Lectures on the English Comic WritersWiley and Putnam, 1845 - 222 страници |
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... vice and infirmity in our nature , and play upon it with periodical The meanest weapons are strong enough for this kind of warfare , and the meanest hands can wield them . Spleen can subsist on any kind of food . The shadow of a doubt ...
... vice and infirmity in our nature , and play upon it with periodical The meanest weapons are strong enough for this kind of warfare , and the meanest hands can wield them . Spleen can subsist on any kind of food . The shadow of a doubt ...
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... Vice and virtue were to him as plain as any objects of sense . He saw in man a talking , ab- surd , obstinate , proud , angry animal ; and clothed these abstrac- tions with wings , or a beak , or tail , or claws , or long ears , as they ...
... Vice and virtue were to him as plain as any objects of sense . He saw in man a talking , ab- surd , obstinate , proud , angry animal ; and clothed these abstrac- tions with wings , or a beak , or tail , or claws , or long ears , as they ...
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William Hazlitt. have with any member of the Society for the Suppression of Vice , and would by no means assist to deliver the one into the hands of the other . Those who cannot be persuaded to draw a veil over the foibles of ideal ...
William Hazlitt. have with any member of the Society for the Suppression of Vice , and would by no means assist to deliver the one into the hands of the other . Those who cannot be persuaded to draw a veil over the foibles of ideal ...
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... vice . The fault , then , of Shakspeare's comic Muse is , in my opinion , that it is too good - natured and magnanimous . It mounts above its quarry . It is " apprehensive , quick , forgetive , full of nimble , fiery , and delectable ...
... vice . The fault , then , of Shakspeare's comic Muse is , in my opinion , that it is too good - natured and magnanimous . It mounts above its quarry . It is " apprehensive , quick , forgetive , full of nimble , fiery , and delectable ...
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... vice with meretricious lus- I conceive , therefore , that the golden period of our comedy was just after the age of Charles II . , when the town first be- came tainted with the affectation of the manners and conversa- tion of ...
... vice with meretricious lus- I conceive , therefore , that the golden period of our comedy was just after the age of Charles II . , when the town first be- came tainted with the affectation of the manners and conversa- tion of ...
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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.