Lectures on the English Comic WritersWiley and Putnam, 1845 - 222 страници |
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... tion , before it has had time to reconcile its feelings to the change of circumstances : while laughter may be defined to be the same sort of convulsive and involuntary movement , occasioned by mere surprise or contrast ( in the absence ...
... tion , before it has had time to reconcile its feelings to the change of circumstances : while laughter may be defined to be the same sort of convulsive and involuntary movement , occasioned by mere surprise or contrast ( in the absence ...
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... tion of ludicrous weakness in character , nothing is superior to the comic parts of the Arabian Nights ' Entertainments . ' To take only the set of stories of the Little Hunchback , who was choked with a bone , and the Barber of Bagdad ...
... tion of ludicrous weakness in character , nothing is superior to the comic parts of the Arabian Nights ' Entertainments . ' To take only the set of stories of the Little Hunchback , who was choked with a bone , and the Barber of Bagdad ...
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... tion of casual pain , but the pursuit of uncertain pleasure and idle gallantry . Half the business and gaiety of comedy turns upon this . Most of the adventures , difficulties , demurs , hair - breadth ' scapes , disguises , deceptions ...
... tion of casual pain , but the pursuit of uncertain pleasure and idle gallantry . Half the business and gaiety of comedy turns upon this . Most of the adventures , difficulties , demurs , hair - breadth ' scapes , disguises , deceptions ...
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... tion , that men who have a great deal of wit and prompt memories , have not always the clearest judgment or deepest reason . For wit lying mostly in the assemblage of ideas , and putting them together with quickness and va- riety ...
... tion , that men who have a great deal of wit and prompt memories , have not always the clearest judgment or deepest reason . For wit lying mostly in the assemblage of ideas , and putting them together with quickness and va- riety ...
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... tion of it , so that if the thing when once hinted is not clear in itself , the satire fails of its effect and falls to the ground . The sarcasm here glanced at the character of the new or old French noblesse may not be well - founded ...
... tion of it , so that if the thing when once hinted is not clear in itself , the satire fails of its effect and falls to the ground . The sarcasm here glanced at the character of the new or old French noblesse may not be well - founded ...
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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.