy, The sleepless Soul that perished in his pride; Of Him who walked in glory and in joy Following his plough, along the mountain-side : By our own spirits are we deified : We poets in our youth begin in gladness; But thereof come in the end despondency and madness.
Pagina 5 - The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven ; And, as imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing A local habitation, and a name. Such tricks hath strong imagination, That, if it would but apprehend some joy, It comprehends some bringer of that joy; Or, in the night, imagining some fear, How easy is a bush supposed a bear ! Hip.
Pagina 107 - Attract his slender feet. The foodless wilds Pour forth their brown inhabitants. The hare, Though timorous of heart, and hard beset By death in various forms, dark snares, and dogs, And more unpitying men, the garden seeks, Urged on by fearless want.
Pagina 73 - From Heaven they fabled, thrown by angry Jove Sheer o'er the crystal battlements: from morn To noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve, A summer's day; and with the setting sun Dropt from the zenith, like a falling star, On Lemnos, the Aegean isle.
Pagina 88 - Tis with our judgments as our watches, none Go just alike, yet each believes his own.
Pagina 208 - Two of far nobler shape, erect and tall, Godlike erect, with native honour clad In naked majesty, seem'd lords of all ; And worthy seem'd : for in their looks divine The image of their glorious Maker shone, Truth, wisdom, sanctitude severe and pure, Severe, but in true filial freedom...
Pagina 6 - O now, for ever, Farewell the tranquil mind ! Farewell content ! Farewell the plumed troop, and the big wars, That make ambition virtue ! O, farewell ! Farewell the neighing steed, and the shrill trump, The spirit-stirring drum, the ear-piercing fife, The royal banner ; and all quality. Pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious war...
Pagina 62 - 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?
Pagina 205 - And purple all the ground with vernal flowers. Bring the rathe primrose that forsaken dies, The tufted crow-toe and pale jessamine, The white pink, and the pansy...