Lectures on the English Comic WritersWiley and Putnam, 1845 - 222 Seiten |
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... imitation of the natural or acquired ab- surdities of mankind , or of the ludicrous in accident , situation , and character ; wit is the illustrating and heightening the sense of that absurdity by some sudden and unexpected likeness or ...
... imitation of the natural or acquired ab- surdities of mankind , or of the ludicrous in accident , situation , and character ; wit is the illustrating and heightening the sense of that absurdity by some sudden and unexpected likeness or ...
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... imitate humanity most abominably , " without laughing immoderately ? We overlook the farce and mummery of human life in little , and for nothing ; and what is still better , it costs them who have to play in it nothing . We place the ...
... imitate humanity most abominably , " without laughing immoderately ? We overlook the farce and mummery of human life in little , and for nothing ; and what is still better , it costs them who have to play in it nothing . We place the ...
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... imitation and custom . Shakspeare takes his groundwork in individual character and the manners of his age , and ... imitations of her , and he appears to re- ceive her bounty like an alms . His works read like transla- tions , from a ...
... imitation and custom . Shakspeare takes his groundwork in individual character and the manners of his age , and ... imitations of her , and he appears to re- ceive her bounty like an alms . His works read like transla- tions , from a ...
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... imitations . Sir John Davies is the author of a poem on the Soul , and of one on Dancing . In both he shows great ingenuity , and some- times terseness and vigour . In the last of these two poems his fancy pirouettes in a very lively ...
... imitations . Sir John Davies is the author of a poem on the Soul , and of one on Dancing . In both he shows great ingenuity , and some- times terseness and vigour . In the last of these two poems his fancy pirouettes in a very lively ...
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... imitations of them in Butler . He fulfils every one of Barrow's conditions of wit , which I have enumerated in the first Lecture . He makes you laugh or smile by comparing the court . * " And have not two saints power to use A greater ...
... imitations of them in Butler . He fulfils every one of Barrow's conditions of wit , which I have enumerated in the first Lecture . He makes you laugh or smile by comparing the court . * " And have not two saints power to use A greater ...
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absurdity admirable affectation amusing appearance beauty Ben Jonson Brass Caleb Williams character circumstances comedy comic writer common Congreve Conscious Lovers delightful Dick Don Quixote double entendre dramatic dress elegance equally excellence extravagance eyes face fancy farce feeling folly genius gentleman Gil Blas give grace heart Hogarth Hudibras human nature idea imagination imitation insipid instance interest invention Johnson kind Lady laugh laughter look Lord lover ludicrous Malaprop manners Millamant mind mistress moral novel object painted passion person piece play pleasure plot poet poetry pretensions reason refinement ridiculous satire scene School for Scandal seems sense sentiment serious Shakspeare sion Sir Andrew Ague-cheek sort Spectator spirit stage Stoops to Conquer story striking style Tartuffe Tatler thee things thought tion Tom Jones truth turn vice Volpone vulgar whole wife words Wycherley
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Seite 60 - 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 22 - The hedge-sparrow fed the cuckoo so long, That it had its head bit off by its young.
Seite 35 - tis certain ; very sure, very sure : death, as the Psalmist saith, is certain to all ; all shall die.
Seite 62 - Compar'd to that was next her chin (Some bee had stung it newly ;) But, Dick, her eyes so guard her face, I durst no more upon them gaze Than on the sun in July. Her mouth so small, when she does speak, Thou'dst swear her teeth her words did break, That they might passage get ; But she so handled still the matter, They came as good as ours, or better, And are not spent a whit.
Seite 14 - Compound for sins they are inclined to By damning those they have no mind to.
Seite 25 - ... expression ; sometimes it lurketh under an odd similitude ; sometimes it is lodged in a sly question, in a smart answer, in a quirkish reason, in a shrewd intimation, in cunningly diverting or cleverly retorting an objection ; sometimes it is couched in a bold scheme of speech, in a tart irony, in a lusty hyperbole, in a startling metaphor, in a plausible reconciling of contradictions, or in acute nonsense...
Seite 57 - 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.
Seite 65 - Thou dost drink, and dance, and sing, Happier than the happiest king! All the fields which thou dost see, All the plants belong to thee; All that summer hours produce, Fertile made with early juice. Man for thee does sow and plough; Farmer he, and landlord thou!
Seite 12 - 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...
Seite 65 - 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.