Lectures on the English Comic WritersWiley and Putnam, 1845 - Всего страниц: 222 |
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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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Стр. 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.
Стр. 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.
Стр. 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.
Стр. 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?
Стр. 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.
Стр. 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.
Стр. 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...
Стр. 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.
Стр. 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!
Стр. 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.