Lectures on the English Comic WritersWiley and Putnam, 1845 - 222 pagini |
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... appearances . If we hold a mask before our face , and ap- proach a child with this disguise on , it will at first , from the oddity and incongruity of the appearance , be inclined to laugh ; if we go nearer to it , steadily , and ...
... appearances . If we hold a mask before our face , and ap- proach a child with this disguise on , it will at first , from the oddity and incongruity of the appearance , be inclined to laugh ; if we go nearer to it , steadily , and ...
Pagina 8
... appearance and the reality , the suspense of belief , and the seeming incongruity , that gives point to the ridicule , and makes it enter the deeper when the first impression is overcome . Excessive im- pudence , as in the ' Liar ; ' or ...
... appearance and the reality , the suspense of belief , and the seeming incongruity , that gives point to the ridicule , and makes it enter the deeper when the first impression is overcome . Excessive im- pudence , as in the ' Liar ; ' or ...
Pagina 18
... appearance and reality , is common to wit and satire with judgment and reasoning , and certainly the comparing and connecting our ideas together is an essential part of reason and judgment , as well as of wit and least difference ...
... appearance and reality , is common to wit and satire with judgment and reasoning , and certainly the comparing and connecting our ideas together is an essential part of reason and judgment , as well as of wit and least difference ...
Pagina 34
... appearance in the ' Merry Wives of Windsor ' is not " a consummation devoutly to be wished , " for we do not take pleasure in the repeated triumphs over him . Mercutio's quips and banter upon his friends show amazing gaiety , frankness ...
... appearance in the ' Merry Wives of Windsor ' is not " a consummation devoutly to be wished , " for we do not take pleasure in the repeated triumphs over him . Mercutio's quips and banter upon his friends show amazing gaiety , frankness ...
Pagina 50
... appearance and behaviour , they have a very droll and even picturesque effect when acted . It seems a revival of the dead . We believe in their existence when we see them . As an ex- ample of the power of the stage in giving reality and ...
... appearance and behaviour , they have a very droll and even picturesque effect when acted . It seems a revival of the dead . We believe in their existence when we see them . As an ex- ample of the power of the stage in giving reality and ...
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absurdity admiration affectation appearance artificial beauty Beggar's Opera Ben Jonson blank verse Boccaccio character Chaucer circumstances comedy comic common critics delight describes Don Quixote double entendre dramatic elegance equal excellence face fancy feeling flowers folly genius Gil Blas give grace heart Hogarth Hudibras human humour idea imagination imitation instance interest kind Lady language laugh less light living look Lord Byron lover ludicrous Lycidas Lyrical Ballads manners Milton mind moral Muse nature never objects painted passion person picture play pleasure poem poet poetical poetry Pope prose reader reason refinement ridiculous satire scene School for Scandal seems sense sentiment Shakspeare Shakspeare's sort soul Spenser spirit story style sweet Tartuffe Tatler thee things thou thought tion Tom Jones truth turn verse vice whole wild words Wordsworth writer
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Pagina 116 - The warbling woodland, the resounding shore, The pomp of groves, and garniture of fields; All that the genial ray of morning gilds, And all that echoes to the song of even, All that the mountain's sheltering bosom shields, And all the dread magnificence of heaven, O how canst thou renounce, and hope to be forgiven ! X.
Pagina 133 - At thirty man suspects himself a fool ; Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan ; At fifty chides his infamous delay, Pushes his prudent purpose to resolve; In all the magnanimity of thought Resolves and re-resolves; then dies the same.
Pagina 187 - But Nature, in due course of time, once more Shall here put on her beauty and her bloom. "She leaves these objects to a slow decay, That what we are, and have been, may be known ; But at the coming of the milder day These monuments shall all be overgrown.
Pagina 74 - What though the field be lost? All is not lost; the unconquerable will, And study of revenge, immortal hate, And courage never to submit or yield: And what is else not to be overcome?
Pagina 132 - tis madness to defer: Next day the fatal precedent will plead ; Thus on, till wisdom is push'd out of life. Procrastination is the thief of time ; Year after year it steals, till all are fled, And to the mercies of a moment leaves The vast concerns of an eternal scene.
Pagina 91 - Villiers lies — alas ! how changed from him, That life of pleasure, and that soul of whim ! Gallant and gay, in Cliveden's proud alcove, The bower of wanton Shrewsbury and love ; Or just as gay at council, in a ring Of mimic statesmen and their merry King.
Pagina 189 - The heavens themselves, the planets, and this centre, Observe degree, priority, and place, Insisture, course, proportion, season, form, Office, and custom, in all line of order...
Pagina 96 - By a daisy whose leaves spread Shut when Titan goes to bed ; Or a shady bush or tree, She could more infuse in me, Than all Nature's beauties can, In some other wiser man.
Pagina 158 - Kate soon will be a woefu' woman! Now, do thy speedy utmost, Meg, And win the key-stane of the brig; There, at them thou thy tail may toss, A running stream they dare na cross! But ere the key-stane she could make, The fient a tail she had to shake: For Nannie, far before the rest, Hard upon noble Maggie prest, And flew at Tam wi' furious ettle; But little wist she Maggie's mettle!
Pagina 193 - Alas! they had been friends in youth; But whispering tongues can poison truth; And constancy lives in realms above; And life is thorny; and youth is vain; And to be wroth with one we love Doth work like madness in the brain.