Lectures on the English Comic WritersWiley and Putnam, 1845 - 222 páginas |
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... looks , and actions . Of these different kinds or degrees of the laughable , the first is the most shallow and short - lived ; for the instant the imme- diate surprise of a thing's merely happening one way or ON WIT AND HUMOUR ...
... looks , and actions . Of these different kinds or degrees of the laughable , the first is the most shallow and short - lived ; for the instant the imme- diate surprise of a thing's merely happening one way or ON WIT AND HUMOUR ...
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... look grave at , is almost always a signal for laughter outright : we can hardly keep our countenance at a sermon , a funeral , or a wedding . What an excellent old custom was that of throwing the stocking ! What a deal of innocent mirth ...
... look grave at , is almost always a signal for laughter outright : we can hardly keep our countenance at a sermon , a funeral , or a wedding . What an excellent old custom was that of throwing the stocking ! What a deal of innocent mirth ...
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... look of perfect satisfaction and composure , as if nothing of the sort had happened to him , the idea of his late disaster and present self - complacency struck him so powerfully , that , unable to resist the impulse , he flung himself ...
... look of perfect satisfaction and composure , as if nothing of the sort had happened to him , the idea of his late disaster and present self - complacency struck him so powerfully , that , unable to resist the impulse , he flung himself ...
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... looks of alarm and petrified astonishment ; the foppish affectation and easy confidence of the happy man ; the dress . the airs , the languor , the scorn , and indifference of the fine lady ; the bustle , pertness , loquaciousness , and ...
... looks of alarm and petrified astonishment ; the foppish affectation and easy confidence of the happy man ; the dress . the airs , the languor , the scorn , and indifference of the fine lady ; the bustle , pertness , loquaciousness , and ...
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... look less , the mean more light and worthless ; or to divert our admiration or wean our affections from that which is lofty and impressive , instead of producing a more intense admiration and exalted passion , as poetry does . Wit may ...
... look less , the mean more light and worthless ; or to divert our admiration or wean our affections from that which is lofty and impressive , instead of producing a more intense admiration and exalted passion , as poetry does . Wit may ...
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Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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?
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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!
Página 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.