Lectures on the English Comic WritersWiley and Putnam, 1845 - 222 Seiten |
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... truth of absurdity to itself . That reason and good sense should be consistent , is not wonderful : but that caprice , and whim , and fantastical prejudice , should be uniform and infallible in their results , is the surprising thing ...
... truth of absurdity to itself . That reason and good sense should be consistent , is not wonderful : but that caprice , and whim , and fantastical prejudice , should be uniform and infallible in their results , is the surprising thing ...
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... mind to ; " but the wit consists in the truth of the character , and in the hap- py exposure of the ludicrous contradiction between the pretext and the practice ; between their lenity towards their own 16 [ LECTURE 1 . ON WIT AND HUMOUR .
... mind to ; " but the wit consists in the truth of the character , and in the hap- py exposure of the ludicrous contradiction between the pretext and the practice ; between their lenity towards their own 16 [ LECTURE 1 . ON WIT AND HUMOUR .
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... truth ( if truth it were ) by a fortuitous concourse of letters of the alphabet , jumping in " foregone conclusion , " but there was no proof of the thing , unless it was self - evident . And , indeed , this may be considered as the ...
... truth ( if truth it were ) by a fortuitous concourse of letters of the alphabet , jumping in " foregone conclusion , " but there was no proof of the thing , unless it was self - evident . And , indeed , this may be considered as the ...
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... truth , at least of what is truth according to public opinion and common sense ; for it can only expose to instanta- neous contempt that which is condemned by public opinion , and is hostile to the common sense of mankind . Or , to put ...
... truth , at least of what is truth according to public opinion and common sense ; for it can only expose to instanta- neous contempt that which is condemned by public opinion , and is hostile to the common sense of mankind . Or , to put ...
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... less surprising , in proportion as the thought suggested is more com- plete and satisfactory , from its being inherent in the nature of the things themselves . Hæret lateri lethalis arundo . Truth LECTURE 1. ] 21 ON WIT AND HUMOUR .
... less surprising , in proportion as the thought suggested is more com- plete and satisfactory , from its being inherent in the nature of the things themselves . Hæret lateri lethalis arundo . Truth LECTURE 1. ] 21 ON WIT AND HUMOUR .
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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...