Lectures on the English Comic WritersWiley and Putnam, 1845 - 222 Seiten |
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... true or false , and on their incon- sistency with certain acknowledged maxims , whether right or wrong . It is , therefore , a fair test , if not a philosophical or abstract truth , at least of what is truth according to public opinion ...
... true or false , and on their incon- sistency with certain acknowledged maxims , whether right or wrong . It is , therefore , a fair test , if not a philosophical or abstract truth , at least of what is truth according to public opinion ...
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... true and false wit . Mr. Addison , indeed , goes so far as to make it the exclu- sive test of true wit that it will bear translation into another lan- guage , that is to say , that it does not depend at all on the form of expression ...
... true and false wit . Mr. Addison , indeed , goes so far as to make it the exclu- sive test of true wit that it will bear translation into another lan- guage , that is to say , that it does not depend at all on the form of expression ...
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... true analogies . A slight cause is sufficient to produce a slight effect . To be in- different or sceptical , requires no effort ; to be enthusiastic and in earnest , requires a strong impulse , and collective power . Wit and humour ...
... true analogies . A slight cause is sufficient to produce a slight effect . To be in- different or sceptical , requires no effort ; to be enthusiastic and in earnest , requires a strong impulse , and collective power . Wit and humour ...
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... true spirit of original genius , is , in my judgment , the master - piece of Molière . The set speeches in the original play , it is true , would not be borne on the English stage , nor indeed on the French , but that they are carried ...
... true spirit of original genius , is , in my judgment , the master - piece of Molière . The set speeches in the original play , it is true , would not be borne on the English stage , nor indeed on the French , but that they are carried ...
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... true and false pretensions to taste and elegance ; its lash is laid on with the utmost severity , to drive before it the common herd of knaves and fools , not to lacerate and terrify the single stragglers . In a word , it is when folly ...
... true and false pretensions to taste and elegance ; its lash is laid on with the utmost severity , to drive before it the common herd of knaves and fools , not to lacerate and terrify the single stragglers . In a word , it is when folly ...
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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.