Lectures on the English Comic WritersWiley and Putnam, 1845 - 222 Seiten |
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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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Seite 7 - Never, lago. Like to the Pontic sea, Whose icy current and compulsive course Ne'er feels retiring ebb, but keeps due on To the Propontic and the Hellespont ; Even so my bloody thoughts, with violent pace, Shall ne'er look back, ne'er ebb to humble love. Till that a capable and wide revenge Swallow them up. — Now, by yond marble heaven, In the due reverence of a sacred vow {Kneels, I here engage my words.
Seite 145 - I thought of Chatterton, the marvellous Boy, The sleepless Soul that perished in his pride; Of Him who walked in glory and in joy Following his plough, along the mountain-side : By our own spirits are we deified : We poets in our youth begin in gladness; But thereof come in the end despondency and madness.
Seite 5 - The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven ; And, as imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing A local habitation, and a name. Such tricks hath strong imagination, That, if it would but apprehend some joy, It comprehends some bringer of that joy; Or, in the night, imagining some fear, How easy is a bush supposed a bear ! Hip.
Seite 107 - Attract his slender feet. The foodless wilds Pour forth their brown inhabitants. The hare, Though timorous of heart, and hard beset By death in various forms, dark snares, and dogs, And more unpitying men, the garden seeks, Urged on by fearless want.
Seite 73 - From Heaven they fabled, thrown by angry Jove Sheer o'er the crystal battlements: from morn To noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve, A summer's day; and with the setting sun Dropt from the zenith, like a falling star, On Lemnos, the Aegean isle.
Seite 88 - Tis with our judgments as our watches, none Go just alike, yet each believes his own.
Seite 208 - Two of far nobler shape, erect and tall, Godlike erect, with native honour clad In naked majesty, seem'd lords of all ; And worthy seem'd : for in their looks divine The image of their glorious Maker shone, Truth, wisdom, sanctitude severe and pure, Severe, but in true filial freedom...
Seite 6 - O now, for ever, Farewell the tranquil mind ! Farewell content ! Farewell the plumed troop, and the big wars, That make ambition virtue ! O, farewell ! Farewell the neighing steed, and the shrill trump, The spirit-stirring drum, the ear-piercing fife, The royal banner ; and all quality. Pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious war...
Seite 62 - Why so pale and wan, fond lover? Prithee, why so pale? Will, when looking well can't move her. Looking ill prevail? Prithee, why so pale?
Seite 205 - And purple all the ground with vernal flowers. Bring the rathe primrose that forsaken dies, The tufted crow-toe and pale jessamine, The white pink, and the pansy...