Lectures on the English Comic WritersWiley and Putnam, 1845 - 222 pages |
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Page 11
... describe , carry the principle of callous indifference in a jest as far as it can go . The serious and mar- vellous stories in that work , which have been so much admired and so greedily read , appear to me monstrous and abortive fic ...
... describe , carry the principle of callous indifference in a jest as far as it can go . The serious and mar- vellous stories in that work , which have been so much admired and so greedily read , appear to me monstrous and abortive fic ...
Page 13
... describing the ludicrous as it is in itself ; wit is the exposing it , by comparing or contrasting it with something else . Humour is , as it were , the growth of nature and acci- dent ; wit is the product of art and fancy . Humour , as ...
... describing the ludicrous as it is in itself ; wit is the exposing it , by comparing or contrasting it with something else . Humour is , as it were , the growth of nature and acci- dent ; wit is the product of art and fancy . Humour , as ...
Page 14
... describes the serious seriously , it ceases to be wit , and passes into a different form . Wit is , in fact , the eloquence of in- difference , or an ingenious and striking exposition of those eva- nescent and glancing impressions of ...
... describes the serious seriously , it ceases to be wit , and passes into a different form . Wit is , in fact , the eloquence of in- difference , or an ingenious and striking exposition of those eva- nescent and glancing impressions of ...
Page 15
... describes . There cannot be a more witty , and at the same time degrading comparison , than that in the same author , of the Bear turning round the pole - star to a bear tied to a stake : - — " But now a sport more formidable Had raked ...
... describes . There cannot be a more witty , and at the same time degrading comparison , than that in the same author , of the Bear turning round the pole - star to a bear tied to a stake : - — " But now a sport more formidable Had raked ...
Page 41
... 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 that makes the miracle the greater . I do not , in short , consider comedy ...
... 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 that makes the miracle the greater . I do not , in short , consider comedy ...
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