Lectures on the English Comic WritersWiley and Putnam, 1845 - 222 Seiten |
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... observing how saucy the fellow was , said to the gentleman , " Sir , if you will lend me your cane for a moment , I'll give him a good threshing for his impertinence . " The old gentleman , smiling at the proposal , handed him his cane ...
... observing how saucy the fellow was , said to the gentleman , " Sir , if you will lend me your cane for a moment , I'll give him a good threshing for his impertinence . " The old gentleman , smiling at the proposal , handed him his cane ...
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... observe , that " certain modern poets would be read and admired when Homer and Virgil were forgotten , " made answer ... observing how tall his trees grew- " That they had nothing else to do , " — was a quaint mixture of wit and humour ...
... observe , that " certain modern poets would be read and admired when Homer and Virgil were forgotten , " made answer ... observing how tall his trees grew- " That they had nothing else to do , " — was a quaint mixture of wit and humour ...
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... observation , as in discriminating be- tween pretence and practice , between appearance and reality , is common to ... observe differently the things that pass through their imagina- tion . And whereas in this succession of thoughts ...
... observation , as in discriminating be- tween pretence and practice , between appearance and reality , is common to ... observe differently the things that pass through their imagina- tion . And whereas in this succession of thoughts ...
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... observation , which consists in the acute illustration of good sense and practical wisdom by means of some far - fetched conceit or quaint imagery . The mat- ter is sense , but the form is wit . Thus the lines in Pope- " Tis with our ...
... observation , which consists in the acute illustration of good sense and practical wisdom by means of some far - fetched conceit or quaint imagery . The mat- ter is sense , but the form is wit . Thus the lines in Pope- " Tis with our ...
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... observation , and an acquaintance with the modes of arti- ficial life , to describe it with the utmost possible grace and pre- cision . Congreve , who had every other opportunity , was but a young man when he wrote this character ; and ...
... observation , and an acquaintance with the modes of arti- ficial life , to describe it with the utmost possible grace and pre- cision . Congreve , who had every other opportunity , was but a young man when he wrote this character ; and ...
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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.