Lectures on the English Comic WritersWiley and Putnam, 1845 - 222 страници |
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... admirable ; and Joseph Surface's cant maxims of morality , when once disarmed of their power to do hurt , become suffi- ciently ludicrous . We laugh at that in others which is a se- rious matter to ourselves ; because our self - love is ...
... admirable ; and Joseph Surface's cant maxims of morality , when once disarmed of their power to do hurt , become suffi- ciently ludicrous . We laugh at that in others which is a se- rious matter to ourselves ; because our self - love is ...
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... admiration or wean our affections from that which is lofty and impressive , instead of producing a more intense admiration and exalted passion , as poetry does . Wit may sometimes , in- deed , be shown in compliments as well as satire ...
... admiration or wean our affections from that which is lofty and impressive , instead of producing a more intense admiration and exalted passion , as poetry does . Wit may sometimes , in- deed , be shown in compliments as well as satire ...
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... , they are uniformly blemishes . It requires something more solid and substantial to raise admiration or passion . The general forms and aggregate masses of our ideas must be brought more 22 [ LECTURE I. ON WIT AND HUMOUR .
... , they are uniformly blemishes . It requires something more solid and substantial to raise admiration or passion . The general forms and aggregate masses of our ideas must be brought more 22 [ LECTURE I. ON WIT AND HUMOUR .
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... admiration of the sublime or beautiful . Reading the finest passage in Milton's ' Paradise Lost ' in a false tone , will make it seem insipid and absurd . The cavilling at , or in- vidiously pointing out , a few slips of the pen , will ...
... admiration of the sublime or beautiful . Reading the finest passage in Milton's ' Paradise Lost ' in a false tone , will make it seem insipid and absurd . The cavilling at , or in- vidiously pointing out , a few slips of the pen , will ...
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... admiration , as signifying a nimble sagacity of apprehen- sion , a special felicity of invention , a vivacity of spirit , and reach of wit more than vulgar : it seeming to argue a rare quickness of parts , that one can fetch in remote ...
... admiration , as signifying a nimble sagacity of apprehen- sion , a special felicity of invention , a vivacity of spirit , and reach of wit more than vulgar : it seeming to argue a rare quickness of parts , that one can fetch in remote ...
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Страница 37 - tis certain ; very sure, very sure : death, as the Psalmist saith, is certain to all ; all shall die.
Страница 24 - The hedge-sparrow fed the cuckoo so long, That it had its head bit off by its young.
Страница 72 - ... 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?
Страница 69 - 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.
Страница 68 - tis some bravery. That since you would save none of me, I bury some of you. The Blossom Little thinkst thou, poor flower. Whom I have watched six or seven days, And seen thy birth, and seen what every hour Gave to thy growth, thee to this height to raise, And now dost laugh and triumph on this bough, Little thinkst thou That it will freeze anon, and that I shall Tomorrow find thee fall'n, or not at all...
Страница 14 - 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...
Страница 18 - Wit lying most in the assemblage of Ideas, and putting those together with quickness and variety, wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant Pictures, and agreeable Visions in the fancy...
Страница 62 - Do we succeed? Is our day come? and holds it? Face. The evening will set red upon you, sir; You have colour for it, crimson : the red ferment Has done, his office; three hours hence prepare you To see projection. Mam. Pertinax, my Surly, Again I say to thee aloud, Be rich. This day thou shalt have ingots; and to-morrow Give lords th
Страница 77 - Drinks up the sea, and when he 's done. The Moon and Stars drink up the Sun: They drink and dance by their own light, They drink and revel all the night: Nothing in Nature 's sober found, But an eternal health goes round.
Страница 94 - Beauty the lover's gift! Lord, what is a lover, that it can give? Why, one makes lovers as fast as one pleases, and they live as long as one pleases, and they die as soon as one pleases; and then, if one pleases, one makes more.