Lectures on the English Comic WritersWiley and Putnam, 1845 - 222 pages |
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... vice and infirmity in our nature , and play upon it with periodical success . The meanest weapons are strong enough for this kind of warfare , and the meanest hands can wield them . Spleen can subsist on any kind of food . The shadow of ...
... vice and infirmity in our nature , and play upon it with periodical success . The meanest weapons are strong enough for this kind of warfare , and the meanest hands can wield them . Spleen can subsist on any kind of food . The shadow of ...
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... Vice and virtue were to him as plain as any objects of sense . He saw in man a talking , ab- surd , obstinate , proud , angry animal ; and clothed these abstrac- tions with wings , or a beak , or tail , or claws , or long ears , as they ...
... Vice and virtue were to him as plain as any objects of sense . He saw in man a talking , ab- surd , obstinate , proud , angry animal ; and clothed these abstrac- tions with wings , or a beak , or tail , or claws , or long ears , as they ...
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William Hazlitt. have with any member of the Society for the Suppression of Vice , and would by no means assist to deliver the one into the hands of the other . Those who cannot be persuaded to draw a veil over the foibles of ideal ...
William Hazlitt. have with any member of the Society for the Suppression of Vice , and would by no means assist to deliver the one into the hands of the other . Those who cannot be persuaded to draw a veil over the foibles of ideal ...
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... vice . The fault , then , of Shakspeare's comic Muse is , in my opinion , that it is too good - natured and magnanimous . It mounts above its quarry . It is " apprehensive , quick , forgetive , full of nimble , fiery , and delectable ...
... vice . The fault , then , of Shakspeare's comic Muse is , in my opinion , that it is too good - natured and magnanimous . It mounts above its quarry . It is " apprehensive , quick , forgetive , full of nimble , fiery , and delectable ...
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... vice with meretricious lus- tre . I conceive , therefore , that the golden period of our comedy was just after the age of Charles II . , when the town first be- came tainted with the affectation of the manners and conversa- tion of ...
... vice with meretricious lus- tre . I conceive , therefore , that the golden period of our comedy was just after the age of Charles II . , when the town first be- came tainted with the affectation of the manners and conversa- tion of ...
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