Lectures on the English Comic WritersWiley and Putnam, 1845 - 222 pagini |
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Pagina 28
... refinement of perception , but rather a looseness and flippancy of mind and temper , which prevents the individual from connecting any two ideas steadily or consistently together . It is owing to a natural crudity and precipitateness of ...
... refinement of perception , but rather a looseness and flippancy of mind and temper , which prevents the individual from connecting any two ideas steadily or consistently together . It is owing to a natural crudity and precipitateness of ...
Pagina 29
... refinement of 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 ...
... refinement of 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 ...
Pagina 80
... Refinement acts as a foil to affecta- tion , and affectation to ignorance . Sentence after sentence tells . We don't know which to admire most , the observation or the answer to it . We would give our fingers to be able to talk so ...
... Refinement acts as a foil to affecta- tion , and affectation to ignorance . Sentence after sentence tells . We don't know which to admire most , the observation or the answer to it . We would give our fingers to be able to talk so ...
Pagina 81
... refinement , reminds one exactly of Collins's description of wit as opposed to humour , " Whose jewels in his crisped hair Are placed each other's light to share . ” This style , Sheridan will not bear a comparison with him in the ...
... refinement , reminds one exactly of Collins's description of wit as opposed to humour , " Whose jewels in his crisped hair Are placed each other's light to share . ” This style , Sheridan will not bear a comparison with him in the ...
Pagina 86
... refinement of the chief characters in the play . The description of Lady Wish fort's face is a perfect piece of painting . The force of style in this author at times amounts to poetry . Waitwell , who personates Sir Row- land , and ...
... refinement of the chief characters in the play . The description of Lady Wish fort's face is a perfect piece of painting . The force of style in this author at times amounts to poetry . Waitwell , who personates Sir Row- land , and ...
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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.