Lectures on the English Comic WritersWiley and Putnam, 1845 - 222 pages |
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Page 28
... refinement of perception , but rather a looseness and flippancy of mind and temper , which prevents the individual from connecting any two ideas steadily or consistently together . It is owing to a natural crudity and precipitateness of ...
... refinement of perception , but rather a looseness and flippancy of mind and temper , which prevents the individual from connecting any two ideas steadily or consistently together . It is owing to a natural crudity and precipitateness of ...
Page 29
... refinement of character , or common probability . The plots of several of them could not be carried on for a moment without a perfect collusion between the parties to wink at contradictions , and act in defiance of the evi- dence of ...
... refinement of character , or common probability . The plots of several of them could not be carried on for a moment without a perfect collusion between the parties to wink at contradictions , and act in defiance of the evi- dence of ...
Page 40
... refinements of romantic passion arise out of the ima- gination brooding over " airy nothing , " or over a favourite object , where " love's golden shaft hath killed the flock of all affections else : " whereas the refinements of this ...
... refinements of romantic passion arise out of the ima- gination brooding over " airy nothing , " or over a favourite object , where " love's golden shaft hath killed the flock of all affections else : " whereas the refinements of this ...
Page 80
... Refinement acts as a foil to affecta- tion , and affectation to ignorance . Sentence after sentence tells . We don't know which to admire most , the observation or the answer to it . We would give our fingers to be able to talk so ...
... Refinement acts as a foil to affecta- tion , and affectation to ignorance . Sentence after sentence tells . We don't know which to admire most , the observation or the answer to it . We would give our fingers to be able to talk so ...
Page 81
... refinement , reminds one exactly of Collins's description of wit as opposed to humour , " Whose jewels in his crisped hair Are placed each other's light to share . ” This style , Sheridan will not bear a comparison with him in the ...
... refinement , reminds one exactly of Collins's description of wit as opposed to humour , " Whose jewels in his crisped hair Are placed each other's light to share . ” This style , Sheridan will not bear a comparison with him in the ...
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absurdity admiration affectation amusing appearance artificial beauty Beggar's Opera Ben Jonson better blank verse Boccaccio character Chaucer circumstances comedy comic common critics delight describes Don Quixote double entendre dramatic elegance equal excellence face fancy feeling flowers folly genius Gil Blas give grace heart Hogarth Hudibras human humour idea imagination imitation instance interest kind Lady language laugh light lively look Lord Byron lover ludicrous Lycidas Lyrical Ballads manners Milton mind moral Muse nature never objects painted passion person picture play pleasure poem poet poetical poetry Pope prose reader refinement ridiculous satire scene School for Scandal seems sense sentiment Shakspeare Shakspeare's sort soul Spenser spirit story style sweet Tartuffe Tatler thee things thou thought tion Tom Jones truth turn verse vice whole wild words Wordsworth writer