Lectures on the English Comic WritersWiley and Putnam, 1845 - 222 Seiten |
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... things are , and what they ought to be . We weep at what thwarts or exceeds our desires in serious matters : we laugh at what only disappoints our expectations in trifles . We shed tears from sympathy with real and necessary distress ...
... things are , and what they ought to be . We weep at what thwarts or exceeds our desires in serious matters : we laugh at what only disappoints our expectations in trifles . We shed tears from sympathy with real and necessary distress ...
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... things . Sir Thomas More jested with his executioner : Rabelais and Wycher- ley both died with a bon - mot in their mouths . Misunderstandings ( malentendus , ) where one person means one thing , and another is aiming at something else ...
... things . Sir Thomas More jested with his executioner : Rabelais and Wycher- ley both died with a bon - mot in their mouths . Misunderstandings ( malentendus , ) where one person means one thing , and another is aiming at something else ...
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... thing else that it does this , but by literally taking the lowest possible duration of ephemeral reputation , marking ... things so as to make pleasant pictures in the fancy , while judgment and reason , according to him , lie the clean ...
... thing else that it does this , but by literally taking the lowest possible duration of ephemeral reputation , marking ... things so as to make pleasant pictures in the fancy , while judgment and reason , according to him , lie the clean ...
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... thing for another . " ( Essay , vol . i , p . 143. ) This definition , such as it is , Mr. Locke took without ... things they think on , but either in what they be like one another , or in what they be unlike , those that observe ...
... thing for another . " ( Essay , vol . i , p . 143. ) This definition , such as it is , Mr. Locke took without ... things they think on , but either in what they be like one another , or in what they be unlike , those that observe ...
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... thing to do , or at least implies no necessary connection with the nature of the things , which are forced into a seeming analogy by a play upon words , or some irrelevant conceit , as in puns , riddles , alliteration , & c . The jest ...
... thing to do , or at least implies no necessary connection with the nature of the things , which are forced into a seeming analogy by a play upon words , or some irrelevant conceit , as in puns , riddles , alliteration , & c . The jest ...
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Seite 116 - The warbling woodland, the resounding shore, The pomp of groves, and garniture of fields; All that the genial ray of morning gilds, And all that echoes to the song of even, All that the mountain's sheltering bosom shields, And all the dread magnificence of heaven, O how canst thou renounce, and hope to be forgiven ! X.
Seite 133 - At thirty man suspects himself a fool ; Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan ; At fifty chides his infamous delay, Pushes his prudent purpose to resolve; In all the magnanimity of thought Resolves and re-resolves; then dies the same.
Seite 187 - But Nature, in due course of time, once more Shall here put on her beauty and her bloom. "She leaves these objects to a slow decay, That what we are, and have been, may be known ; But at the coming of the milder day These monuments shall all be overgrown.
Seite 74 - What though the field be lost? All is not lost; the unconquerable will, And study of revenge, immortal hate, And courage never to submit or yield: And what is else not to be overcome?
Seite 132 - tis madness to defer: Next day the fatal precedent will plead ; Thus on, till wisdom is push'd out of life. Procrastination is the thief of time ; Year after year it steals, till all are fled, And to the mercies of a moment leaves The vast concerns of an eternal scene.
Seite 91 - Villiers lies — alas ! how changed from him, That life of pleasure, and that soul of whim ! Gallant and gay, in Cliveden's proud alcove, The bower of wanton Shrewsbury and love ; Or just as gay at council, in a ring Of mimic statesmen and their merry King.
Seite 189 - The heavens themselves, the planets, and this centre, Observe degree, priority, and place, Insisture, course, proportion, season, form, Office, and custom, in all line of order...
Seite 96 - By a daisy whose leaves spread Shut when Titan goes to bed ; Or a shady bush or tree, She could more infuse in me, Than all Nature's beauties can, In some other wiser man.
Seite 158 - Kate soon will be a woefu' woman! Now, do thy speedy utmost, Meg, And win the key-stane of the brig; There, at them thou thy tail may toss, A running stream they dare na cross! But ere the key-stane she could make, The fient a tail she had to shake: For Nannie, far before the rest, Hard upon noble Maggie prest, And flew at Tam wi' furious ettle; But little wist she Maggie's mettle!
Seite 193 - Alas! they had been friends in youth; But whispering tongues can poison truth; And constancy lives in realms above; And life is thorny; and youth is vain; And to be wroth with one we love Doth work like madness in the brain.