Lectures on the English Comic WritersWiley and Putnam, 1845 - 222 страници |
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... person it is particu- larly fond of , and does not find that person there , its countenance suddenly falls , its lips begin to quiver , its cheek turns pale , its eye glistens , and it vents its little sorrow ( grown too big to be ...
... person it is particu- larly fond of , and does not find that person there , its countenance suddenly falls , its lips begin to quiver , its cheek turns pale , its eye glistens , and it vents its little sorrow ( grown too big to be ...
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... person because they never saw him before . Any one dressed in the height of the fashion , or quite out of it , is equally an object of ridicule . One rich source of the ludicrous is distress with which we cannot sympathise from its ...
... person because they never saw him before . Any one dressed in the height of the fashion , or quite out of it , is equally an object of ridicule . One rich source of the ludicrous is distress with which we cannot sympathise from its ...
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... person means one thing , and another is aiming at something else , are another great source of comic humour , on the same principle of ambi- guity and contrast . There is a high - wrought instance of this in the dialogue be- tween ...
... person means one thing , and another is aiming at something else , are another great source of comic humour , on the same principle of ambi- guity and contrast . There is a high - wrought instance of this in the dialogue be- tween ...
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... person himself of what he is about , or of what others think of him , is also a great heightener of the sense of absurdity . It makes it come the fuller home upon us from his insensibility to it . His simplicity sets off the satire ...
... person himself of what he is about , or of what others think of him , is also a great heightener of the sense of absurdity . It makes it come the fuller home upon us from his insensibility to it . His simplicity sets off the satire ...
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... person happening to come up , and observing how saucy the fellow was , said to the gentleman , " Sir , if you will lend me your cane for a moment , I'll give him a good threshing for his impertinence . " The old gentleman , smiling at ...
... person happening to come up , and observing how saucy the fellow was , said to the gentleman , " Sir , if you will lend me your cane for a moment , I'll give him a good threshing for his impertinence . " The old gentleman , smiling at ...
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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.