Lectures on the English Comic Writers: Delivered at the Surry InstitutionTaylor and Hessey, 1819 - Всего страниц: 343 |
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... pleasure expatiate on the philosophy that informs , and the learning that enriches , many portions of these invaluable compilations . They could refer with proud satisfaction to one at least , whose object it is , on a philosophical ...
... pleasure expatiate on the philosophy that informs , and the learning that enriches , many portions of these invaluable compilations . They could refer with proud satisfaction to one at least , whose object it is , on a philosophical ...
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... pleasure instead of pain from the farce of life which is played before us , and which discomposes our gravity as often as it fails to move our anger or our pity ! Tears may be considered as the natural and in- voluntary resource of the ...
... pleasure instead of pain from the farce of life which is played before us , and which discomposes our gravity as often as it fails to move our anger or our pity ! Tears may be considered as the natural and in- voluntary resource of the ...
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... into a lively sense of pleasure , and leaves no time nor incli- nation for painful reflections . The essence of the laughable then is the incon- gruous , the disconnecting one idea from another , or 6 ON WIT AND HUMOUR .
... into a lively sense of pleasure , and leaves no time nor incli- nation for painful reflections . The essence of the laughable then is the incon- gruous , the disconnecting one idea from another , or 6 ON WIT AND HUMOUR .
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... pleasure from death . The strongest instances of effectual and harrowing imagination , are in the story of Amine and her three sisters , whom she led by her side as a leash of hounds , and of the goul who nib- bled grains of rice for ...
... pleasure from death . The strongest instances of effectual and harrowing imagination , are in the story of Amine and her three sisters , whom she led by her side as a leash of hounds , and of the goul who nib- bled grains of rice for ...
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... pleasure consist , and which when attained , and the equivoque_ is at an end , the curtain drops , and the play is over . All the attractions of a subject that can only be glanced at indirectly , that is a sort of for- bidden ground to ...
... pleasure consist , and which when attained , and the equivoque_ is at an end , the curtain drops , and the play is over . All the attractions of a subject that can only be glanced at indirectly , that is a sort of for- bidden ground to ...
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Lectures on the English Comic Writers: Delivered at the Surry Institution William Hazlitt Полный просмотр - 1819 |
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Стр. 41 - The hedge-sparrow fed the cuckoo so long, That it had its head bit off by its young.
Стр. 45 - ... 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...
Стр. 86 - I'll change All that is metal, in my house, to gold : And early in the morning will I send To all the plumbers and the pewterers, And buy their tin and lead up ; and to Lothbury For all the copper. Sur. What, and turn that too ? Mam. Yes, and I'll purchase Devonshire and Cornwall, And make them perfect Indies ! You admire now ? Sur. No, faith. Mam. But when you see th...
Стр. 98 - 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.
Стр. 24 - 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...
Стр. 139 - Come, then, the colours and the ground prepare; Dip in the rainbow, trick her off in air; Choose a firm cloud before it fall, and in it Catch, ere she change, the Cynthia of this minute.
Стр. 98 - Gave to thy growth, thee to this height to raise, And now dost laugh and triumph on this bough, Little think'st thou That it will freeze anon, and that I shall Tomorrow find thee fall'n, or not at all.
Стр. 46 - ... an affected simplicity, sometimes a presumptuous bluntness giveth it being : sometimes it riseth only from a lucky hitting upon what is strange : sometimes from a crafty wresting obvious matter to the purpose: often it consisteth in one knows not what, and springeth up one can hardly tell how. Its ways are unaccountable and inexplicable, being ansv/erable to the numberless rovings of fancy and windings of language.
Стр. 105 - 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? Why so dull and mute, young sinner? Prithee, why so mute? Will, when speaking well can't win her, Saying nothing do 't?
Стр. 238 - Dreams, books, are each a world ; and books, we know, Are a substantial world, both pure and good : Round these, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood, Our pastime and our happiness will grow.